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Forget Pain & Gain: Ten Other Real-Life Miami Capers That Should Be Made Into Movies

With Michael Bay's big-screen adaptation of Pain & Gain opening atop the box office this weekend, masses of moviegoers discovered what Miamians already knew: Pete Collins' tale of bodybuilders gone bad is one hell of a great yarn. But the Sun Gym Gang's capers barely scratch the surface of Miam ... More >>

Kate Upton, Diddy Caught Sucking Face on South Beach

What are the perks of life as a has-been Bad Boy? Well, there's continuing to cruise atop Forbes' "Hip-Hop's Wealthiest Artists" with personal riches exceeding $580 million. And then there's flashing that cash and guzzling unlimited Cîroc while sucking face with freshly single Sports Illustrated ... More >>

Customs Has Snatched $86 Million in Fake Louis Vuitton, Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones at MIA

In a blow to everyone who has expensive taste but low quality standards and lower bank accounts, Customs and Border Protections agents have snagged more than $86 million in fake luxury goods at Miami International Airport over the past six months. In fact, they've intercepted more than 505 shipments ... More >>

Rick Ross's Birthday Affair at LIV Miami, Turning 37 Like a Motherf#$%ing Bawse

Rick Ross is having a party! The Grammy-nominated Maybach Music Group guru and Wingstop franchisee will attend Sunday service at LIV, celebrating his 37th birthday with a Bawse party. Unlike normal folks' birthdays, where overindulging on ice-cream cake and Wild Turkey is both the highlight and ... More >>

Top Ten Pop Twitter Twats: From Bruno to Britney and Bieber

The battle of the mindless pop star drones is real and gory, and the bloody fields of war are found on constantly refreshing Twitter feeds. Lady Gaga and her little monsters have just been unseated as the most obnoxious and numerous fans on the planet. Justin Bieber and his army of Beliebers have s ... More >>

Digital Domain: The Fall of a Movie Empire

Rakim Announces Concert With a Live Band at The Stage Miami During Art Basel Miami Beach

Backed by DJ Eric B's expertly sampled soul-funk-R&B ejaculations, late '80s rapper Rakim was a true hip-hop innovator who broke from the first wave's Mother Goose rhyme schemes and party-shout vocal delivery. The duo is regarded as one of the all-time greats. Rakim sans Eric B? That's a slight ... More >>

Six Richest Dead Musicians: From Elvis to Jacko

You're dead. But that doesn't mean you can't earn big bucks. Shit, croaking could be the best career move ever. Forbes recently broke down this year's most paid, most dead celebrities. And six of those ultra-wealthy, superdeceased folks are in the music business. Nothing's gonna stop them from sell ... More >>

Six Richest Ladies in the Music Business: From Katy Perry to Rihanna and Britney Spears

Who's that get-it girl rakin' in all those millions? Forbes just released its list of filthiest rich bitches, counting down the leading ladies with the most cake. No surprise, Oprah tops the chart. But six musically inclined females nestled up behind her. Well, about $100 million behind. So which ... More >>

The 20 Richest Rappers: From Pitbull to Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Kanye, Jay-Z, and Dre Day

As the country sits waiting for the release of a certain Welsh cake eater's tax returns, other high-profilers are happy to let the whole world know how swole their pockets were this year. Forbes released its latest list of haha-they-have-more-money-than-you musicians. And this time, we're talkin' t ... More >>

World's Most Powerful Women in Pop: From Gaga to J.Lo and Shakira, Madonna Snubbed

See also "The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre" -- plus "Ten Richest DJs: From Pauly D to Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, and Tiesto." These days, Elton John isn't the only one treating Madonna like a "fairground stripper." Despite the 53-year-old p ... More >>

Ten Richest DJs: From Pauly D to Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, and Tiesto

See also "The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre" and "Eight Richest Musicians in Their Teens and 20s." Dear haters ... Even though beefcake-y blonde Dutch disc jockey Tiësto is kind of a corporate whore, he's also a pranksterish dude who enjoys talking shit, ... 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 >>

Mugshots Friday: Miami Heat Championship Edition

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to th ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Felons: Shoot Outs, Beat Downs, and Face Eating

In the gritty rap game, honor is everything. And honor usually means a bag full of automatic weapons at an airport. Alright, not every rapper's got a rap sheet. But if you talk the talk, you're expected to do the time. A mean MC with a big mouth is just a poser without a felony charge. And getting ... More >>

