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Mixtape

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 tra...

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Omar Acosta

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Saboteur Media,Def Jam Recordings,MTV Documentary Films,Mercury Studios

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Like, he brought
the energy that - Mixtape

Like, he brought the energy that

- His voice felt like it was
cutting the paint off the wall. - Mixtape

- His voice felt like it was cutting the paint off the wall.

I got Mister Softee pulling up
playing my shit - Mixtape

I got Mister Softee pulling up playing my shit

- For some reason, - Mixtape

- For some reason,

[laughs]
selling the crazy shit. - Mixtape

[laughs] selling the crazy shit.

He chased my truck
three blocks down 3rd Avenue - Mixtape

He chased my truck three blocks down 3rd Avenue

"Play this. Play this." - Mixtape

"Play this. Play this."

♪ Something tell you that
I wouldn't do ♪ - Mixtape

♪ Something tell you that I wouldn't do ♪

After the clubs let out, - Mixtape

After the clubs let out,

I would sit there in awe
just watching the cars go by-- - Mixtape

I would sit there in awe just watching the cars go by--

- My purpose was to get known - Mixtape

- My purpose was to get known

[hip-hop music] - Mixtape

[hip-hop music]

- ♪ Something in the way
you make me feel ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Something in the way you make me feel ♪

- He had a mix of
"Impeach the President" - Mixtape

- He had a mix of "Impeach the President"

There'd be a car at
every light playing that mix - Mixtape

There'd be a car at every light playing that mix

If my mix is something you
bump in your ride, - Mixtape

If my mix is something you bump in your ride,

- Me doing
the Stephanie Mills mix - Mixtape

- Me doing the Stephanie Mills mix

- After we get
the initial shock of Capri, - Mixtape

- After we get the initial shock of Capri,

[explosion] - Mixtape

- Wherever you got it from--
the barber shop, - Mixtape

- Wherever you got it from-- the barber shop,

- I'm getting the idea that,
like, if I don't buy this tape, - Mixtape

- I'm getting the idea that, like, if I don't buy ...

That market was not measured
by any analytics companies. - Mixtape

That market was not measured by any analytics companies.

[tape rewinding] - Mixtape

[tape rewinding]

Get with that rough shit.
You know how we do. - Mixtape

Get with that rough shit. You know how we do.

- ♪ Yeah, it's the love
and hate theory ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Yeah, it's the love and hate theory ♪

♪ Yeah ♪ - Mixtape

And this radio would play
Doo Wop or Ron G mixtapes - Mixtape

And this radio would play Doo Wop or Ron G mixtapes

You would hear those tapes,
how they were made, - Mixtape

You would hear those tapes, how they were made,

- ♪ On top with
the underground ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ On top with the underground ♪

[stammering]
Ah! - Mixtape

[stammering] Ah!

- My mother, being that
she didn't like - Mixtape

- My mother, being that she didn't like

And then I can hear
the beat behind it, - Mixtape

And then I can hear the beat behind it,

- ♪ It's nothing that
I'd rather do ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ It's nothing that I'd rather do ♪

- Doo Wop had a tape
that was legendary, - Mixtape

- Doo Wop had a tape that was legendary,

- Nobody had known rappers
rhyming on they tape - Mixtape

- Nobody had known rappers rhyming on they tape

♪ Who is this, doing this
synthetic type of ♪ - Mixtape

♪ Who is this, doing this synthetic type of ♪

- Doo Wop was the first DJ
to feature - Mixtape

- Doo Wop was the first DJ to feature

- It had everybody
who was everybody - Mixtape

- It had everybody who was everybody

- ♪ Scout sewing up the
Brooklyn ballers is who I be ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Scout sewing up the Brooklyn ballers is who I be ♪

- ♪ I'm down with the Busta,
straight from the under ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ I'm down with the Busta, straight from the under ♪...

