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Because prior to that, DJs were making compilations
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Mixtape

Because prior to that, DJswere making compilations

Because prior to that, DJs
were making compilations

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- Because prior to that, DJs were making compilations.
Duration
4 seconds
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21
Timestamp in Movie
00:51:20
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...
"I'm gonna give you a mixtape, - Mixtape 00:08
"I'm gonna give you a mixtape,
Then he got shot. [gunshot, sirens wailing] - Mixtape 00:05
Then he got shot. [gunshot, sirens wailing]
- Look, after I got hit, I went through this thing - Mixtape 00:12
- Look, after I got hit, I went through this thing
And it's a different thing when you hit to the point - Mixtape 00:08
And it's a different thing when you hit to the point
You banged up so bad you don't-- - Mixtape 00:05
You banged up so bad you don't--
'cause it would have changed their heart. - Mixtape 00:04
'cause it would have changed their heart.
That was so uncomfortable, the fear, - Mixtape 00:10
That was so uncomfortable, the fear,
[hip-hop music] - Mixtape 00:15
[hip-hop music]
- 50 was stealing the instrumentals - Mixtape 00:05
- 50 was stealing the instrumentals
- I'll take the records that I felt like were really good, - Mixtape 00:10
- I'll take the records that I felt like were really go...
When it was done, we put, like, the fake barcode, - Mixtape 00:06
When it was done, we put, like, the fake barcode,
We had to make it cool enough for the bootleggers - Mixtape 00:05
We had to make it cool enough for the bootleggers
- I think there's a lot of people on Canal Street - Mixtape 00:05
- I think there's a lot of people on Canal Street
- I had turned the bootleggers - Mixtape 00:05
- I had turned the bootleggers
- They were so hot with mixtapes - Mixtape 00:11
- They were so hot with mixtapes
- Stealing music also put us ahead of the game - Mixtape 00:04
- Stealing music also put us ahead of the game
So if I'm constantly at the labels, lurking, - Mixtape 00:06
So if I'm constantly at the labels, lurking,
- If Dr. Dre's gonna drop a single October 21st, - Mixtape 00:17
- If Dr. Dre's gonna drop a single October 21st,
Them mixtapes, they really showed people - Mixtape 00:04
Them mixtapes, they really showed people
- It was to the point where, like, a new song would come out - Mixtape 00:07
- It was to the point where, like, a new song would come out