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Gaslamp Killer Murdered Bardot Miami, Joined On Decks by DJ Craze

Over the weekend at Bardot, the Gaslamp Killer honored America's fallen soldiers with what has to have been one of the best performances the loungey hangout has ever seen. It was heart-pumping, body-shaking insanity from start to finish. The loud and proud no-shits-given artist wasn't holding anyt ... More >>

Miami's Memorial Day Weekend 2013 Party Guide

Everyone's 'bout to get long-weekend wild. It's almost Memorial Day in Miami. There are way too many megaclub and nudie bar parties. But "yeah, yeah, uh," we're still gonna attend 'em all. As Mr. Trinidad says: "Got new shoes, got new clothes ... We got bad bitches and a ton of brew." It's work ... More >>

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 >>

Cinco de Massive: Craze! Pepe Billete! Nadastrom! Sabo! Grand Central Miami!

Face it, you have no idea what Cinco de Mayo is about. No, it's not Mexican Independence. But you know what? It doesn't really matter. We're just happy to have an excuse to drink all the tequila, Corona, and Dos Equis we want, and get the chance to shake our asses to some moombahton. For everyone w ... More >>

Rap Music's Top Six Paternity Suits

Did you know that Ol' Dirty Bastard had 13 kids, three of whom he neglected to pay child support for in 1997 alone? Illegitimate children are overwhelmingly common in rap music. From Brooklyn to the Louisiana bayou, rappers' baby mamas have tried pushing paternity suits on their rhyming exes ever s ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2012: Miami's Guide to Partying Too Hard and Drinking Too Much

Photo by JipsySeize New Year's Eve!​Wanna know the truth about New Year's Eve? Well, it ain't the kickoff to a fresh, 365-day fiesta full of fun and promise. Quite the opposite -- this end-of-year holiday is your absolute last chance to overspend and overindulge before suppressing your natural ur ... More >>

Basketball Wives' Evelyn Lozada Sues Media Take Out for Claiming She Slept With Terrell Owens

Media Take Out is basically the wild, wild West of Internet gossip. "The most visited urban website in the world" trades freely in outrageous claims. OK, its top headlines right now include questioning Tupac's heterosexuality, praising Kanye's oral sex technique, and implying that Busta Rhymes has h ... More >>

Chris Brown at American Airlines Arena October 5

Black Star's Mos Def and Talib Kweli at the Fillmore Miami Beach, September 27

​Black Star's Mos Def and Talib Kweli With Jay Rock, Black Bobby, and DJ D-Up Presented by Rock the Bells Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Better Than: Most Tuesdays on God's great spaceship, Earth. Time travel can be a really good time. Especially when you're talking about takin ... More >>

Should We All Forgive Chris Brown for Slugging Rihanna and Spewing Homophobic Slurs?

​Team Breezy isn't just a gang of crazy wife-beaters and delusional, masochistic teenaged girls. All types -- tweens, thugs, and grandmas alike -- revel in Chris Brown's immense talents, even after he slugged Rihanna, trashed Good Morning America's studio, and spewed homophobic slurs at the papara ... More >>

Wyclef Jean at Sun Life Stadium, September 3

via Facebook.com/Wyclef​Wyclef Jean Sun Life Stadium September 3, 2011 Better Than: Being president of Haiti. Or at least, that's what Wyclef tells himself. The last Super Saturday concert I went to after a Florida Marlins game at Sun Life Stadium, the lead singer of KC and The Sunshine Band pul ... More >>

Ten Most Badass TV Theme Songs of the '80s

Knight Rider​Say what you will about '80s TV shows -- the one-dimensional characters and ludicrous plot devices -- but they just don't make theme songs like they used to. If you were alive and watching television in the '80s, then you've most likely got the intro music to classic shows like Knight ... More >>

Crossfade's Guide to Day One at Best of the Best 2011 With Chris Brown, Rick Ross, and Others

Join the Boss and go ball with the best.​It's almost Memorial Day weekend. And as any backyard playa who's ever organized a badass barbecue block party will recognize, you can't honestly call it a holiday blowout unless you hold strong and fast to the following checklist: (1) The guest list should ... More >>

Girl Talk at the Fillmore Miami Beach, May 19

Photo by Marta Xochilt PerezGirl Talk (AKA Gregg Gillis) getting wild at the Fillmore.​View photos from Girl Talk at the Fillmore Miami Beach here.Girl Talk With Max Tundra Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, May 19, 2011 Better Than: An impromptu cock-rocking rave in a confetti supply store. Just pa ... More >>

Diplo Takes on Reggae, Chris Brown, KPop and Hard Miami at Grand Central Tonight

Diplo's about to set it on fire!​Ahhhhhh, Diplo. Miami loves nothing more than a good ol' Florida boy who can DJ big bass and has a tattoo of a manatee holding a machine gun on his chest. Mr. Wes Pentz was here only a couple of weeks ago with his hybrid dancehall outfit, Major Lazer, at the Ma ... More >>

