[2][12] Artists associated with PTP include Dreamcrusher,[13] YATTA,[14] Dis Fig,[10] Armand Hammer,[15] Saint Abdullah,[16] Celestial Trax,[17] Among The Rocks And Roots,[18] DeForrest Brown Jr. (also known as Speaker Music),[19] H31R (the duo of maassai and JWords),[20] madam data,[21] Amani,[6] photographer Richard R. Ross,[22] and Geng, who also performs and records as King Vision Ultra.

[23] In 2009, New York City born and based artist GENG PTP started a wide-ranging music blog on hip hop, hardcore, and punk; his friend NOTE assisted him and handled visuals and design.

[2][12] Geng named the platform Purple Tape Pedigree after Wu-Tang rapper Raekwon's 1995 hip hop classic Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (often called "the purple tape" for the colored plastic of its original cassette release);[1] the album came out the same year Geng, then in his teens, transitioned from cassette decks to turntables,[11] going on to collaborate with the Atoms Family hip hop collective in the late '90s and produce beats for Dipset in the early 2000s.

[23] In 2018, PTP started a live performance series called Silent Weapons to raise money for organizations including Books Through Bars, The Bronx Freedom Fund, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and Kids in Need of Defense.

[46] In 2019, Tiny Mix Tapes included the "beautiful experiment" of PTP among their favorite labels of the decade: "Drawing from and experimenting with the rich collective productions, social reimaginings, and conspiratorial caretakings tagged and thumping throughout NYC — Wu Tang, Powerule Crew, Mobb Deep — caretaker Geng less curated than colluded, clearing space within the chokeholding architectures of foreclosure and incarceration for séances of breath, ugly cries, lustrous comeups, and, above all, love stories".