Overview
Mixtapes have an out-sized role in the emergence of hip hop around the world. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes. No matter where you lived, you could pop a cassette into a tape deck, and be transported to a party halfway around the world. DJs were taste makers, trendsetters and creators of the sound that became the biggest musical genre on the planet. A meteoric rise for an art form not yet 50 years old. The importance of mixtapes goes well beyond the tapes themselves. Mixtapes were a form of currency. A signifier that you were In-The-Know and had your ear to the streets. A skeleton key to the underground. The culture was too strong to be stopped, and the artists were too talented to be ignored - so they turned the sub-culture into the mainstream, and made hip hop what it is today.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 7, 2022
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Cast
- DJ Jazzy Jeff,DJ Drama,DJ Green Lantern,KRS-One,Lil Wayne,DJ Khaled,Game,Stretch Armstrong,DJ Clue,DJ S&Sand 19 more
- Director
- Omar Acosta
- Writer
- Omar Acosta,Daniel Seliger
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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