Carol City

SpaceGhostPurrp and Nardwuar Rate Miami's Strip Clubs, From Coco's to KOD

"Holy fucking shit ... Is this Meshuggah?" That's how Carol City creep rapper SpaceGhostPurrp reacts when Canadian weirdo interviewer Nardwuar bestows a fine slab of Swedish metal upon him. Why? Because SGP is the rare hip-hopper with a deep and abiding fanaticism for dark and heavy death-obsessed ... More >>

Major Lazer's Walshy Fire on Most EDM Stars: "These Guys Aren't DJing"

Major Lazer shows are unlike anything else you'll see at an EDM fest. The Diplo-led crew's performances are an enthralling orgy of confetti-spraying machine guns, hyper-sexual dancing, and human-sized hamster balls, all set to a peculiar mixture of dancehall, dubstep, pop, and every other genre th ... More >>

Ultra 2013: SpaceGhostPurrp Talks Tattoos and Raider Klan at a Rave (Video)

SpaceGhostPurrp can be a prickly dude. He's so young, smart, and deep. And all that online attitude. You can't help but envy him his complexity and talent and resent what sometimes comes off as a sense of entitlement. But when we met up with the Carol City rapper at Ultra Music Festival where he p ... More >>

Miami's Top Albums, EPs, and Singles of 2012

Flo Rida: Hit Maker

The Quotable Gunplay: "Hos," "Pills," and the "Gift and Curse of Being Under Rick Ross"

Gunplay is not one to hold his tongue. The Maybach Music rapper offered so much colorful commentary during the interviews for our recent two-part feature ("How Miami's Coke-Sniffin', Po' Pimpin' Maniac Joined Rap's Power Circle" and "Gunplay on His Swastika Tattoo, Starting Escort Agency, Rebrandi ... More >>

Tragedy Again Strikes Carol City High In Shooting Death of Teenager

Also read: "The Curse: Six students in Carol City's tragic class of 2006 were murdered. Hope survives." For most people, the death of 18-year-old Carol City resident Paul Royal is simply a tragedy. A bright young man, one month away from starting college, gunned down by unknown assailants, lead ... More >>

Coco Stabs Talks His First Piercing, Clitoral Hood (Video)

Read also "Miami's Extreme Body Modifiers Brave Social Stigma and Legal Action to Pursue Their Passion."Picture 350 pounds of bearded, pierced, and tattooed flesh swinging from meat hooks shanked through back fat.That's a rough idea of what Coco Stabs does for fun.Coco is one subject of this week's ... More >>

Flo Rida, Cee Lo Green, and B.o.B. on the R U on the List Tour July 3

Miami Rapper SpaceGhostPurrp Releases Debut The Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp June 12

SpaceGhostPurrp on Releasing Chronicles LP and "Fightin' Against Fake Motherf$&#ers"

Shrouded in all-black swag, SpaceGhostPurrp can be a seriously mysterious dude. And from the very moment he began haunting the Internet's music blogs in the late winter of 2011, this enigmatically spooky Miami rapper has been carefully cultivating a cryptic mystique. His rhymes sound like the sudd ... More >>

Get Faded With Spaceghostpurrp at Eve on January 15

​In 1967, The Beatles released their sprawling Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band concept album, a dense wallop of cutting-edge experimental production techniques, schizophrenic survey of genres, and, most importantly, the psychedelic youth movement's most prominent statement. Really, the wh ... More >>

Miami's top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts

Miami's Top Ten Underground Rap and Hip-Hop Acts

​New Yorkers still think they run hip hop. Canadians say, "It ain't dead. It lives in the North." L.A. radio plays more Pitbull than we do. Houston is still leaning off a never-ending cup of codeine. NOLA's doing it in the dark. Philly, Detroit, and Chi-Town are mad because it's winter. In Miami ... More >>

Miami's Best Albums of 2011: Spaceghostpurrp's Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6

​To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami's Best Albums of 2011. Spaceghostpurrp Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (Self-Released) Spaceghostpurrp (AKA Muney Jordan) is a dark ass, blaspheming, postmodern motherfucker. Tracks off 2011's ... More >>

Freeway at Transit Lounge March 12

Freeway Moves Major Weight at Transit Lounge March 12

via myspace.com/freewaySouth Philly spitter Freeway.​In the early outlaw '80s, Freeway Ricky Ross turned crack rock into an interstate empire. Based out of Los Angeles, he cooked up megakilo after megakilo, packaged that weight, and trafficked it to every corner of the country. He traveled with ... More >>

Krop's basketball coach skirts recruiting rules

Shakey Situation: Krop High Shouldn't Have Escaped Disqualification

Steve SatterwhiteBernard Wright (center, standing) flanks coach Shakey Rodriguez during their FIU days.​This news story will appear in Wednesday's issue of New Times. It includes reporting that was published last week on our news blog, and which was referenced without attribution in this weeke ... More >>

Betty Wright Preemptively Rips Black Eyed Peas Terrible Super Bowl Halftime Show

​Betty Wright is a legendary, Grammy-winning,  Miami-based singer-songwriter who has released 16 albums.She scored her first big hit in the '70s at the age of 17 with the million-selling "Cleanup Woman." Later, she became the first black woman to release a gold record on her own label. In hip ... More >>

