Subject: Akon

• Jose Cuervo Buys the Drinks at Mansion

  April 26, 2007

• Gil Green Makes Video Gold in Hollywood

  May 30, 2007

• Angry Akon Throws Young Fan Offstage

  June 5, 2007

• Tuesday Afternoon Music Fix - Raveonettes, Michael Jackson and Ghostface

  December 4, 2007

• Albums on Tap for Early 2008

  January 2, 2008

• Is R&B Singer Akon a Fraud?

  April 23, 2008

• Q&A with Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed!

  May 27, 2008

• Last Night: SummerFest 2008 at BankAtlantic Center

  June 30, 2008

• Over the Weekend - SummerFest, Wisin & Yandel, Irie Golf Tournament and Laidback Luke

  June 30, 2008

• DJ Khaled Album Out Today; Does In-Store at Best Buy in Pembroke Pines

  September 16, 2008

• Lil Wayne's Winter Wonderland

  The British tabloids are buzzing this morning that two football soccer stars have been banned by their team's management from attending a huge Christmas week party in Miami held by Lil Wayne and Akon. Whatever to this UK soccer saga, but this is first we're hearing of the party which the tabs (who are not known for hyperbole at all) are calling "the biggest hip-hop bash ever thrown." Supposedly, the bill for the gala is going to top £1 million (in American money, taking into account the streng

  December 1, 2008

• Last Night: Panda Bear and No Age at Karu & Y

  Art Damage with Panda Bear and No Age Friday, December 5Karu & Y, Downtown Miami Better Than: Everything happening that night on the planet Earth if you happen to take Pitchfork or College radio charts as the gospel. The Review: The rumors of a No Age/Panda Bear double bill during Basel begin about three weeks ago when opening band The Sads posted the event to their MySpace with few details. An Animal Collective (Panda's main band) obsessed friend gave me the heads up, and it was then th

  December 6, 2008

• Q&A With T-Pain, Performing at AAA on Sunday

  Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Konvict Muzik, upon hearing his rendition of the impresario's single, "Locked Up," back in 2005.  Since then Pain has put singles on the Top 40 almost faster than Billboard can get to print, thanks

  December 11, 2008

• The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or two in 2008. Here are the most preposterous rap songs of 2008. RICK ROSS, FEATURING T-PAIN "The Boss" (Def Jam) Though Rick Ross claimed on his debut album, Port of Miami, to know Manuel Noriega,

  December 22, 2008

• Mixtape Review: Doormouse - 100% Real Wisconsin Cheese

  I guess this is a week for me listening to local DJ's get down on mix tapes.  I know they aren't mix tapes anymore, but that's how I think of them.  There used to be little kiosks in Manhattan that us bridge and tunnel kids would flock to in order to purchase cassettes from DJ Clue?, Tony Touch, et al.  Now we have the interweb and Miami transplant Dan "Doormouse" Martin's fantastic mix 100% Real Wisconsin Cheese.  

  February 17, 2009

• Best Local Music Albums of 2008

  December 25, 2008

• Beyond the Hood

  DJ Khaled drops We Global.

  October 9, 2008

• Latest Music DVDs: Mr. Ashley Simpson, the Beatles, and Puking Strippers

  July 17, 2008

• Remaking Michael Jackson

  Why waste money on (or steal) those bogus Thriller remixes when you can get better ones legally for free?

  April 24, 2008

• Akon

  December 22, 2005

• Another Side of Page and Plant

  If the Internet had been around, would there still be a mythology of Led Zep?

  February 14, 2008

• It's in the Mix

  What not to put on that Valentine's Day CD.

  February 7, 2008

• Green's Video Gold

  October 25, 2007

• Daddy Knows Best

  September 13, 2007

• Make It Rain

  August 30, 2007

• Daddy Yankee

  July 12, 2007

• You've Been Ralphed!

