🏆 7.1 | tbd | 680 * | Not Seen 🔒 ♡ 🔒

Movie (2022) | Documentary

Trailer 🌐 Other

📅 April 7, 2022 ⏱️ 1h 26m

🎥 Omar Acosta

✍️ Omar Acosta | Daniel Seliger

🎭 2 Chainz | Stretch Armstrong | Tuma Basa

📝 User (IMDb) | Critic (tbd)

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 transported to a party halfway around the world. DJs were taste makers, trendsetters and creators of the sound that became the biggest musical genre on the planet. A meteoric rise for an art form not yet 50 years old. The importance of mixtapes goes well beyond the tapes themselves. Mixtapes were a form of currency. A signifier that you were In-The-Know and had your ear to the streets. A skeleton key to the underground. The culture was too strong to be stopped, and the artists were too talented to be ignored - so they turned the sub-culture into the mainstream, and made hip hop what it is today.
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