Birdman (Rapper)

Rick Ross, Birdman, Lil Wayne, Sooo Many Girls: The H Album Release at Story Miami

Last night, the double-helix LED columns inside Story for Rick Ross and Birdman's The H: The Lost Album, Vol. 1 release party cycled through a very swank array of trippy colors as a 7-to-1 ratio of tourist women to NFL ballers danced, drank, and partied till 5 in the morning. South Beach bars make ... More >>

DJ Paris Hilton Signs to Cash Money: Five Reasons Her "House Album" Will Suck Balls

Paris Hilton must really love abuse, because she just signed a record deal with Cash Money to release her follow-up to 2006's weird and critically-forgotten Paris. She plans to release a "house album." And, like, nothing about a fluffy hip-hop label signing a talentless heiress to make EDM music s ... More >>

Diddy's a Has-Been, Still Worth $580 Million

There's something funny about money. Once you have a certain amount of it, those greenbacks just keep multiplying. You don't really have to do anything, except sit back and watch that money tree fruit up. Just look at Diddy. He hasn't done anything in years, and he's still the richest dude in rap. ... More >>

DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne's "Bitches & Bottles": The Most Expensive Vodka Commercial Ever

If we've learned anything from all the 30 Rock we've been watching, it's that product integration is the future of successful American capitalism. This is a lesson echoed with superb execution in the modern rap community, most members of which have a variety of products their hocking at any given t ... More >>

Photos: Birdman Buys Scott Storch's Old Miami Mansion for $14.5 Million

The 20,000-square-foot Palm Island mansion that once belonged to fallen prince of hip hop Scott Storch is now rightfully back in the hands of rap royalty. Birdman, the guy everyone from Nicki Minaj to Drake calls "boss," just scooped up the massive home for $14.5 million. 

Chris Brown Drops Drake Diss Track: "You a Pussy Nigga"

It's been a fortnight, motherfucker. But Chris Brown and Drake still be beefing. Even though Lil Wayne and Birdman asked very nicely that both parties squash that shit. On June 14, Breezy and Drizzy got into a bottle-throwing fight, allegedly sparked by a dispute over Barbadian pop star Rihanna. A ... More >>

Miami Heat Win NBA Championship, Rick Ross Skips the Victory and Gets High in Jamaica

Last night, Rick Ross sold out Miami, choosing to get high in the Caribbean over the Magic City and foregoing an opportunity to watch his Miami Heat win the NBA title. "I'm in Jamaica relaxing," Rozay tweeted just three hours before tip-off. "Smoke one." While puffing Kingston kush and kicking i ... More >>

Birdman to Chris Brown: "If You F#$%in' With Drake, You F#$%in' With Us, Period"

See also "Chris Brown and Drake Allegedly Fight Over Rihanna Inside New York City Afterhours Club." Before you start a club fight with Drake, consider the warning YMCMB honcho Birdman has for Chris Brown: "Drake is one of us. So if you fuckin' with Drake, you fuckin' with us. Period." Birdman cal ... More >>

Ace Hood's Fisker Karma and Seven Other Hip-Hop Eco-Whips

Recently, Ace Hood was back in town shooting the video for his feature on DJ Absolut's "Untouchable." And like most ballers, Ace was driving a sick whip. But what's notable is he was driving a Fisker Karma, a hybrid that can get 52 miles per gallon. Between money and marijuana, hip-hop was already ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Birdman, and YMCMB's Memorial Day Party at Cameo Miami: A 37-Photo Recap

Cameo is to Washington Avenue what sand is to the beach. And Saturday night's YMCMB party proved it. StrongArm DJ Entice celebrated a birthday, Flo Rida got hype, and the Young Money crew bought so many bottles that the club ran out of sparklers. Even Gucci Mane came through stunting. We never d ... More >>

Memorial Day 2012: Fifteen Best Rap Parties in Miami and South Beach

See also "Memorial Day 2012: Six Best Electronic Music Parties Around Miami." The Beach is about to get flooded, son. At this very moment, there are 250,000 rappers, DJs, celebs, porn stars, strippers, and regular people packing the Hummer full of champagne, cash money, and 12 changes of clothes. ... More >>

