Def Jam Recordings

Mixtapes have an out-sized role in the emergence of hip hop around the world. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes. No matter where you lived, you could pop a cassette into a tape deck, and be transported to a party halfway around the world. DJs were taste makers, trendsetters and creators of the sound that became the biggest musical genre on the planet. A meteoric rise for an art form not yet 50 years old. The importance of mixtapes goes well beyond the tapes themselves. Mixtapes were a form of currency. A signifier that you were In-The-Know and had your ear to the streets. A skeleton key to the underground. The culture was too strong to be stopped, and the artists were too talented to be ignored - so they turned the sub-culture into the mainstream, and made hip hop what it is today.

A visual album by American singer Frank Ocean serenades the construction of a spiraling “staircase to heaven” inside a warehouse.

In 2011, Rihanna sparked a fan frenzy with her sold out 45 date European tour, including six nights at London's O2 Arena... Rihanna now releases over 90 minutes of live performance footage on her new LOUD Tour Live at the O2 Concert Film. This Concert Film features twenty-one, live performances from a December, 2011, sold-out, London, UK show at the O2 including the #1 hits: We Found Love, Only Girl (In the World), S&M, What's My Name, Rude Boy, Umbrella, Love the Way You Lie and many more! The Concert Film also features never before released behind-the-scenes footage of life on the road with Rihanna during the summer and fall of 2011. Rihanna's extraordinary show features production, costumes and stage design that create a visual and audio event which her fans globally have come to expect and love from one of the brightest stars in music today.