A mill-and-fill paving project employing hot mix with high recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) content was recently carried out at a busy recycling/transfer center in Wellesley, MA, to demonstrate the ...

After a harrowing 2007 — a year that started with the arrest of leading mix-tape maker DJ Drama — hip-hop mix tapes played it cool in 2008. Collections co-signed by top-level talent were scarce, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Savage souls debuted their savage saturday project in 2013 at the now-defunct oasis on james ...

On 2013's "Acid Rap" mixtape, says Chance the Rapper, "I'm rapping about doing open mics, but closing my eyes and seeing arenas." (Bethany Mollenkof / For The Times) There was hardly a better time to ...

From the beginning, DJing was the most important aspect of hip-hop culture. The genre and culture were born from the mid-70s boom with underground DJs spinning funk and disco break loops at basement ...

While the demand for stricter environmental standards grows, RAP piles do too. Policy changes are needed before state and federal projects can accept the higher mix percentages. The road building and ...

I made a rap song in only one hour! Writing, recording, and mixing a song isn't a quick process, but we're gonna speed it up a little today. Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching! Prod. by ...

It’s sort of weird that the emo-rap underground has taken so long to adapt the mixtape. For the most part, the Def Jux types of the world choose to disseminate their throwaway songs on tour-only CDs ...

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What does “mixtape” mean anymore? In assembling this list, we asked the question again and again, partly because rap continues to redefine the term. In 2000, mixtapes were generally still piles of ...

The Seattle hip-hop community lost one of its most influential early ambassadors last week: “Nasty” Nes Rodriguez died Saturday in Los Angeles, his widow, Llola Rodriguez, announced the following ...

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