Drake (Rapper)

Hip-Hop's Five Most Annoying Buzzwords

Let's face it, hip-hop is pretty stupid. Not, like, inherently. Because it used to be about self-reflection, empowerment, and fun. Now, though, the mainstream rap community's message can be boiled down to a handful of misguided concepts, spewed and propagated by lying hacks. There's almost nothin ... More >>

The XX at Fillmore Miami Beach February 5

Future, T.I., and New Year's Eve 2013 at Cameo on South Beach

Future With T.I. and B.o.B. Cameo, Miami Beach Monday, December 31, 2012 Future was slated to go on at midnight. But Cameo is a long way from Pluto so his landing got delayed. In the meantime, Baltimore club legend DJ Class's "I'm the Shit" remix dropped over the club speakers, with Kanye braggin ... More >>

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve Parties

Miami's 13 Best New Year's Eve 2013 Parties

When Miami throws an end-of-year blowout, it's guaranteed that everyone is going home broke. And drunk. And accompanied by some creepy-sexy stranger who'll ask for money in the morning. So if you wanna wake up in 2013 with empty pockets, a booze-damaged brain, and a bed full of hot mess, check out ... More >>

Drake's Top 26 YOLO Lyrics in Honor of His 26th Birthday

Holy shit! Drake is another year older today. So no longer can we say he's "25 sitting on 25 mil." Although, if his lyrical content is any indication, he's already stacked enough paper to match his new age and then some. Like, seriously, this guy is the king of self-hatred-meets-braggadocio. At a ... More >>

Drake Graduates High School (Not Degrassi)

About four years after Jimmy Brooks graduated from Degrassi Community School, Aubrey Drake Graham can finally say he's got a high school diploma. Without it, the Canadian superstar managed to have a successful child-acting and rap career. 'Cause you don't need basic algebra to hang with Lil Wayne, ... More >>

Uncle Luke to French Montana, YMCMB, and Diddy: "I'm Looking For My 'Pop That' Check"

Somebody isn't paying the piper, and he's getting on MTV and bitching about it on red carpets. French Montana's big pool party hit "Pop That," featuring verses from Miami resident rappers Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake, seems to owe a lot of its success to a well-chopped sample from Uncle Luke's " ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Brawls Ever! From 2Pac to Diddy's Gun and Juggalos vs. Headbangers

The most recent edition of the annual BET Hip-Hop Awards was less trophies-and-speeches and more WWE Monday Night Raw. First and foremost, the Bawse Ricky Ross stirred up some seriously harsh vibes when he and Young Jeezy got into a spitty spat that resulted in the senseless smashing of a mirror. ... More >>

YMCMB: Seven Signs of the Young Money Empire's Decline

Alright, the YMCMB crew is definitely at the top of the world right now. But it seems like things are beginning to go astray. The label's Holy Trinity is Wayne, Drake, and Nicki. But lately, they're doing strange things, picking dumb fights with other famous people, and garnering the wrong kinds of ... More >>

BET Hip-Hop Awards 2012 Nominations: Rick Ross Gets Trampled by Kanye West

And the nominees are ... Kanye West, a handful of other MCs, and seven websites. During 106 and Park last night, actor-comedian Mike Epps announced that he'd be reprising his role as host of BET's annual Hip-Hop Awards, airing October 9, and revealed some of this year's nominees. Yeezy was nomin ... More >>

MTV Video Music Awards 2012's Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers

If, last night, you shouted, "Screw crappy pop!" and chose Barack, then you've probably got no effing idea who won and lost at the MTV Video Music Awards. Luckily, we here at Crossfade own a DVR. So while watching Obama goin' hard at the Democratic National Convention, we were also keeping track of ... More >>

MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn't Totally Suck

See also "MTV Video Music Awards 2012's Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers." Last night, America's pop culture elite came together in Los Angeles to celebrate almost 30 years of Moonmen. It was the 28th annual MTV Video Music Awards, and it coulda been worse. For one, Chris Brown and Drake didn't ... More >>

MTV Announces Video Music Awards Nominees, Snub Rick Ross

Like the History Channel, MTV is lying about itself. Despite their respective names, programming is anything but historical or musical. For example, Teen Mom and Snooki and JWoww are reality-ish shows, and they're light-years away from MTV's traditional business model built around a 24-hour music ... More >>

Ice Age: Continental Drift: Scrat Is Best, but Rest Is Meh

French Montana, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake's "Pop That Pussy" Pool Party: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

