Struggle rappers, rejoice! Araabmuzik has released a ton of free and original instrumentals on his bran new mixtape, For Professional Use Only.

Now he’s back with another project, Weed & Instrumentals 2. The collection finds the Jet Life rhymer spitting weeded-out rhymes over popular rap instrumentals.

Clams Casino, source of last year’s Instrumentals mixtape, has gifted the world with a new selection of his instrumental tracks. He announced it and provided a download link on Twitter the other day – ...

Clams Casino, the producer behind " I'm God " and umpteen other based classics, released an instrumental mixtape of tracks he's done for Lil B, Soulja Boy, Main Attrakionz and Squadda B. Listening ...

Beats By Portland, Vol. 1 - A Portland hip-hop mixtape. Design by David Greenwald/The Oregonian, photo by Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian.

Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult.