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The way it rippled out through the culture at large
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The way it rippled outthrough the culture at large, I think is something thatyou really...

The way it rippled out
through the culture at large, I think is something that
you really can't even define, but I think is
pretty significant

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- The way it rippled out through the culture at large,
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I think is something that you really can't even define,
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but I think is pretty significant.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:27:46
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...
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,
[record scratching] - ♪ Tall and tan ♪ - Mixtape 00:11
[record scratching] - ♪ Tall and tan ♪