Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” ...

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 ...

After DatPiff’s servers crashed in mid March, operators of the beloved mixtape hub mitigated rumors of its demise by tweeting that the site was “still here” and would “still be supplying you with all ...

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 ...

Before Trinidad James was mumbling all over your car stereo like Marlon Brando doing King Midas, he dropped Don’t Be S.A.F.E. for free, on online mixtape repositories like the popular DatPiff. That ...

"The Best Free Shit You'll Ever Get" tweets Chicago's Lil Bibby, referring to the long-anticipated Free Crack II mixtape he dropped on DatPiff just in time for Labor Day weekend. The tape see Bibby's ...