Our Rundown of Miami's Best Albums, EPs, and Mixtapes of 2010

The 305 in 2010 was so awesome that our heads totally exploded!​The swamps and warehouse squats, Carol City and Coco's Nightclub, South Beach and the megaclubs -- our city's music scene is the product of so many split-up, spliced, and remixed sources that any attempted overview of its output will ... More >>

Miami's best albums, EPs, and, mixtapes of 2010

Rick Ross's Miami-Less Tour, Flo-Rida Strikes Platinum Again, and More Hip-Hop News

Photo via Rick Ross' Twitter account​Carol City's boy wonder, Rick Ross, has just announced plans to tour. The Blowin Money Fast tour will take Ross across the United States before heading abroad to England, Trinidad, Haiti, South Africa, Nigeria, and other far-flung places. The preliminary tou ... More >>

Rick Ross at Mansion

Miami Central Clashes with Carol City Tonight in Battle of the Freemans

Devonta Freeman​wqam.comErnest Freeman​If you're looking for Florida's most exciting, high-octane offense, forget the Hurricanes, Gators, and Seminoles. And you sure as hell better skip the Dolphins.The most electrifying show in the sunshine state is none other than Miami Central Senior High Sch ... More >>

Rick Ross Runs the Joint, Get Corrected at Mansion October 8

via teflondonross.com​Maybe Mr. Officer Ricky Rozay never flooded the streets with keys. But the facts don't really matter. It's been two years, a couple of months, and a pair of solo albums since the Carol City rapper (real name William Leonard Roberts II) got outed as a former Florida Department ... More >>

Carol City All-Stars

305 Live: DJ Irie, Luther Campbell, Rick Ross and More in Local Hip-Hop News

Photo courtesy of DjIrie.com​Well, it happens every year and this year is no different. The official DJ of the Miami Heat, DJ Irie, kicks off his annual Irie Weekend festivities at LIV tonight. The event is slated to start at 11 p.m. and will feature DJ Irie himself and fellow Artist Related ... More >>

Song Spotlight: Phatz - "Imma Mess"

​Carol City's Phatz has stayed busy as of late. A couple months ago in late March, we featured his mixtape Palm Trees & Bomb Weed as our mixtape of the week. The release received a good amount of attention and praise locally, and Phatz even went on to release videos for a couple of the stando ... More >>

Hugo Tandron, Ex-Con, is the Marlins' official barber

Mixtape of the Week: Gunplay's new project with P-Cutta

Mixtape of the Week: Phatz - Palm Trees & Bomb Weed

​Palm Trees & Bomb Weed is an authentic product exported out of the streets of Carol City. Phatz, a native of Carol City, puts together a collective of songs displaying his ability to stay fresh in rhyme, and in style. The word "swag" has pretty much been used to exhaustion, but sometime you c ... More >>

Free Local Music: C-Ride's "The Arab Store" Album Exec Produced by Cool and Dre

C-Ride is a Carol City rapper well known in Miami's underground. You can hear his name ringing in the streets from Richmond Heights to County Line Road and past. He has a new album out called "The Arab Store" and it's available as a free download through his website. The album is executive produc ... More >>

Archive Diver: Jazz Great, Organ Player Jimmy Smith in Carol City at Studio 183 in July 1988

image via Miami New Times archives issue week July 6 - 12, 1988If you've never heard of Jimmy Smith the great jazz organ player than you're probably like most people alive today, but he's considered one of the best to have ever touched the keys and according to this concert preview from a July 1988 ... More >>

Chuck Rules, Bill Bites

Today Bill Cooke at Random Pixels took a shot at New Times and editorial jefe Chuck Strouse. He wrote: I used to love Miami New Times. When I lived in Coconut Grove I knew where the paper was delivered on Wednesday and usually snagged a copy by early afternoon. Since editor Jim Mullin's departure a ... More >>

Flo Rida Not Ridin' With Chris Brown For His Next Single

Flo Rida, Carol City's muscle-bound rapper and supporter of Floridians wearing "boots with the furrr," is apparently not so hot on appearing on tracks with guys who (allegedly) beat their pop star girlfriend. The (alleged) song is called "Sweat" and though it's been bubbling on the 'net for a few we ... More >>

The Curse

Six students in Carol City High's tragic class of 2006 were murdered. Hope survives.

Letters from the Issue of September 11, 2008

"Does it intimidate you that a black man from Queens could be compared to musicians such as Bob Dylan?"

Luther Campbell Talks 2 Live Crew, Rick Ross, and His New VH1 Reality Series

He wants to set the record straight.

Tonight in Live Music, Wednesday, August 6

Charles "She Bout It" Sweeting Saturday at the Power 96 Beach House

Chevy Spring Fest with Trick Daddy & Rick Ross

Dress Like a Clown

Today is the best day for it

Garcia

"I'm Cuban" (Crazy Hood)

Ghetto Pirates

A movie made for Bootleggers

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Blood in the Streets

The murderous violence that has recently gripped Opa-locka may have died along with its most infamous victim

Home Wreckers

Dade's home rehab loan program is more adept at breaking hearts than repairing houses

Wait'll Next Year!

Nothing like a sports championship to bring out the beast in a city

The Boulder Boys Must Die

When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?