Top 15 Memorial Day Weekend Parties in Miami

Floyd Mayweather Added to Birdman's Memorial Day Strip Club Party in Miami

See also "Memorial Day 2012: Fifteen Best Parties in Miami and South Beach." Money never sleeps. A few weeks ago, boxing god and self-described "human ATM" Floyd Mayweather Jr. took lil' buddy Justin Bieber on a field trip to Vegas, defended his immaculate record against Miguel Cotto, and banked $ ... More >>

Betty Wright: "Every Time I Start Singing They Say It's R&B"

Last week, Miami soul queen Betty Wright opened up about her recent collaborative album with the Roots, Betty Wright: The Movie; her unlikely friendship with Lil Wayne and Birdman; and the meaning of Mother's Day, which she'll honor this year with a co-headlining show at the James L. Knight Center w ... More >>

YMCMB Movie: Five Rules for Joining Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Birdman's Rich Gang

The Young Money Cash Money Billionaires run every kind of racket. They got the rap game on lock. They got those drank endorsements. They even got that fashion shit. And now they're making movies. In a recent interview with XXL, Birdman confessed there's a blockbuster in the works starring the whol ... More >>

Eight Late '90s Acts (and One Whole Genre) We Beg Cash Money Records Not To Revive

​In one of the last week's less predictable music developments, Lil Wayne announced that Cash Money Records had signed Fred Durst-led late '90s relics Limp Bizkit. Does this mean we could be in store for a late '90s nu-metal revival? The four year period right before the end of the millennium wa ... More >>

Miami's ten best New Year's 2012 parties

Miami's Twelve Best New Year's 2012 Parties

Soar like a half-naked angel this NYE with Bob Sinclar.​Forget your personal trainer, chartered accountant, and life coach. We here at Crossfade are the highest authority on how to spend New Year's in Miami. And we say: "This is no time for moderation!" Go live out the dying days of 2011 in a ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Birdman, and DJ Khaled Performing at MTV's Sucker Free Awards in Miami

Photo by Sayre BermanLil Wayne ain't no sucker.​Admittedly, we here at Crossfade have gotten into the habit of hatin' on Lil Wayne. We ragged on "How to Love" for months. We insisted on enumerating the top five signs that the Young Money maniac's finally gone soft. We called Tha Carter IV crap. W ... More >>

Mark Cuban Spent $110,000 at LIV and Then Spooned With the NBA Championship Trophy

via skindoeshoopsJust another gigantic German shotgunning $80,000 worth of champagne.​We'll give Mark Cuban this: After he ripped out Miami's heart, he at least put a little juice back into the Miami Beach economy Sunday night at LIV's back-stabbing Lil Wayne postgame bacchanalia. Fox S ... More >>

Birdman Lost His $2 Million Heat Bet but Still Parties With Mavericks

​Last night was brutal for Miamians, but considering rapper Birdman had boasted he made a $2 million bet on the Heat in the NBA Finals, we figured he'd be a bit more despondent than the rest of us. Apparently watching his team and bank account lose didn't stop Baby from having a good time las ... More >>

Rapper Birdman's Investment Plan: A $2 Million Bet on the Heat

​In these still shady economic times, placing a bet on the Miami Heat seemed as sound an investment plan as any. At least, that's probably what rapper and Cash Money Records co-founder Birdman thought. He announced on Twitter that he made a $2 million bet on the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals. Suffi ... More >>

Get Down for Free With Carnaval on the Mile This Weekend

via myspace.com/thelegendaryjcsThe Legendary JC's leader Eugene Snowden.​Who says Coral Gables is stuffy? Um, just about everybody who doesn't live there. But this Saturday through Sunday, you can get down for free to some of the best local and national acts spread out across three big stages at ... More >>

Five Local Bands Best Served With a Gallon of Hard Liquor

via facebook.com/furiousdudesGet drunk and go party with Furious Dudes.​A great man once said, "Go big or go home." That particular philosophy applies to almost everything in life -- surfing, rocking the fuck out, and guzzling a gallon of hard liquor. In that spirit, here's a nice list to help y ... More >>

Birdman's "Fire Flame" Video: An Exhaustive Analysis

​Like a growing number of Americans, Bryan "Birdman" Williams works from home. At least, that's what we took from the Miami transplant's epic new music video, "Fire Flame", in which he spends the day conducting all of his business-- which involves the trading of a lot of briefcases-- without l ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Homecoming: Exclusive Red-Carpet Shots With Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Tons More

