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 the late great Justo Faison founder of the Mixtape Awards!
Read moreReMiX What i Like! A Fresh Look at iMWiL! w DaveyD
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 i Mix What i Like: A Mixtape Manifesto.
Read moreThe Mixtape Manifesto: A Virtual Conversation
Check out this Twitter discussion of I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto with #SayWordBC crew!
Read moreCommunicating Liberation: A Talk with I Mix What I like’s Jared A. Ball by Vitamin D
The [Original Audio] George Jackson Tribute Mixtape
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 activists reading portions of Jackson’s work and a bunch of good music from folks like Public Enemy, Dead Prez, Blitz, Hasan Salaam, Asheru, Head-Roc,…
Read moreThe Revolution will not be Televised-it will be Remixed! Hip Hop Colonialism versus Emancipatory (Mixtape) Journalism a Review by Lawrence Grandpre
… Morgan State University professor Jared Ball in his new book I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto… [offers] a penetrating look at the way Black culture has become a commodity to be exploited for profit and a tool for the control of the brown masses, as corporate interest promote the vapid and tacitly…
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