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Mixtape

There's clearly an FBI warningon every label

[laughs] There's clearly an FBI warning
on every label

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There's clearly an FBI warning on every label.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
45
Timestamp in Movie
00:00:25
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...
[chill music] - Mixtape 00:04
[chill music]
- Whatever the relevance of social media is, - Mixtape 00:06
- Whatever the relevance of social media is,
When I was walking out, - Mixtape 00:05
When I was walking out,
He's like, "yo, I'm hearing the mixtape - Mixtape 00:05
He's like, "yo, I'm hearing the mixtape
- So I would take people's commercial hits, - Mixtape 00:06
- So I would take people's commercial hits,
- Instead of playing albums, they were blasting mixtapes. - Mixtape 00:05
- Instead of playing albums, they were blasting mixtapes.
- When "Tha Carter III" sold a million the first week, - Mixtape 00:07
- When "Tha Carter III" sold a million the first w...
- A mixtape is a personal playlist from a DJ - Mixtape 00:07
- A mixtape is a personal playlist from a DJ
- Well, the beginning starts off, in my memory, - Mixtape 00:05
- Well, the beginning starts off, in my memory,
- Brothers and sisters, - Mixtape 00:06
- Brothers and sisters,
[Public Enemy's "Rebel Without a Pause"] - Mixtape 00:35
[Public Enemy's "Rebel Without a Pause"]
- ♪ Radio, suckers never play me ♪ - Mixtape 00:34
- ♪ Radio, suckers never play me ♪
- [rapping indistinctly] - Mixtape 00:05
- [rapping indistinctly]
We're lowey and we're good to go-ey. - Mixtape 00:05
We're lowey and we're good to go-ey.
And the only other way - Mixtape 00:09
And the only other way
[hip-hop music] - Mixtape 00:09
[hip-hop music]
- It was the-- it was a lot of hustling, - Mixtape 00:05
- It was the-- it was a lot of hustling,
- I would go into the bus, or the train station, - Mixtape 00:05
- I would go into the bus, or the train station,
- People wanting to hustle and get money, - Mixtape 00:08
- People wanting to hustle and get money,
[hip-hop music] - Mixtape 00:10
[hip-hop music]