Mixtape (2022)
Mixtapes have an out-sized role in the emergence of hip hop around the world. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes. No matter where you lived, you could pop a cassette into a tape deck, and be transported to a party halfway around the world. DJs were taste makers, trendsetters and creators of the sound that became the biggest musical genre on the planet. A meteoric rise for an art form not yet 50 years old. The importance of mixtapes goes well beyond the tapes themselves. Mixtapes were a form of currency. A signifier that you were In-The-Know and had your ear to the streets. A skeleton key to the underground. The culture was too strong to be stopped, and the artists were too talented to be ignored - so they turned the sub-culture into the mainstream, and made hip hop what it is today.
Director: Omar Acosta
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KRS-One as Self |
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Lil Wayne as Self |
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Stretch Armstrong as Self |
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DJ Clue as Self |
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DJ Jazzy Jeff as Self |
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DJ Khaled as Self |
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DJ Drama as Self |
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Game as Self |
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DJ Green Lantern as Self |
| Directing | Omar Acosta | Director |
| Writing | Daniel Seliger | Writer |
| Writing | Omar Acosta | Writer |
| Production | Barak Moffitt | Executive Producer |
| Production | David Kennedy | Executive Producer |
| Production | Daniel Seliger | Executive Producer |
