Noisey looks back at three classic mixtapes in hip-hop history that have quietly gone underrated and overlooked in history.

Streaming services have made us a little spoiled. We have access to practically the entire history of music at our fingertips for a monthly fee. Back in the day, buying an album was a real financial ...

Last month, rap star Lil Wayne announced that his much-anticipated album, "Tha Carter IV" would be released Aug. 29. It was a long wait from the original anticipated date in May -- even longer for ...

With the lines between mixtapes and albums blurrier than ever, we look at how 50 Cent revolutionized the format forever on his road to "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'." Based on the accessibility that the ...

Late last month, J. Cole released three fan-favorite mixtapes on streaming services for the very first time: The Come Up, The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights. The move coincided with his nostalgic ...

2015 has seen a crazy amount of great album releases, and it's no different in the realm of mixtapes. With all the albums that have been released, you might actually forget all the fantastic projects ...

Far from its adolescent iteration, the mixtape-a compilation of music generally distributed outside of label purview-has evolved from a mere display of DJ skills to a promotional tool packed with excl ...

Our picks for the 20 best mixtapes of 2015. As a result, our mixtapes list skews closer to the off-the-cuff, less serious type of release that originally encapsulated the definition. You might think ...

What does “mixtape” mean anymore? In assembling this list, we asked the question again and again, partly because rap continues to redefine the term. In 2000, mixtapes were generally still piles of ...