The coast had a voice before the feed.
A new editorial archive about regional hip-hop media, the mixtape web and the links that carried West Coast stories around the world.
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How the independent web moved music
Original essays provide context for an era whose pages, players and download links are rapidly disappearing.
Before feeds: how independent rap sites moved music
Forums, MP3 links, interviews and email submissions formed a hand-built discovery network.
A field guide to the mixtape-era web
How to read playlists, radio rips, exclusives and promo tracks without losing their original context.
Preserving interviews without rewriting history
A practical standard for restoring old routes while respecting writers, artists and missing evidence.
Recovered routes
Legacy feature index
Established URLs remain useful, but former interviews and media are not copied or invented.
Big Rich — legacy feature route
A preserved address once associated with an artist interview and video feature.
2006NUMP — legacy feature route
A recovered 2006 feature address linked from contemporary music discussions.
2007C-Bo — legacy feature route
The established path of a 2007 feature page, retained without republishing its interview.
2007Soopafly — legacy feature route
A preserved 2007 feature path from the independent West Coast rap web.
2005Khayree — legacy interview route
A stable destination for the former `/interviews/khayree.php` address.
Preserve the path. Credit the work. Never fake the missing tape.
Owning an expired domain does not mean owning the reporting that once lived on it. This restart keeps historical links alive while drawing a clear line around authorship and rights.