It's that time of year again when we reflect on the good and the bad (but mostly the bad) events that happened over the past 12 months. Looking over the year of mixtape releases, unfortunately a lot ...

The original Just Re’d Up mixtape was released on May 2, 2011, by Pushaz Ink; it was YG’s third mixtape and featured one of his early viral hits, “B*tches Ain’t Sh*t.” Two years later, YG followed up ...

There are times when you really shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. The covers for the Neapolitan Novels by Italian writer Elena Ferrante look like straight-up stock imagery, but Ferrante’s prose and ...

After teasing fans with the return of "Mixtape Pluto" back in May, Future has been hard at work on the project. He insisted later that month that he wouldn't sleep until the tape was finished. Metro ...

The line between mixtape and album is steadily blurring. Classifying the mixtape now as something "we got for free" seems rude, and it also undermines the increased effort these projects receive.