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Heck yes. Music pirates have done a whole lot to help preserve hip-hop history by ripping/archiving countless rare/underground 12" and cassettes that are definitely not available on streaming platforms; we're talking alternative versions of songs like clean edits, remixes, acapellas, instrumentals which supported hip-hop producers and DJs in the early days.

For example, check the posts in the early 2010's of sites like this, https://hiphop-thegoldenera.blogspot.com/, of course all the links are broken now.

[ndsipa_pomu]

Double Dee and Steinski mixes - their existence is due to pirates