Creating them was a lot like writing a letter over a week. I remember once sending a mixtape to a penfriend in Kenya where the letter was included in the audio at the beginning. I just rambled on about whatever came to mind. I was probably 14, maybe younger. It would be hilarious to hear that now.

I was reading about this the other day and was sitting on some type of metaphoric fence…mostly because they were kind of ripping on the idea of it being hard to make a mix tape back in the day, and how you’d have to actually sit there and listen to the music and manually make it and all…

I think that’s the biggest thing I miss about really getting into music, when mix tapes were the original file sharing and you pretty much made them for particular people……