{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Short description|Online music distribution platform}} {{Unreliable sources|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox website | name = DatPiff | logo = DatPiff logo.png | founder = Marcus Frasier | dissolved = 2023 | location_country = U.S. | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = {{plainlist| * Marcus Frasier (founder) *Kyle "KP" Reilly (founder)<ref name = "NYT2023"/> }} | num_employees = | url = {{url|datpiff.com}} | ipv6 = | owner = MediaLab AI Inc.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brands {{!}} MediaLab |url=https://www.medialab.la/brands |access-date=June 7, 2023 |website=www.medialab.la |language=en}}</ref> | registration = Optional | current_status = Inactive | language = English | founded = 2005 | website_type = Digital music | revenue = | screenshot = | caption = The Authority In Free Mixtapes }}
'''DatPiff''' was an online audio distribution platform specializing in hip-hop, rap, and urban music that launched in 2005. It was headquartered in Pennsylvania.<ref name="Businessweek">{{cite magazine|title=Idle Media Inc.|magazine=Bloomberg Businessweek|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=IDLM:US|access-date=July 16, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118150613/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=IDLM|archive-date=January 18, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The site was founded in the spring of 2005 by Marcus Frasier.<ref name="forbes">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2011/08/04/datpiff-how-love-for-mixtapes-grew-to-lil-wayne-levels/#2f88af151ab8|title=Datpiff: How Love For Mixtapes Grew To Lil Wayne Levels|author=Humphrey|date=August 4, 2011|magazine=Forbes|access-date=November 29, 2018|archive-date=November 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130113731/https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2011/08/04/datpiff-how-love-for-mixtapes-grew-to-lil-wayne-levels/#2f88af151ab8|url-status=live|first=Michael}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |author=Garvey |first=Meaghan |date=December 16, 2014 |title=The Minds Behind Music's Biggest Tech Advances in the Last 10 Years |url=https://www.complex.com/music/2014/12/the-minds-behind-musics-biggest-tech-advances-in-the-last-10-years/marcus-frasier-founder-ceo-of-datpiff |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130113215/https://www.complex.com/music/2014/12/the-minds-behind-musics-biggest-tech-advances-in-the-last-10-years/marcus-frasier-founder-ceo-of-datpiff |archive-date=November 30, 2018 |access-date=November 29, 2018 |magazine=Complex}}</ref> It was owned by MediaLab.<ref name="NYT2023" /> In March 2023, DatPiff experienced severe server outages.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Martinez |first=Jose |date=2023-03-14 |title=DatPiff Mourned Amid Shutdown Speculation, Service Assures Hip-Hop Heads ‘We Promise, We Are Still Here’ |url=https://www.complex.com/music/a/jose-martinez/datpiff-shutdown-speculation-twitter-reactions |access-date=2026-02-12 |website=Complex |language=en}}</ref><ref name = "NYT2023">{{Cite news |last=Josephs |first=Brian |date=2023-06-28 |title=Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/arts/music/rap-mixtape-websites-datpiff.html |access-date=2023-12-12 |issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628151950/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/arts/music/rap-mixtape-websites-datpiff.html|archive-date=2023-06-28|url-status=live}}</ref> The following month, it announced that it had partnered with the Internet Archive to archive the site's music catalog.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gee |first=Andre |date=2024-01-08 |title=The Internet Archive Now Hosts One of the World's Biggest Collections of Rap Mixtapes |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/internet-archive-rap-mixtapes-datpiff-1234942566/ |access-date=2026-02-12 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> The site no longer hosts music but does link to the Internet Archive's collection.<ref name="NYT2023" /> Despite this, the archived catalog completely disappeared from Internet Archive not long after its publication and has yet to be reuploaded officially by DatPiff, rendering only a small percentage of mixtapes from the platform available on Internet Archive.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reddit - The heart of the internet |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/1fru9u7/the_datpiff_archive_is_now_completely_gone/ |access-date=2026-02-23 |website=www.reddit.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvSjIAh2qE4 |title=EXCLUSIVE: DatPiff Hip Hop Mixtape Archive DISAPPEARS Overnight! Is It Gone Forever? |date=2024-09-30 |last=Manny Faces |access-date=2026-02-23 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
==Features== A key feature of DatPiff was that unregistered users were allowed to download any mixtape uploaded to the site that has been sponsored. Registered users were permitted a limited number of downloads of non-sponsored mixtapes per day. Premium paid users had an unlimited number of downloads of any mixtape. Mixtapes could be streamed by any user. Premium content could also be purchased.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Williams |title=What is DatPiff? |url=https://techgeek.com.au/2020/06/07/what-is-datpiff/ |website=TechGeek |date=June 7, 2020 |access-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611093027/https://techgeek.com.au/2020/06/07/what-is-datpiff/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Users could register as either an artist or fan - the key difference being that artists upload their work to the site while fans may only listen to these works.
DatPiff had mobile applications for iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, and WebOS.
==References== {{reflist}}{{Hip hop websites}}
Category:Internet properties established in 2005 Category:American music websites Category:Free music download websites