Photo by Ian Witlen​See the full Lil Wayne Welcome Home Party slideshow. It had been eight months since Weezy'd seen the streets. So he wasn't gonna waste his first weekend of freedom. On Friday, the Young Money Cash Money prince made a straight shot for New Orleans to see the Hornets vs. King ... More >>

Birdman Was Lying About Becoming Minority Owner of the Miami Dolphins, Maybe

​Yesterday we linked to a report by the Miami Herald's Armando Salguero saying that rapper Birdman was awaiting approval from the NFL to become the latest celeb minority owner of the Miami Dolphins. Then Salguero did some followup with the league and Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. Turns out Birdman ... More >>

Rapper Birdman Says He's Close To Becoming Yet Another Minority Owner of the Miami Dolphins

​The Miami Dolphins are in the midst of a two-game losing streak. They just fired their special teams coach after they single-handedly lost the game against the New England Patriots. The starting quarterback position is in doubt. Their football czar is about to walk away, leaving a lot of question ... More >>

Birdman's $2.5 Million Bugatti Veyron Takes Over the Streets of Miami Beach

​Bryan "Birdman" Williams is one half of the Williams brothers who own Cash Money Records, the record label responsible for bringing some of the biggest southern hip-hop artists like Lil Wayne to the world. The label was formerly based in New Orleans, but after the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, ... More >>

One Party United Under Hip-Hop

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke starts a worldwide political movement.Around this time last year, undercover racist movement Take America Back began to take s ... More >>

Rick Ross Releases Free Albert Anastasia EP For Memorial Day Weekend 2010

​We all know that the music industry isn't the same anymore for all of these artists and record labels. And in hip-hop, artists have capitalized on being able to put out free mixtapes to promote their upcoming store-bound projects. As such, Rick Ross has been preparing his Memorial Day Weeken ... More >>

Hip-hop groupie Kat Stacks dishes Z-list dirt

Prunk TV: Lil Wayne Gets Locked Up Today, Cash Money Relocating to New York

Life is a fucked up game. You're winning Grammys, performing at sold -out arenas around the world, smoking blunts all day, wearing a million-dollar watch, and living on your own planet one minute. Next thing you know, you're arrested, then sentenced, and floating down shit's creek without a paddle. ... More >>

PrunkTV: Cash Money Heroes, Part 2

I'd rather be pushin' flowers, than in the pen sharin' showers. Most Prunk TV episodes get like 60-200 views in a month. But, this Cash Money episode that I put up on Monday has almost 4,000 views as of this writing. People are putting up comments on You Tube like: its getting leaked sometime this m ... More >>

Young Money Album Released Today

We are not the same, I am a martian. I recently spent a Friday night in the studios with the Cash Money Heroes as they worked on a new Kevin Rudolf song featuring Lil Wayne, Jay Sean, and Birdman. Here is some footage of Baby in the studio, and watching Sports Center. Miami loves Cash Money. I have ... More >>

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 ... More >>

New Fat Joe Album Features Beats by Palm Beach Producer Schife

 South Florida loves Fat Joe; he seems to be here so often we can almost claim him as one of our own. So it was with some interest that I read this MTV News Mixtape Daily blog post on his latest album, Jealous Ones Still Envy 2 (J.O.S.E. 2). But it was this quote that stopped me, about the trac ... More >>

Tattoo U

Jose Carrera, accused of attempted murder, inked his way to fame.

VIDEO: Birdman & Lil Wayne "Always Strapped" Video Shoot Behind The Scenes

Here's exclusive behind the scenes footage from the Birdman & Lil Wayne feat. Mack Maine video shoot for their song "Always Strapped." The song is forthcoming on Birdman's new album, Priceless. Footage shot by the "how is he everywhere at once" hip-hop photographer Derick G. Enjoy

Lil Wayne Announces Concert at American Airlines Arena

We'd Kiss Birdman For a Milli Too

Sane in the Membrane

Believe it or not, Lil Wayne is cool, calm, and calculating.

Birdman Lands in Jail but Still Flies the Coop

The Birdman Lands

Cash Money’s top exec comes to roost in Miami

From Hialeah to Heartache

Churchill's keeps South Florida rocking

In Clubland

Two big rock (yes, music) parties

Best Music Video

Clambake 2000

Into the Night

Mother's Finest

The Brothers bring color to their music if not not their wardrobe

The Price They Pay

Even with lower manufacturing costs, CDs can be a pricey proposition for independent acts, especially those bands aiming for a professional look and sound. The studio and production expenses can be staggering.