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Lil Wayne Scuffles With Trick Daddy, Tossed Out of Miami's King of Diamonds Strip Club

"If anybody don't like it, they can die tonight." That was infamous Miami rapper and 305 rider Trick Daddy's message to Lil Wayne after the Young Money maniac told 99 Jamz (and the world) that he "don't apologize" for declaring war on the Miami Heat and its fans. Then a couple of nights ago, Trick ... 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 >>

Fact: Creed's Scott Stapp Tried to Kill Himself, Jumping Out Hotel Window on Miami Beach

With arms wide open, jumping off the balcony. In 2006, Creed singer Scott Stapp was broken and bloody, hanging six-feet from the edge at the Delano Hotel on Miami Beach. But then T.I. swooped in to save the suicidal alt-rocker. No, this isn't bullshit. It's fact. And while the rapper kept this l ... More >>

Lil Wayne's "No Frank Ocean" Slur Is the New "No Homo"

See also "Frank Ocean Is Gay: A Ten-Point History of Coming Out in Music, From Bowie to Lance Bass." There's a new way of declaring "no homo" before complimenting another dude's ridiculous abs or quipping that homie's butt sags in JNCO jeans. His name is Frank Ocean. Lil Wayne has reduced the Od ... More >>

It's a Trap! An 11-Part History of Trap Music, From DJ Screw to Gucci Mane to Flosstradamus

Trap music. It's superhuge right now with the cool kids and it's overrunning Soundcloud. Yet despite its growing popularity, a lot of people have one basic question ... What the fuck is trap? Because of recent EDM trends, many people would tell you it's the "new dubstep" or the "new moombahton." ... More >>

Eight Richest Musicians in Their Teens and 20s

See also "The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre." Just two months after naming "World's Most Powerful Celebrities," Forbes is back on the arbitrary list beat and ranking the "Highest-Paid Stars under 30." Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber made a combined $122 mi ... More >>

Uncle Luke Coaches the Heat to NBA Title and Other Rappers' Celebratory Tweets

If you're truly reppin' the 305, you know the Miami Heat scorched it last night, stomping the OKC Thunder and seizing the title of 2012 NBA Champions. For the rest of the weekend, this whole city is going into crazed, half-conscious party mode. And since it's Miami, you know that means a lot of ra ... 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 >>

King of Diamonds: How America's Favorite Black Strip Club Won Its Crown

Click for King of Diamonds cover shoot outtakes.

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 >>

Lil Wayne Settles "Lollipop" Legal Drama for $20 Million

It only took about 400 days, but Lil Wayne's $20-million "Lollipop" legal drama has finally been settled. Last year, producer Darius "Deezle" Harrison filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records for unpaid royalties from sales of Weezy's 2008 Gramm ... More >>

Rick Ross, Pitbull, and Other Rappers' Paternity Suits

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 >>

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 >>

Young Money Cash Money Billionaires at Mekka February 17

Drake's Club Paradise Tour Kickoff Concert on Valentine's Day in Miami

​See the full 20-photo Drake at BankUnited Center slideshow. Drake's Club Paradise Tour With ASAP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar BankUnited Center at University of Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: Slightly dirty sweet talk that's not set to million-dollar beats. Have you ever visited Clu ... More >>

Fact: Lil Wayne Isn't Actually a Billionaire

​Did you know that Young Money Cash Money Billionaire boss Lil Wayne isn't actually a billionaire? Well, homie ... It's true. Despite squashing his $5.6-million beef with the IRS, slanging 1.92 million copies of Tha Carter IV in this totally shitty economy, ranking among Billboard's Top Artists f ... More >>

Miami's ten best New Year's 2012 parties

DJ Khaled's Birthday Bash at Mansion November 25

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 >>

Lil Wayne, Puff Daddy, and DJ Khaled get a deadline

Lil Wayne And DJ Khaled Are Gonna Lose Their Miami Residency

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke doesn't like how Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled use Miami but don't give back to the Magic City. I've got a m ... More >>

Lil Wayne Earns 18 BET Hip Hop Awards Nominations, Tweets About "Wakk" Skate Park

​Earlier this morning, Lil Wayne shot off a sour-ass tweet about a "wakk" Nebraskan "Sk8 park." Evidently, the Cash Money Millionaire was too busy skating shitty ramps and rails to address the news of his 18 BET Hip-Hop Awards nominations. Naturally, Mr. Carter received nods for his personal sty ... More >>

