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  • noun Plural form of mixtape.

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Examples

  • After his role ended, he built a music reputation as many rappers do, releasing homemade recordings, known as mixtapes, online for free.

    A Rapper Who Also Sings John Jurgensen 2011

  • The disc also solidified Drama's Gangsta Grillz series as the definitive brand in Southern mixtapes.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The disc also solidified Drama's Gangsta Grillz series as the definitive brand in Southern mixtapes.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The mixtapes were a form of boot camp for Slim, he says.

    Hip Hop News from HipHopGalaxy.com 2009

  • Ms. Minaj's first official album (she's been releasing music on underground "mixtapes" since 2007) could help her become the rare female rapper to achieve broad success since Missy Elliot.

    A Pop Follow-Up; Back to the Wall 2010

  • They became "mixtapes," a conceptual idea for grouping our music and distributing it to friends.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • They became "mixtapes," a conceptual idea for grouping our music and distributing it to friends.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • A few months ago, the RIAA shut down Muxtape, a very popular and incredibly useful online service that let individuals create "mixtapes" for streaming to others.

    Techdirt 2009

  • These 'mixtapes' or, er, DiStapes, are fairly self-explanatory, they have a-postcard-from-'09 intros followed by 9 songs, so intro blurbage ends abruptly ...

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • Q: I can't part with the mixtapes from when I was a teenager.

    Modernizing the Mixtape Kevin Sintumuang 2010

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