Zoo York Mixtape Volume 1 has reemerged recently via Vimeo, compliments of blogger T.R.O.Y. Serious Freestyle Sessions all around in this classic video that’s become somewhat of an ancient scroll in New York City Skate and Hip Hop culture.

Filmed in ’97, released in ’98. Although this video has been available online for some time, both streaming and for download, the downloadable version has until now, been incomplete.

“Any chance to ever see Mixtape released on DVD some day?”

“Zoo’s lawyers will never let it get re-released. It’s a licensing nightmare. We went out and got all the rappers and skaters and everyone to give us the okay to use them, but then our lawyers were like ‘what about the music everyone is rapping over?’. I mean, we don’t even know what half that stuff is.

Part of the reason why it’s so hard to find Mixtape I is that Zoo is protecting itself from lawsuits. Not that there’s any money to be made off that video. It had one VHS run over ten years ago!” ~ Eli Gesner (originally printed in Kingpin Magazine)