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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fans were holding a funeral for legendary mixtape platform Datpiff a little bit too soon. Fans noticed the site was down, leading to rumors that the mixtape hub had run its course. Hitting Twitter, ...

There’s a scene that anyone who came up in hip-hop culture in the late 90s or early 2000s remembers clearly: walking into a record shop, a barbershop, or a street vendor’s spot and picking up a tape ...

Despite assurances from the site itself, DatPiff users are bracing for the worst after rumors of a shutdown began circulating on Monday night. If you were on or around Rap Twitter last night, there's ...