Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...

Decades after they helped grow hip-hop into mainstream culture, mixtapes are now the raw material in a number of apps and websites that do not pay record labels or artists any money. DatPiff If you ...

The site is experiencing technical issues. Before Apple Music and Spotify, there was a period when many rap fans listened to their favorite artists’ music via Datpiff. The 18-year-old audio platform ...

Hip-hop fans were dismayed to learn that long-running mixtape streaming site DatPiff — whose existence even predates that of more mainstream DSPs like Spotify — had shut down yesterday, leading to a ...

Fans are currently unable to access the website and app that has an enormous archive of hip hop releases, though DatPiff claim this is due to "technical issues" Hip hop mixtape app and website DatPiff ...

After DatPiff’s servers crashed in mid March, operators of the beloved mixtape hub mitigated rumors of its demise by tweeting that the site was “still here” and would “still be supplying you with all ...

For hip-hop fans, the mixtape download service Datpiff was a necessity as much as a tool. At a time where the dynamics of the game were changing in the corporate world – Jay-Z literally became an ...

"The Best Free Shit You'll Ever Get" tweets Chicago's Lil Bibby, referring to the long-anticipated Free Crack II mixtape he dropped on DatPiff just in time for Labor Day weekend. The tape see Bibby's ...

Before Trinidad James was mumbling all over your car stereo like Marlon Brando doing King Midas, he dropped Don’t Be S.A.F.E. for free, on online mixtape repositories like the popular DatPiff. That ...