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Chixtape: 5 Zip

First, some context. Tory Lanez launched the Chixtape series in 2014, a mixtape saga built on a simple, brilliant gimmick: each installment was a tribute to a specific year in R&B’s golden era (the late ‘90s and early 2000s). He’d reimagine beats, interpolate hooks, and feature the very artists who defined that era—Ashanti, Fabolous, Jadakiss, Mya, and T-Pain.

To the uninitiated, it looked like tech jargon. But to fans of the Canadian R&B singer Tory Lanez, it was a plea for a time machine.

Tory Lanez himself leaned into the mixtape culture. He originally released Chixtape 5 for free download via his website for a limited time, understanding that his core fanbase still valued the MP3. But within weeks, those official links died, and the “chixtape5.zip” search exploded.

This search highlights a generational divide. For older listeners, a ZIP file represents freedom: no ads, no region-locking, no artist removing a song due to sample clearance. For artists and labels, however, unauthorized ZIP files are piracy—especially for a project like Chixtape 5 , which famously cleared over 30 samples, a costly and complex legal feat. Chixtape 5 zip

In the end, the ZIP file became a metaphor. You can compress music, but you can’t compress nostalgia. And that’s why, years later, the search continues.

Today, searching for “Chixtape 5 zip” yields a cautionary tale. Most direct links are dead. The remaining ones are often booby-trapped with adware. The album is fully available on all major streaming services, and physical copies exist for collectors.

In the fall of 2019, a quiet but persistent signal pulsed through Reddit threads, Twitter replies, and YouTube comment sections. It was a request, often typed in a hurry: “Anyone got a Chixtape 5 zip?” First, some context

So, "Chixtape 5 zip" became a digital ghost hunt. Fans scoured forums like KingdomLeaks (now defunct) and DBree . They shared MEGA and Google Drive links that expired within hours. Bloggers posted “rapidgator” and “uploaded.net” mirrors, many of which were littered with pop-up ads or fake download buttons that led to malware.

Chixtape 5 , released on November 15, 2019, was the final chapter. It wasn’t just a mixtape; it was a certified love letter to the days of burned CDs, flip phones, and slow jams. Critics praised it for its authenticity, and it landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

The story of Chixtape 5 zip isn’t really about a file. It’s about memory. It’s about wanting to possess a feeling—the grainy warmth of a bootleg, the late-night hunt for a rare track, and the thrill of unzipping a folder full of songs that sound like your high school hallway. To the uninitiated, it looked like tech jargon

A ZIP file is a compressed folder. In the early 2000s, it was the standard way to share a full album: one download, one click, and suddenly you had 14 tracks living permanently on your hard drive, your iPod Classic, or your Nokia N95. It felt real .

But here’s where the word zip enters the story.

But every few months, a new fan discovers the series and asks the same question. They want to hold those 2000s-flavored tracks in their hand—or at least in a folder labeled “Music” on their desktop.


Chixtape: 5 Zip


Difficulty: Medium
Download: database_tutorials.zip

In this tutorial we are going to be adding data to the Guestbook database made in the tutorial Part: 1 Connecting to an Access Database.

To make the Microsoft Access database tutorials on Connecting, Adding, Deleting, and Updating, more interesting we are going to use these tutorials to make a simple Guestbook.

In the first database tutorial, Part: 1 Connecting to an Access Database, we learned how to connect to a database and display the contents of a database table in a web page.

In this tutorial we use an HTML form to take a site visitors name and comments and add these to the database. We will then use the page 'guestbook.asp' made in the first database tutorial to display the contents of the database (don't worry if you didn't do the first database tutorial, the 'Guestbook database' and the 'guestbook.asp' page are included in the zip file for this tutorial).


Chixtape: 5 Zip

First we need to quickly create an HTML page with a form on it to take the input from the user.

In this page we will have two text boxes, one called 'name' and the other called, 'comments', we will then use the post method to send the page to the file, 'add_to_guestbook.asp' that we are going to be creating later in this tutorial, which will add the user input into the database.

<html>
<head>
<title>Guestbook Form</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white" text="black">
<!-- Begin form code -->
 <form name="form" method="post" action="add_to_guestbook.asp">
     Name: <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="20">
     <br>
     Comments: <input type="text" name="comments" maxlength="50">
     <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
 </form>
<!-- End form code -->
</body>
</html>

Save the page as 'guestbook_form.htm' in the same folder as the Guestbook database.

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Now we've got the form, to input the data through, out of the way we can make the the page that does all the work, adding the data to the database.

