Minds Behind The Music: #‎1ON1With‬ featuring Cali Green at Wiz Lounge

Minds Behind The Music is excited to start the year with a new installment of ‪#‎1ON1With‬ featuring Cali Green; Manager … More

Tape Hiss, Compression, and the Stubborn Materiality of Sonic Diaspora

DJ Con/Rapacon Wrap-up

On November 19, 2015, The Hip Hop Cultural Center in Harlem (H2C2) brought 125 DJs to spin live on 125th … More

Support The Universal Hip Hop Museum’s “Buy Back Hip-Hop” Campaign

The mission of The Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) is to teach, engage and inspire audiences around the world through … More

Join Us for the Inaugural “Minds Behind the Music” Honors #MBMHonors

Minds Behind the Music (MBM) is pleased to host the Inaugural #MBMHonors celebrating a successful 2015 and commemorating industry professionals … More

We The People for #HipHopEducation in Schools

The Mixtape Museum is joining our family over at The Hip Hop Education Center in petitioning President Barack Obama to publicly … More

The Extra Credit Awards

Please join the Hip-Hop Education Center, in collaboration with, New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of … More

10/5 – 10/11: Stretch & Bobbito at Maysles, Harlem on

MXM Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities #NEHturns50

Watch: The Cassette Documentary Trailer #2

Afrika Bambaataa on “Key Influencers of Hip Hop”

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Listen: The Mix behind the Tape

Epée Hervé Dingong | Paris, France

In this new series, MXM features avid mixtape collectors and their analog collections. The first hails from Paris, France. We … More

DJ Mars + “Art Behind the Tape” On Hot 97

For All Master Interview with Tapemasta

Nick Bishop from For All Masters.com sat down with our Mixtape Librarian Tapemasta in his mixtape vault in Brooklyn to talk … More

Art Behind the Tape Release Party

August 16: Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito 25th Anniversary Concert, Summer Stage

Join Stretch and Bobbito for their 25th Anniversary Concert/Film Screening at Central Park, Rumsey Playfield on August 16 from 5:00 pm – … More

Call for Papers: Show & Prove 2016 Hip Hop Studies Conference, April 8-10, 2016

Shout-out to Dr. Imani Kai Johnson, chair of the “Show & Prove” international Hip Hop Studies conferences. The conference previously held … More

August 6, 2015: The Politics of Preservation

Marvel Comics Presents Hip-Hop Variants

Marvel Comics has just unveiled a sample of their forthcoming Hip Hop Variants line. The comic book covers slated for … More

May 28: The Business of Music Seminars

Revolutions On Air: The Golden Era of New York Radio 1980 – 1988

The Birth of Hip Hop in New York Thursday, May 14 at 6:30pm

“Preventive Maintenance for Audio Discs and Tapes” by Jim Farrington

We’ve just added a fresh new publication to our list of scholarly papers & articles. Preventive Maintenance for Audio Discs and … More

Sample Not For Sale Documentary Screening

This one time screening on April 2, presented by Wax Poetics and Brooklyn label Names You Can Trust is a one-time only … More

Hip-Hop Revolution at Museum of the City of New York

Hip-Hop Revolution presents more than 80 photographs taken between 1977 and 1990 by three preeminent New York-based photographers—Janette Beckman, Joe … More