- They'd be censored or they
might wanna air out a beef - Mixtape

- They'd be censored or they might wanna air out a beef

- You know, because we were
doing it on a four-track, - Mixtape

- You know, because we were doing it on a four-track,

- ♪ Bring it back, come back ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Bring it back, come back ♪

- ♪ Heal up, wheel up,
bring it back, come rewind ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Heal up, wheel up, bring it back, come rewind ♪

- ♪ Powerful impact, powerful
impact, powerful impact ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Powerful impact, powerful impact, powerful impact ♪

And it really showed us
the power of the music - Mixtape

And it really showed us the power of the music

- ♪ You know Monica? She got
a sister named Veronica ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ You know Monica? She got a sister named Veronica ♪

- Houston shit was all about
that slowed down aesthetic, - Mixtape

- Houston shit was all about that slowed down aesthetic,

- DJ Screw's earliest mixtapes
were just like - Mixtape

- DJ Screw's earliest mixtapes were just like

And then there's a shift,
right, where Screw, - Mixtape

And then there's a shift, right, where Screw,

[deep reverb] - Mixtape

Up the street there was
a plaza, - Mixtape

Up the street there was a plaza,

- The Edward J mixtape was
an Atlanta based thing. - Mixtape

- The Edward J mixtape was an Atlanta based thing.

And--so he made a lot of DJs
famous, like, years later. - Mixtape

And--so he made a lot of DJs famous, like, years later.

Like, um--
[singing] - Mixtape

Like, um-- [singing]

So it was a plaza I would go to - Mixtape

So it was a plaza I would go to

And those are some of
the most prestigious tapes - Mixtape

And those are some of the most prestigious tapes

- Everybody had
their own style, - Mixtape

- Everybody had their own style,

And, you know,
the way he would DJ, - Mixtape

And, you know, the way he would DJ,

We about to intro to the stage, - Mixtape

We about to intro to the stage,

Features over 150 of
the biggest names in hip-hop, - Mixtape

Features over 150 of the biggest names in hip-hop,

I had no idea he was
a Puerto Rican guy, you know? - Mixtape

I had no idea he was a Puerto Rican guy, you know?

I had my DJ equipment at home.
I would take my time. - Mixtape

I had my DJ equipment at home. I would take my time.

♪ Check, check, check, check ♪ - Mixtape

♪ Check, check, check, check ♪

So everything that you did, - Mixtape

So everything that you did,

- ♪ Out to get the bootlegger ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Out to get the bootlegger ♪

And I'd watch you.
And you'd be like, "ugh!" - Mixtape

And I'd watch you. And you'd be like, "ugh!&q...

[laughter] - Mixtape

- ♪ Kick it over here,
baby pop ♪ - Mixtape

- ♪ Kick it over here, baby pop ♪

- All the artists knew
this is what keeps me alive. - Mixtape

- All the artists knew this is what keeps me alive.

This is what keeps
the vibrancy going, - Mixtape

This is what keeps the vibrancy going,

We still breaking
the fucking day with hip-hop - Mixtape

We still breaking the fucking day with hip-hop

Whirlwinds, tornadoes, - Mixtape

Whirlwinds, tornadoes,

Breakfast time, dude.
We still wilding, fuck. - Mixtape

Breakfast time, dude. We still wilding, fuck.

- One of the most
amazing things to me about - Mixtape

- One of the most amazing things to me about

- The way it rippled out
through the culture at large, - Mixtape

- The way it rippled out through the culture at large,

But like everything else
with hip-hop, - Mixtape

But like everything else with hip-hop,

- And these kids used to come
all the way to Bushwick - Mixtape

- And these kids used to come all the way to Bushwick

- Those who knew, knew, - Mixtape

- Those who knew, knew,

"Yo, let me dub that.
Let me hold that." - Mixtape

"Yo, let me dub that. Let me hold that."

Like, they would come up to me
and be like, - Mixtape

Like, they would come up to me and be like,

- God forbid you let
someone hold it - Mixtape

- God forbid you let someone hold it

- There's actually been fights,
shoot-outs, stabbings, - Mixtape

- There's actually been fights, shoot-outs, stabbings,

- It made it all the way from
125th Street to the point where - Mixtape

- It made it all the way from 125th Street to the point wher...

- So a kid like me, I would
bring my collection down. - Mixtape

- So a kid like me, I would bring my collection down.

And then they would span and
fan out through the college. - Mixtape

And then they would span and fan out through the college.

It's listening to the music - Mixtape

It's listening to the music

[hip-hop music] - Mixtape

[hip-hop music]

All of the people
that you now recognize - Mixtape

All of the people that you now recognize

- We'd get the imports,
'cause, you know, - Mixtape

- We'd get the imports, 'cause, you know,

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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 tra...

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Director: Omar Acosta

Writer: Omar Acosta, Daniel Seliger

Production: Saboteur Media,Def Jam Recordings,MTV Documentary Films,Mercury Studios

Genre: documentary

Year: 2022

MetaScore: N/A/100

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Released: 01 Aug 2023

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