Bono's 2.3-Percent Stake in Facebook Makes Him Richest Musician in the World

See also "The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre." At 11 a.m., you can buy a piece of Facebook. That's when the social networking giant will start trading publicly on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol FB. According to Bloomberg News, "the average ... More >>

Was Tupac Shakur a Homophobe? Three Signs Makaveli Loved Gay People

At six feet, four inches and nearly 300 pounds, Suge Knight was once hip-hop's most respected feared label executive. The Death Row Records capo was often ruthless and his questionable business practices regularly involved physical violence. Rumors that he threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a hot ... More >>

Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain Onstage

Tupac's "Live" Performance Will Bring Back More Dead Artists

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 marvels at the technology that brought Tupac back to life. The lifelike image of Tupac Shakur performing onstage at Coachell ... More >>

The Worst of Coachella 2012

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- the top moments from Friday, April 20, four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram, and the five best things from Sunday, April 22. It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasan ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar at Revolution Live October 28

Lil Wayne releases Tha Carter IV

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 >>

The Roots' Black Thought, J.Period, and the Live Mixtape at Florida Room This Sunday

The Roots' Black Thought.​We're pretty sure no one's ready to think about anything beyond December 31. But for all you diehard heads, January 2 is only a couple of days away and you don't wanna miss this thing. For the first time ever, New York City mixtape king J.Period will be bringing his hig ... More >>

MP3: New Kanye West "Power Remix;" Yeezy to Release New Song Every Friday 'til Christmas

​Kanye West has been busy lately. Of course there was the day he released his video for his first single "Power" the same night as Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie," his impromptu performances, and his infamous new Twitter account. Now comes his most recent announcement: He's releasing a n ... More >>

Free Big Boi Concert on South Beach This Wednesday at SoBe Live

​If you have ever, ever professed to love hip-hop, here are two things you need to do/plan to do, immediately, if you haven't completed at least step one:1) Get Big Boi's new solo album, Sir Luscious Left Foot ... the Son Of Chico Dusty. If you haven't listened yet, well, what the hell have y ... More >>

Apparently Scott Storch is Not Using Los Angeles Public Transportation

You can take the expensive vehicles away from the flash-addicted former mega-producer, but you can't... take the flash-addicted former mega-producer away from the expensive vehicles? Something like that. Sunrise kid Scott Storch lost his mansion, pawned his yacht, and had his exotic car collection- ... More >>

And Now, Deep Thoughts With Kat Stacks

​A few years ago, Karrine Steffans, AKA "Superhead," took the hip-hop gossip world by storm when she published a memoir dishing dirt on claimed former flings such as Dr. Dre, DMX, P. Diddy, Ja Rule, and Shaquille O'Neal. Now meet her heir apparent, Miami's own Kat Stacks -- a foulmouthed, bubble- ... More >>

Q&A with Snoop Dogg, Playing Opium at the Hard Rock This Saturday, August 1

Snoop Dogg is straight up the smoothest motherfucker in the business. Pardon the French, but there's just no description more fitting. The Dogfather can pretty much take credit for defining what rappers and hip hoppers across the board tout these days as their swagger, and it's doubtful anyone would ... More >>

Head Spins: Juan BassHead

How low can you go?

Last Night: Erykah Badu and the Roots at Mizner Park Amphitheatre

Being Straight Edge in Drug-laced College Culture

Sole Sonic Force

Electro whiz Überzone dodges the formula

Busta Rhymes

New Crack City (MixUnit)

Soul Strut

Miami's own DJ Khaled drops a massive debut

Hot Chip

Rage against the establishment

Evil, Done Doggy-Style

Eminem featuring Nate Dogg

"Shake That" (Shady/Aftermath)

Big Papi

Daddy Yankee sets his sights on Miami

Cotton Candy

Whatever Happened To ...?

As 2005 heats up, let us not forget the pop novelties of years past

Work It Out

Fifteen years down the line, De La Soul is still shining, still grinding

Lean Back

Many searched for the summer banger, but only Fat Joe's Terror Squad claimed the prize

La Mala Rodríguez

Alevosía (Universal)

Smoke for Life

The sixth annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert raises funds for patients' rights

All Nas Needs is One Mike

The best rapper of all time

Eminem

The Eminem Show (Aftermath)

Kulchur

P-Funk to the sixth dimension

Swelter