This page contains no HTML so we can start writing the asp straight away, still don't forget the server side script tags, <% .... %>.

First we need to dimension the variables used in the script, so open your favourite text editor and enter the following code.

<%
'Dimension variables
Dim adoCon          'Holds the Database Connection Object
Dim rsAddComments   'Holds the recordset for the new record to be added
Dim strSQL          'Holds the SQL query to query the database

Next we need to create a database connection object on the server using the ADO Database connection object.

'Create an ADO connection object
Set adoCon = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

Now we need to open a connection to the database. There are a couple of ways of doing this either by using a system DSN or a DSN-less connection. First I am going to show you how to make a DSN-less connection as this is faster and simpler to set up than a DSN connection.

To create a DSN-less connection to an Access database we need tell the connection object we created above to open the database by telling the connection object to use the 'Microsoft Access Driver' to open the database 'guestbook.mdb'.

You'll notice the ASP method 'Server.MapPath' in font of the name of the database. This is used as we need to get the physical path to the database. Server.MapPath returns the physical path to the script, e.g. 'c:\website\', as long as the database is in the same folder as the script it now has the physical path to the database and the database name.

'Set an active connection to the Connection object using a DSN-less connection
adoCon.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("guestbook.mdb")

Next create an ADO recordset object which will hold the records from the database and the new record to be added to the database.

'Create an ADO recordset object
Set rsAddComments = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

To query a database we need to use SQL (Structured Query Language). In the next line we initialise the variable 'strSQL' with an SQL query to read in the fields 'Name' and 'Comments' form the 'tblComments' table.

'Initialise the strSQL variable with an SQL statement to query the database
strSQL = "SELECT tblComments.Name, tblComments.Comments FROM tblComments;"

Set the cursor type we are using to 'adOpenDynamic' so we can move through the recrord set. The integer value for this is 2.

'Set the cursor type we are using so we can navigate through the recordset
rsAddComments.CursorType = 2

Because we are going to be saving an updated recordset back to the database we need to set the LockType of the recordset to 'adoLockOptimistic' so that the recordset is locked, but only when it is updated. The integer value for this lock type is 3.

'Set the lock type so that the record is locked by ADO when it is updated
rsAddComments.LockType = 3

Now we can open the recordset and run the SQL query on the database returning the results of the query to the recordset.

'Open the recordset with the SQL query
rsAddComments.Open strSQL, adoCon

Once the recordset is open we can add a new record onto the end of the recordset. In the next line we let the recordset know we are adding a new record to it.

'Tell the recordset we are adding a new record to it
rsAddComments.AddNew

Now we can add a new record to the recordset. The details taken from the form we created at the start of this tutorial are entered into there relevant fields in the recordset. To get the data entered by the user from the form we use the 'Form' method of the ASP 'Request' object to request the data entered into the text boxes, 'name' and 'comments'.

'Add a new record to the recordset
rsAddComments.Fields("Name") = Request.Form("name")
rsAddComments.Fields("Comments") = Request.Form("comments")

The data has been entered into the recordset we can save the recordset to the database using the 'Update' method of the recordset object.

'Write the updated recordset to the database
rsAddComments.Update

We have finished using the database in this script so we can now close the recordset and reset the server objects.

'Reset server objects
rsAddComments.Close
Set rsAddComments = Nothing
Set adoCon = Nothing

Now that the database is updated we are going to use the 'Redirect' method of the ASP response object to redirect to the 'guestbook.asp' page we created in the first database tutorial, Connecting to an Access Database, so we can display the updated database. Note that if you are going to use the 'Response.Redirect' method you must remember to redirect before any HTML is written.

'Redirect to the guestbook.asp page
Response.Redirect "guestbook.asp"
%>

Now call the file 'add_to_guestbook.asp' and save it to the same directory as the database and the 'guestbook.asp' page, don't forget the '.asp' extension.

And that's about it, you have now created a simple Guestbook for your website, to find out how to delete any of the comments from the Guestbook database read the next tutorial on, Deleting Data from an Access Database.

If you find that you are getting errors connecting to the database then please read through the Access Database Errors FAQ's, practically make sure you have the correct 'ODBC Drivers' installed on your system and if you are using the, 'NTFS file system', make sure the permissions are correct for the database and the directory the database in.

Part 3: Deleting Data from an Access Database (Guestbook Pt.3) >>


Accompanying Tutorials in this Series

Now that you have completed this part you should look at the accompanying Tutorials in this series





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