best mixtapes

It's the half-year mark of 2015 already, the time for XXL to take a look back at the wild and crazy year it's been so far already. Yesterday, we brought you our roundup of the 30 best albums of the year so far, and it's been a hell of a ride. Tod...

In 2014, the line between free mixtape and for-sale EP blurred more than ever, as SoundCloud releases and Datpiff exclusives wound up on iTunes and Amazon with increasing regularity. But that didn't take away from the overall quality of the year...