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Dresden catches his partner's enthusiasm. "Instead of playing a song he's saying, hey can I have the parts to your song. By playing some or all or one of those parts, he creates a live remix."

Behrouz has already been there: "A lot of times you travel with ten hours to kill on a plane. I got my laptop with me. You do your own edit of your song. You burn it and five hours later you're playing it in a club."

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Thinking about it some more, Behrouz decides the problem with vinyl lies in baggage claim. "The negative thing with records is that the airlines lose your record bag," he points out. "Or other DJs see your records and they steal them. Then I gotta play tonight and I don't have any music. I always have back-up CDs."

Feed your headThe South Beach Wine and Food Festival was only two blocks down from all the madness on Collins Avenue -- it was actually held on a stretch of sand that began at Thirteenth Street -- but it seemed like another world. For a $90 entrance fee, you could listen and watch a demonstration by celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa, introduced to his admiring fans as "the man who transformed Japanese cuisine in America," or you could wind your way through the massive Target-sponsored tent. Here, more than 100 vendors, from national pasta company Barilla to Miami Beach's Patagonia Valley Organic and Gourmet Company, offered up samples to a sweaty throng of dressed-down foodies.

Meanwhile, rapper/actor Ice-T sat near the entrance of the tent, signing towels emblazoned with the logo for his new product, Liquid Ice, with a black felt pin. "It's a better energy drink than Red Bull," he says, the gray hairs peppering his beard betraying his 45 years of age. "It tastes better, it gets your dick hard, the whole shit. You know, it's a fun drink, it's blue, mix it with vodka -- it's the bomb."

Of course Liquid Ice is one of many enterprises both worthy and dubious that the O.G. has been affiliated with since he first made a cameo in the 1984 hip-hop exploitation flick Breakin'. How has he managed to stay in the celebrity game for the last two decades? "I'm a hustler," he says. "If I stop working, I die."

Reporting by Celeste Fraser Delgado, Humberto Guida, Mosi Reeves, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, and Audra Schroeder