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 ...

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 ...

This was a whole different era of the rap internet, when mixtapes were moving away from being slimline-cased CDs sold on street corners, when they were just starting to flourish on websites like ...

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 ...

If you haven’t already heard Wiz Khalifa is dropping a free mixtape called Taylor Allderdice today. The release is so highly anticipated it actually is responsible for crashing the popular download ...

Rapper Wiz Khalifa, 25, gave a nod in the general direction of his fans while paying homage to the success of last year's online mixtape, Cabin Fever (which preceded his major-label debut, Rolling ...