This was an incredible discussion with Regan Sommer McCoy curator of the Mixtape Museum! We talked about the history of mixtapes and their special relationship to hip-hop and, of course, discussed...
Given all the latest developments with propaganda and Facebook, attacks on Net Neutrality, and media consolidation hip-hop historian and journalist DaveyD thought it a good time for a fresh look at...
In this first dose recorded earlier in the year, Vitamin D sat down with Media and Communication theorist, political activist and radio DJ Dr. Jared A. Ball from the I Mix What I Like podcast. Dr....
As part of an ongoing tribute to Black August I am again re-posting a remastered version of the original 2006 George Jackson FreeMix Radio Mixtape. The mixtape features DC-area artists and...
... Morgan State University professor Jared Ball in his new book I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto... a penetrating look at the way Black culture has become a commodity to be exploited for...
Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto is now available for free as a PDF. The book was originally published in 2011, had a relatively successful first run and now has had its copyright reverted to me....
I Mix What I Like! In Defense and Appreciation of the Rap Music Mixtape as “National” and “Dissident” Communication in the International Journal of Communication. Jared A. Ball The rap music...