LEGENDARY MIXTAPE PLATFORM DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” experienced a server crash that put their canonical library of free music in peril. A month later, the site relaunched with a page announcing plans for “evolving beyond our website and app” to “continue to make the library accessible!” And now, almost a year later, their 50 TB cache of mixtapes and free albums from the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne, and more are streamable on The Internet Archive. Their massive file upload ensures that a valuable reserve of rap history won’t be lost to the 404 gods.

Listeners can access the DatPiff music they’ve come to enjoy while the platform goes into veritable maintenance mode and builds their next ideation. The front page promises a “next generation” of Datpiff, and notes, “We’ll have more to share soon, but in the meantime make sure to follow us on YouTube and Instagram to stay on top of new mixtape releases!”

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