Talib Kweli Takes Over Favela Beach Tonight and AE District Tomorrow

​Ever since Lil Wayne got out of the clink last week, the hip-hop industry has been insanely buzzed about what Lil Tunechi's gonna do next. Yet, for diehard heads who've been with the game since Busta was just a shortie in Leaders of the New School, hip-hop's never lost its excitement or fervo ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Free Today! Young Money Engineer Mike Banger Gives Us Tha Carter 4 Scoop

via weezythanxyou.com​Behind every good chart-topping song is a good producer, usually -- but behind all that, and often sticking longer-term with the artist him- or herself, is a good engineer. In honor of today, the Biggest Day In Hip-Hop History of 2010, the day Lil Wayne finally goes free, C ... More >>

Will Castro and Unique Autosports: DJ Khaled and Miami's One-Stop Shop for Celebrity Rides

​Will Castro and Unique Autosports are both brands in themselves. Unique, once based in New York and now Miami, encompasses a car customization business as well as cable TV titles for the Speed Network and Spike TV. Boasting celebrity clients like Diddy, the cast of the Jersey Shore, 50 Cent, and ... More >>

DJ Stevie J Talks About This Weekend's Festivities, Including a Free Show with Ne-Yo at Club Play Tonight

Photo courtesy of FLFM/ Club PlayDj Stevie J with Diddy​DJ Stevie J first got his start with legendary Miami-based promoters Headliner Market Group, and he's still rolling along with them five years later. He's been at the the forefront of many of Miami's hottest parties over the past couple of ye ... More >>

Mixtape of the Week: The Game's Brake Lights

Mixtape Of The Week: DJ Skee and the Game - Brake Lights, Executive Produced by Cool & Dre

​The Game and Cool & Dre have a long history together. "Hate It Or Love It," from 2005, was the first collaboration among the three. Since then, they've frequently worked together, with Cool and Dre landing placements on all of the Game's subsequent albums.Fast forward to 2010, and the Game ha ... More >>

Photos: Rick Ross Teflon Don Signing at Pembroke Pines Best Buy

Rick Ross fans turned out in droves to the Best Buy in Pembroke Pines Tuesday afternoon to ​get their copies of Teflon Don signed by the Don himself. The highly anticipated album hit stores Tuesday morning and was met by positive reviews and tons of celebrity endorsement. Despite the uny ... More >>

305 Live: Kanye West, Rick Ross, Ghostwridah, DJ Khaled, and More in Local Hip-Hop News

Photo courtesy of Spiff TV​-Hip-hop fans can officially relax now that Rick Ross and company have released the Kanye West collabo track from Teflon Don titled "Live Fast, Die Young". The track features Kanye on the second verse as well as on the production side.Recorded in Hawaii not too long ago, ... More >>

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from ArtOfficial, Rick Ross, Mayday, and More

ArtOfficial​--Local hip-hop and jazz fusion group, ArtOfficial, released a new song from their new project, The Payback, which is set to release on April 23rd via free download. The song they released is actually the title track that is also called "The Payback" and features New York City's K. Spa ... More >>

Top picks for the 17th annual Marley Fest

Super Bowl 2010: Rihanna, Nas, Pitbull, Black Eyed Peas and More Performing this Weekend

We gotta feeling it's going to a jam-packed music weekend.​So it's coming: a giant tsunami of NFL athletes, super fans, and über-celebrities that's about to engulf the magic city with over-the-top poolside parties and non-stop open bar access. And as much as Super Bowl XLIV weekend is all about t ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Miner

Bella Rose's weekend warrior.

Various Artists

Blackstars: Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Outhere)

The Party Crasher - Rick Ross Trilla Release Party at Mansion

Last Night: Concert for Fair Food at Bayfront Park

Tuesday Morning Music Fix: OutKast, the Kills, Animal Collective, J Dilla and more

Penthouse and Pavement

Areas of concern: The deaths of vinyl, gabardine, and celluloid

VMA Weekend

Jean Luc Godard, meet Busta

Memorial Day Weekend

The Bitch

Potemkin

Funked Up

Mos Def

The New Danger Geffen

Hip-Hop Cyrano

Meet Smitty, one of the most successful lyricists you've never heard of

City Slackers

Poverty, dancehall, and sound systems in modern-day Kingston, Jamaica

Ruggish-N-Real

The air might be a little hazy, but Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's voice is clear

Not a Dirty Word

Tiesto is the master of trance, and he doesn't care who doesn't like it

By the Book

Nonpoint studies metal hard

Natty Dread Learns to Rap

Rastas and b-boys find common ground in Marley's legacy

Cooking Up Beats in Hell's Kitchen

Ming & FS create hip-hop heaven

Rotations

Yat-Kha; Dres

Zaftig Beats

The Once and Future King

You Can Call Him Himmy

A Pirate's Mutiny

Miami's unlicensed radio stations are pumping up the jams despite the FCC's efforts to shut them up

The Beat Surrender