Mixtape

Mixtape (2022)

Documentary

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

Casts

	KRS-One as Self
	Lil Wayne as Self
	Stretch Armstrong as Self
	DJ Clue as Self
	DJ Jazzy Jeff as Self
	DJ Khaled as Self
	DJ Drama as Self
	Game as Self
	DJ Green Lantern as Self
	DJ S&S as Self
	DJ Doo Wop as Self
	Funkmaster Flex as Self
	James Cruz as Self
	Angie Martinez as Self
	Bun B as Self
	Fat Joe as Self
	Yves "DJ Whoo Kid" Mondesir as Self
	50 Cent as Self
	A$AP Rocky as Self
	Fabolous as Self
	Jazzy Joyce as Self
	Hurricane G as Self
	Jadakiss as Self
	Styles P as Self
	2 Chainz as Self
	Young Jeezy as Self (as Jeezy)
	Cee Lo Green as Self
	DJ Tony Touch as Self (archive footage)
	Paul Rosenberg as Self

Crew