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Mixtape

One of the mostamazing things to me about the mixtapes, in my experience,is the way they...

One of the most
amazing things to me about the mixtapes, in my experience,
is the way they would travel

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- One of the most amazing things to me about
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the mixtapes, in my experience, is the way they would travel.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:41
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...
- 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,
And then they would go copy it - Mixtape 00:05
And then they would go copy it
- There was a time when I first met AM - Mixtape 00:07
- There was a time when I first met AM
- You'd hear it maybe once. And you're like, - Mixtape 00:04
- You'd hear it maybe once. And you're like,
He had this Jeep Cherokee with, like, the CDs in the thing-- - Mixtape 00:07
He had this Jeep Cherokee with, like, the CDs in the thing--
- Man, I just heard this thing, - Mixtape 00:04
- Man, I just heard this thing,