Lil Wayne releases Tha Carter IV

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Keri Hilson at Cruzan Amphitheatre August 2

Five Signs Lil Wayne's Gone Soft

​Prior to serving 11 months on Riker's Island, the world knew (and loved) Lil Wayne for being a delightfully schizoid celeb, hypercompetitive workaholic, and the Best Rapper Alive. He dictated the game, ate candy by the pound, sold a gazillion albums, guzzled promethazine-and-codeine cocktails li ... 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 >>

Three Acoustic Lil Wayne Covers to Celebrate Weezy's MTV Unplugged Episode

​Did you see last week's episode of 16 and Pregnant? It was about a vulnerable teen girl and her decision to keep the baby growing in her junior-year belly. It's OK if you missed it, though. MTV will probably air that episode again. But don't expect it to be on June 12 at 9 p.m. 'cause that's wh ... More >>

Five Key Moments in the Chronology of Hipster Hop

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

T-Pain and Jay Sean Autotune the Ass Off Marlins Super Saturdays

We in a stadium, bitch!​It's Saturday night. The Marlins just smacked the hell out of the Nationals. And now you need autotune. And lots of it. Luckily, Teddy Paine is in the building. His Cash Money buddy Jay Sean is there too. And together, they will provide more electronically manipulated v ... More >>

Cash Money Records' Birdman Hosting B-Day Bash for Phil the Mayor at Club Play

Cash Money's Birdman -- AKA Baby, Lil Wayne's Daddy, Mr. Millionaire, Bryan Williams.​Who is Phil the Mayor? He is a nationwide party promoter, and the Thursday-through-Sunday boss in Miami.What's happening this Friday? His birthday.Why should you care? Well, it's at Club Play on South Beach, you' ... More >>

Brisco Gives the President Some Career Advice

Brisco says: "That rocked!"​"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream." -- Willy Wonka "You can say to this mountain, 'May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. You can pray f ... More >>

Bigg D: The Next Music Mogul

Nine Years After DJ Uncle Al's Death, Miami's Hip-Hop Scene Remembers the Legend

​Even nine years after his horrific murder, DJ Uncle Al's name still rings heavy in the streets of Liberty City. In what was said to be a case of mistaken identity, Al's death on September 10, 2001 was overshadowed by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Four years after th ... 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 >>

28 Random Lil Wayne Lyrics for His 28th Birthday

Jonathan Mannion / Cash Money Records​Lil Wayne celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday at New York City's Rikers Island. And even though he's currently locked up (due back in a month or so), he and his Cash Money Records crew also used his birthday to release the digital version of Weezy's new alb ... More >>

305 Live: DJ Khaled signs to Cash Money, Rick Ross & Slim Thug seem to now have beef, and more in our Local Hip Hop News

Photo by David "Dro" Rosario​-- Apparently, DJ Khaled's contract with E1 Records (formerly KOCH Records) expired after the release of his latest album Victory, which spawned the ultra successful single "All I Do Is Win". Well, after bring affiliated with them for years, it seems that DJ Khaled h ... More >>

Drake, Cash Money Records Being Sued for Copyright Infringement By ... Playboy?

​We love a good lawsuit just as much as the next person, but we never thought we'd utter these words: Drake is being sued by Playboy? The rapper -- who caused riots in New York City just a few weeks ago when he scheduled a free concert with Hanson at the South Street Seaport -- apparently sam ... More >>

Cash Money Records, now based in Miami, again dominates the charts like it's 1999

Derick G. Makes Documentaries for Cash Money Records and Lil Wayne

We last spoke to local hip-hop shooter Derick G. back in June when he had just leveraged his still image work into the world of moving pictures, in high definition.Derick recently hit a new phase in his career when he gained unprecedented access to roll with Cash Money Records as a documentarian ... More >>

Kevin Rudolf Is Cash Money's First Rock Act

And it doesn't hurt that Lil Wayne is on the "gangsta emo" guy's debut single.

On Location at Lil Wayne's "Mrs. Officer" Video Shoot

Head Spins: DJ Irie

The king of clubs, and official Miami Heat DJ, now boasts a namesake party weekend.

Sane in the Membrane

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

Trick Daddy Bids Farewell to Slip-N-Slide

And launches his own Dunk Ryder imprint.

The Birdman Lands

Cash Money’s top exec comes to roost in Miami

The Death of Rap City

Mr. Mauricio

Mirage

A South Beach parking lot gets papered in cash money