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 ...

Last week, social media was abuzz with whispers that DatPiff, the venerable hip hop mixtape platform, might be closing shop after 18 years of unparalleled service to the music community. Though the ...

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 ...

The Rap Report is The FADER’s column dedicated to highlights in the rap world, from megastar artists to the deep underground. After federal agents raided DJ Drama’s studio on behalf of the RIAA in ...

Waka Flocka had some strong words for DatPiff on Wednesday. Just days after the Brick Squad rapper posted all his mixtapes to SoundCloud, DatPiff’s vice president Kyle “KP” Reilly posted a tweet that ...

15 years after its launch, DatPiff lives on. Vice president Kyle “KP” Reilly explains how the platform found its niche and remains an important hip-hop archive.

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 ...

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 ...

Kendrick Lamar, Mariah the Scientist, Teyana Taylor and Michael B. Jordan are all up for major honors at this year’s ceremony. 4 hours ago Though this is a major win for Wayne fans, the release only ...