  May 10, 2007

• If You Can't Riddim, Join 'Em

  March 22, 2007

• Young Jeezy featuring Akon

  September 15, 2005

• Spark It Up

  June 30, 2005

• Lean Back

  September 9, 2004

• Fresh Air

  July 15, 2004

• A Club Guide to Memorial Day Weekend 2009

  May 21, 2009

• Man Up to Memorial Day

  May 21, 2009

• No Doubt

  May 28, 2009

• Hip Hop Photographer Derick G. Shoots Photos and Videos Miami Style

  image via derickg.comAkon "So Paid" Video Shoot image via DerickG.com"For the most part I just get hired to shoot." Here are excerpts from a recent email interview with local hip hop photographer Derick G."I started in the music industries by getting on music video sets. The ball really started rolling when i was on set of "we takin over" by DJ KHALED featuring a star studded line up ...Akon ,T.I.,Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Baby, & Lil Wayne.. I just happened to be driving to South Beach going over

  June 15, 2009

• We Swear We Won't Watch Scott Storch's Reality Show -- OK, Just the Pilot

  In substance-abuse circles, you often hear talk of the moment you "hit rock bottom." For your average schmo, it usually involves stealing abuela's jewelry or fellatio behind a Burger King. For celebrities, there's an even more clear barometer of when you're smashing head-first into your own failure: the reality show. Allowing film crews full-time into your recovery usually means three things: 1) You're in desperate need of quick cash, 2) your work alone is no longer bringing you any sort of publ

  June 25, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Billy Blue mixtape, 36 Reasons

  As we embark on another hot and sweltering summer in the M.I.A., it's bound to get hotter with the release of local hip-hop heavyweight Billy Blue's new mixtape, 36 Reasons. It's a preemptive strike before his major-label debut album, The Story of My Life, due out the end of August on Poe Boy Entertainment/Interscope Records. The buzz behind Blue has been nonstop since his emergence into the grime-time Miami rap scene a year ago with his now-classic club anthem "Ball like a Dog." The track circu

  July 14, 2009

• T-Pain, Flo Rida, Ne-Yo & Akon at American Airlines Arena August 22

  ​Summerfest 2009 is going down next month at the American Airlines Arena, and it has some of hip-hop and R&B's biggest names on the bill. Ne-Yo, Akon, Flo Rida, and T-Pain are all confirmed to perform on August 22. If you're looking to get good seats, you'd better prepare to shell out a small fortune though. Lower bowl tickets are going for $349 before fees, and you can't get in the door for under $50. For fans of at least two of the acts though, you can justify the price by addin

  July 27, 2009

• Win Two Free Tickets to See DMX and DJ GQ at Revolution This Sunday, August 9

  via myspace.com/dmx​It's been three years since the last studio offering from the famously volatile DMX. That seeming artistic dry spell starting in 2006 saw just a couple of greatest-hits type releases and a few film appearances. The last we really heard of DMX locally was this past December, when he was arrested at Scott Storch's house and extradited to Maricopa County, Arizona. There he pled guilty to charges of animal cruelty, drug posession, and theft, and served a little over three month

  August 6, 2009

• Summer Fest 2009 is Postponed Due to "Weather Conditions"

  via myspace.com/brisco305Brisco was set to perform at Summer Fest​Summer Fest was an all-out megawatt concert scheduled for this Saturday at American Airlines Arena. The line-up was to feature some of the biggest names in pop, hip-hop, and R&B: Akon, Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson, and T-Pain, as well as locals like Flo Rida, Brisco, Black Dada, Wynter, and Casely.The show was officially postponed yesterday due to "weather conditions" -- tropical storms/depressions/whatever Ana and Bill, who already l

  August 19, 2009

• Riding with Poseidon

  August 20, 2009

• Q&A: Lil Jon Talks Crunk Rock, Pitbull, and Fine Wine With New Times

  ​No one gets to the top of the pop charts by being a complete idiot. Well, of course it happens for some folks once or twice. But besides a knack for hooks, it takes some serious sharp thinking to stay there. So don't make the mistake of thinking the rapper/producer/all-around svengali Lil Jon is a clown or a buffoon. His entertainment persona is definitely larger than life; even your parents can probably identify his trademark one-syllable yells. But the real man seems to be behind the b

  September 15, 2009

• Wednesday Blog Watch: Panic Bomber Calls Out Clueless Promoters, and Cassettes Still Live

  Panic Bomber lays the blog smackdown, kind of.​*Richard, a.k.a. Panic Bomber, over at Atomisk calls out a clueless promoter, LOLZ ensue. No, an unpaid local opening band should not have to provide YOUR PA and backline to save money, cheapskate. Applause to Richard for calling people out on their crap -- "exposure" and the "privilege" to play a bill is not always enough incentive for a struggling musician to actually lose money (gas, etc.), time, and trouble in the process. (I'm still amazed a

  November 18, 2009