For hip-hop fans, the mixtape download service Datpiff was a necessity as much as a tool. At a time where the dynamics of the game were changing in the corporate world – Jay-Z literally became an ...

Assata Shakur, who died last week while in exile in Cuba, defined what it meant to stand on business. For the most part, this is how mixtapes function now. And mixtapes are still a crucial tool, even ...

Though this is a major win for Wayne fans, the release only features 12 tracks rather than 21. Immediately after it became available to stream, fans began sharing how upset they were that the entire ...

Lil Wayne owns the distinction of being one of the modern era’s top studio rats, and his prolific mixtape releases from the prior decade and the early portion of the current one proved that. No ...

Prolific and influential Berkeley rapper Lil B celebrates his birthday with the release of Black Ken. The much anticipated project, which runs 27 tracks long, was leaked to DatPiff on Aug. 16, a day ...