blog era
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Ferg on 'Flip Phone Shorty', Working With Lex Luger, and His New Life as a Visual Artist
The Harlem rapper talks his seventh studio album, the blog era that shaped him, and selling paintings at Art Basel
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The Internet Archive Now Hosts One of the World’s Biggest Collections of Rap Mixtapes
DatPiff uploaded its extensive free mixtape catalog to the Internet Archive to protect it for the foreseeable future
- Digital Footprints
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She Invented Being an Influencer — And Was Vilified for It
In her book 'Extremely Online,' journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on
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LiveMixtapes Helped Launch a New Generation of Rappers, Now It's Preparing a Second Act
The founder of the site that hosted early mixtapes from rappers like Future and Gucci Mane discusses its legacy and upcoming relaunch
- Don't Call it a Comeback
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A New Podcast Shows How the Rise of Blogs Changed Hip-Hop Forever
The 10-part series 'The Blog Era' tells the story of hip-hop’s Internet revolution in the 2000s
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