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Mixtape

All the artists knewthis is what keeps me alive

All the artists knew
this is what keeps me alive

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- All the artists knew this is what keeps me alive.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
18
Timestamp in Movie
00:26:56
Uploaded
May 04, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Saboteur Media,Def Jam Recordings,MTV Documentary Films,Mercury Studios

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Movie Summary

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...
This is what keeps the vibrancy going, - Mixtape 00:06
This is what keeps the vibrancy going,
We still breaking the fucking day with hip-hop - Mixtape 00:07
We still breaking the fucking day with hip-hop
Whirlwinds, tornadoes, - Mixtape 00:08
Whirlwinds, tornadoes,
Breakfast time, dude. We still wilding, fuck. - Mixtape 00:05
Breakfast time, dude. We still wilding, fuck.
- One of the most amazing things to me about - Mixtape 00:06
- One of the most amazing things to me about
- The way it rippled out through the culture at large, - Mixtape 00:07
- The way it rippled out through the culture at large,
But like everything else with hip-hop, - Mixtape 00:06
But like everything else with hip-hop,
- And these kids used to come all the way to Bushwick - Mixtape 00:08
- And these kids used to come all the way to Bushwick
- Those who knew, knew, - Mixtape 00:05
- Those who knew, knew,
"Yo, let me dub that. Let me hold that." - Mixtape 00:04
"Yo, let me dub that. Let me hold that."
Like, they would come up to me and be like, - Mixtape 00:04
Like, they would come up to me and be like,
- God forbid you let someone hold it - Mixtape 00:04
- God forbid you let someone hold it
- There's actually been fights, shoot-outs, stabbings, - Mixtape 00:05
- There's actually been fights, shoot-outs, stabbings,
- It made it all the way from 125th Street to the point where - Mixtape 00:10
- 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 00:04
- So a kid like me, I would bring my collection down.
And then they would span and fan out through the college. - Mixtape 00:04
And then they would span and fan out through the college.
It's listening to the music - Mixtape 00:04
It's listening to the music
[hip-hop music] - Mixtape 00:15
[hip-hop music]
All of the people that you now recognize - Mixtape 00:06
All of the people that you now recognize
- We'd get the imports, 'cause, you know, - Mixtape 00:05
- We'd get the imports, 'cause, you know,