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Mixtape

Well, the beginningstarts off, in my memory, with a gold Maxell cassette

Well, the beginning
starts off, in my memory, with a gold Maxell cassette

Full Transcript

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- Well, the beginning starts off, in my memory,
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with a gold Maxell cassette.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:35
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...
- 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]
- For me, growing up not knowing what you wanna do, - Mixtape 00:05
- For me, growing up not knowing what you wanna do,
- I was offered to be in the street - Mixtape 00:11
- I was offered to be in the street
- I chose that while they gon' sell $20 cracks, - Mixtape 00:05
- I chose that while they gon' sell $20 cracks,
Some would be for the origin of what hip-hop is, - Mixtape 00:07
Some would be for the origin of what hip-hop is,
For years, people have been threading it, - Mixtape 00:06
For years, people have been threading it,
- Cassettes were a result of - Mixtape 00:10
- Cassettes were a result of
- The cassette made it so that you could record it - Mixtape 00:05
- The cassette made it so that you could record it
- Not just share music, but decide what music - Mixtape 00:07
- Not just share music, but decide what music
- Like, look. You're not in the streets hanging out, - Mixtape 00:05
- Like, look. You're not in the streets hanging out,