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Mixtape

You know, the story ofmixtapes going from criminal to legitimate enterpriseis really the...

You know, the story of
mixtapes going from criminal to legitimate enterprise
is really the story of the industry trying
to keep up with the culture

Full Transcript

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- You know, the story of mixtapes going from criminal
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to legitimate enterprise is really the story
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of the industry trying to keep up with the culture.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:52
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...
- Facts. [object clatters] - Mixtape 00:07
- Facts. [object clatters]
- A mixtape these days is dead, history. - Mixtape 00:05
- A mixtape these days is dead, history.
When they turned to people just putting out albums, - Mixtape 00:09
When they turned to people just putting out albums,
This is produced music you did in a studio, - Mixtape 00:07
This is produced music you did in a studio,
A mixtape is, jacked somebody's beat and kill 'em. - Mixtape 00:05
A mixtape is, jacked somebody's beat and kill 'em.
- So I think it's transformed, - Mixtape 00:08
- So I think it's transformed,
But it doesn't have a lot to do with where it started. - Mixtape 00:04
But it doesn't have a lot to do with where it started.
And so their version of a mixtape, - Mixtape 00:07
And so their version of a mixtape,
- We turned playlists into mixtapes. - Mixtape 00:04
- We turned playlists into mixtapes.
- You make a playlist. Curate your best playlists, - Mixtape 00:05
- You make a playlist. Curate your best playlists,
Before, people used to pay the full amount, - Mixtape 00:04
Before, people used to pay the full amount,
- It was different for me coming up - Mixtape 00:04
- It was different for me coming up
- You don't hear nobody just blowing up because they did - Mixtape 00:06
- You don't hear nobody just blowing up because they di...
Like literally people are online, posted up with smoke, - Mixtape 00:16
Like literally people are online, posted up with smoke,
- Yeah, you can call it whatever you wanna call it, - Mixtape 00:04
- Yeah, you can call it whatever you wanna call it,
You know the vibes. [laughing] - Mixtape 00:04
You know the vibes. [laughing]
- These psychologies with the cassette, long gone now, - Mixtape 00:11
- These psychologies with the cassette, long gone now,
- As for another mixtape from me, - Mixtape 00:10
- As for another mixtape from me,
- What we gonna do right here is go back, - Mixtape 00:06
- What we gonna do right here is go back,
[hip-hop music] - Mixtape 00:14
[hip-hop music]