Says the filmmaker of securing tracks by the likes of James, Gin Blossoms and 2 Live Crew: "We had to plead with bands to let us use their music in our very little, low-budget indie." By Emily Zemler ...

Last week, hip-hop legends Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip released a collaborative mixtape, The Abstract & The Dragon. The album is a major throwback to that 90s mixtape sound: simple drum loops, classic ...

The real question is, what year did each artist secure the festive top spot? Try our quiz below to see if you can place each ...

The underground mixtape has long been a staple in hip-hop, with blended DJ selections being all the rage throughout the '90s. But this decade saw the format mutate: Rappers began to take matters into ...

Nostalgia can be tricky and, if it’s directed at something you have no personal connection to, pretty stupid. The ever-accelerating nostalgia cycle is deftly skewered by “Mouth Sounds,” the brilliant ...

LOS ANGELES - Did you know Bane from Batman has a hip-hop past? Tom Hardy, who played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, gave hip-hop a try before becoming a successful actor. A Reddit user found his ...

If you ask rap fans of a certain age, "What was the best era in hip-hop?" the answer indefinitely comes back, "The '90s." It's hard to argue against it. While the '70s was the decade in which kids ...

Be Here Now is a show about pop music, and specifically the 90s era in which we were all teenagers, choosing between Blur and Oasis, wearing denim jackets and having an opinion on The Spice Girls. On ...

And thanks to designer Tiffany Roddis, mixtapes are making a comeback. Roddis creates USB flash drives that resemble these old-school treasures, hitting us right in the feels with the nostalgia. You ...

This article is more than 6 years old. Nevertheless, a different time period means that Marvel can change things up a bit, and give the fans something they've been anxiously waiting for: A perfectly ...

With a name like Mixtape, it's no surprise the Netflix movie features a killer soundtrack. This coming-of-age comedy drama is set in the late '90s and is filled with classic rock music dating back to ...