Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...
Before Apple Music and Spotify, there was a period when many rap fans listened to their favorite artists’ music via Datpiff. The 18-year-old audio platform became the unofficial home of Hip Hop ...
Beloved mixtape service DatPiff is reinventing by pairing with Archive.com to make past music accessible. DatPiff is rolling out its “next generation.” After the mixtape service announced last month ...
Online mixtape distribution platform DatPiff has put rumours of its demise to rest, assuring listeners, "we're still here." On Monday evening (March 13), a post in subreddit r/hiphop101 claimed that ...
Fans were holding a funeral for legendary mixtape platform Datpiff a little bit too soon. Fans noticed the site was down, leading to rumors that the mixtape hub had run its course. Hitting Twitter, ...
Decades after they helped grow hip-hop into mainstream culture, mixtapes are now the raw material in a number of apps and websites that do not pay record labels or artists any money. DatPiff If you ...
Long before Spotify algorithms and Apple Music playlists dictated global pop culture, there was a single, chaotic, independent digital haven where the real soul of hip-hop lived: DatPiff. Founded in ...
Hip-hop fans were dismayed to learn that long-running mixtape streaming site DatPiff — whose existence even predates that of more mainstream DSPs like Spotify — had shut down yesterday, leading to a ...