Mixtape
7.1
“Never Play By The Rules”
Mixtapes have an out-sized role in the emergence of hip hop around the world. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes. No matter where you lived, you could pop a cassette into a tape deck, and be transported to a party halfway around the world. DJs were taste makers, trendsetters and creators of the sound that became the biggest musical genre on the planet. A meteoric rise for an art form not yet 50 years old. The importance of mixtapes goes well beyond the tapes themselves. Mixtapes were a form of currency. A signifier that you were In-The-Know and had your ear to the streets. A skeleton key to the underground. The culture was too strong to be stopped, and the artists were too talented to be ignored - so they turned the sub-culture into the mainstream, and made hip hop what it is today.
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Omar Acosta Director · Daniel Seliger Writer
United States release August 1, 2023 · Produced in United States · Production Def Jam Recordings, MTV Documentary Films
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Saboteur Media
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Def Jam Recordings
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MTV Documentary Films
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Mercury Studios
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 7, 2022
Premiere
United States · August 1, 2023
Digital · Paramount+
France
September 22, 2023 · Digital · Paramount+
Germany
September 22, 2023 · Digital · Paramount+
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