Some of the best Hip-Hop and R&B projects of the late 2000s and early 2010s were free mixtapes, but many of those classics are still not available to stream on DSPs to this day. However, there are far ...

DJ Envy recently recalled getting flown out by R. Kelly to work on a project together. “This was the mixtape days,” he began. “So this was when I was like 19, 20. And this is when I was on mixtapes.