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Vibe: Tapes on Tapes! The 11 Best Mixtapes of 2011

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The 11 Best Mixtapes of 2011

The last 12 months were filled with more mixtapes than we can remember. There have literally been hundreds of MP3 collections mixed together and uploaded to the ‘Net. Did we listen to every single release? Um… well, we tried our best to give everyone a fair shot. In doing so, VIBE stumbled across a number of mixtapes worthy to be kept in steady rotation.

Standout projects from Jadakiss, Currensy, 2 Chainz and Waka Flocka were hard to forget about but there were 11 mixtapes that we had to name as the best tapes of 2011. It was a crazy and overwhelming year for hip-hop music. Who can forget the countless number of tapes released in October (we challenge you to name 10 right now!)? Or Wale crashing Hulkshare with his Eleven One Eleven release. As the year comes to end, we found it necessary to spotlight the 11 mixtapes that got the most play in the VIBE offices this year. Continue reading →

“Yo! MTV Raps” To Return To Television

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MTV plans to bring back the classic hip-hop show, which aired from 1988 to 1995 and strongly influenced the spread of hip-hop culture, for a single night. The retrospective will feature the show’s original hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Dr. Dre and will reminisce on hip-hop’s Golden Era with a slew of influential artists, including Q-Tip Ice Cube, Wiz Khalifa, DJ Khaled, Questlove, Busta Rhymes, Mac Miller, Young Jeezy,  Phife,  Common, Ice-T, Naughty by Nature, and more.

The dream-come-true special will air on MTV2 on December 4th, directly after the first-ever Sucker Free Awards at 11 p.m.

[via MTV]