rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-rap-mixtapes-datpiff-1234942566

Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” experienced a server crash that put their canonical library of free music in peril. A month later, the site relaunched with a page announcing plans for “evolving beyond our website and app” to “continue to make the library accessible!” And now, almost a year later, their 50 TB cache of mixtapes and free albums from the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, and more are streamable on The Internet Archive. Their massive file upload ensures that a valuable reserve of rap history won’t be lost to the 404 gods.

Listeners can access the DatPiff music they’ve come to enjoy while the platform goes into veritable maintenance mode and builds their next ideation. The front page promises a “next generation” of Datpiff, and notes, “We’ll have more to share soon, but in the meantime make sure to follow us on YouTube and Instagram to stay on top of new mixtape releases!”

Dedication 2

january 2024 article

it’s still missing stuff that was on datpiff

LiveMixtapes still up 🙏

by the way this is the link (i think, could be wrong)

archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes

First album shown: Nostalgia Ultra

so f***ing in

If you tell a 14 year old today that they should listen to No Ceilings by Lil Wayne they're going to go to Spotify and hear some bullshit and think that that's No Ceilings by Lil Wayne. Very upsetting

archive.org/details/earl-earl-sweatshirt

So sick

I'm glad they were able to do this

rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-rap-mixtapes-datpiff-1234942566

"Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive."

this archive currently only has 9700 mixtapes unfortunately.

such a classic tape still idc

Can’t believe internet archive is still up. Can download like any album ever.

Dope

LiveMixtapes better tho

anyone remember hear-it-first