Shit is poppin' and it ain't no Redenbacher. French Montana is back with another boobie-shaking music video featuring Drake, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and one sick-ass 2 Live Crew sample. In true Miami pool party fashion, there's plenty of near-nude bitches, squirt-gun violence, product placement, and ... More >>

Six Rap Tag Teams Who Probably Had Sex in the Studio

We've got a theory that can no longer be ignored. Every time we see a sweet R&B starlet hook up with a rough and rowdy rapper for a Top 40 banger, we can't help imagining all the hot and sweaty sex they must've had while recording. We used to think it was just us being disgusting. But recent e ... More >>

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 >>

Chris Brown and Drake Allegedly Fight Over Rihanna Inside New York City Afterhours Club

Chris Brown says that when you "party [with] a rich nigga that hate," bottles get thrown and chins get busted open. According to TMZ, Team Breezy and rapper Drake's entourage allegedly got into an afterhours scuffle at a New York City club last night. It was a bottle-throwing bout that seemingly e ... More >>

Lil Wayne and Drake Owe Vegas Club $400,000; Ozzie Guillen Shouts Out Weezy

Last year, it was a $5.6-million IRS tax debt. Last month, it was a $20-million "Lollipop" lawsuit settled out of court. Today, it's a $400,000 judgment for not popping bottles at a Las Vegas nightclub. Lil Wayne and his Canadian BFF, Drake, have been ordered to fork over $432,337.50 to Imperial E ... More >>

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

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Michael Bublé is Better Than Drake, According to Canada

​Is the proof in the proverbial Canadian pudding, the Juno Awards, Canada's equivalent to the Grammy's, that Drake is mad soft? Last night, while we watched Taylor Swift walk away with another Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Scien ... More >>

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 >>

Drake's Club Paradise Tour at BankUnited Center February 14

DJ Khaled's "I'm On One": Five Reasons Why It Was 2011's Most Miami-Tastic Music Video

The Metromover's THE BEST!​Pitchfork just declared "I'm On One"-- DJ Khaled's melancholy baller anthem featuring Drake, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross -- one of the ten best tracks of 2011. That's fine. But how could they not mention the video? As Miamians, when we watched this vid, we felt as if our ... More >>

Drake Announces 2012 Club Paradise Tour Dates, Kicking Off in Miami on Valentine's Day

​What's overly emotional Young Money rapper Drake doin' right now? Well, if the cover of his recently released sophomore slab, Take Care, were a candid snapshot of Drizzy's private life, you'd think homeboy spent his days and nights locked alone in his billion-dollar mansion like Al Pacino in Sca ... More >>

17,000 People Hate Jay-Z and Kanye West

Photo by Sayre BermanMiami loved the Jiggaman. But Facebook's full of haters.​As we pointed out yesterday, 210 people on Facebook absolutely abhor DJ Khaled. But that's only a fraction of the haters who think Kanye West is a "complete wanker" and that Jay-Z "is a disgrace to the music business." ... 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 >>

Drake Drops Uncle Luke Diss on "The Motto"

​On October 6, booty bass boss, First Amendment enthusiast, and weekly New Times columnist Luther Campbell (AKA Uncle Luke) issued an ultimatum to Weezy's YMCMB crew and other "freeloading" rappers like them. "I have a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy, and all ... More >>

Jay-Z and Eminem top Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake

Jay-Z Is King of the Hip-Hop Throne

Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness 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 declares the best MCs in hip-hop.After listening to the new Jay-Z and Kanye West album, Watch the Throne, I was left ... More >>

Israeli EDM Sensation Guy Gerber Talks Working With Diddy, Lil Wayne, and Drake

​Guy Gerber is that rare breed of electronic dance music producer who's always done his own thing. And "Stoppage Time," his 2004 breakthrough hit on John Digweed's Bedrock label, was a slice of epic big-room techno that became a global club anthem and continues to sell by the truckload.Today, Gerb ... More >>

Memorial Day weekend parties in Miami, May 27 to 29

Weezy! Jeezy! Drizzy! The 305's Five Best Parties for Memorial Day Weekend 2011

Ivon David Rojas​During Memorial Day weekend in Miami, even if it doesn't rain, there will be a perfect storm of liquor, music, and dancing from South Beach to downtown, and up I-95 to King Of Diamonds -- not to mention every strip club in between. From all-day festivals at Bicentennial Park and ... More >>

Hanging With Drake and Talking to Cortez Bryant on New Year's Eve

Drizzy loves Prunk TV.​Welcome to the first Prunk TV episode of 2011! And we'll start off with footage of Drake performing at the W Hotel South Beach on New Year's Eve. Drake is at the top of his game right now. It was the perfect way to bring in the New Year. Bleidat! As a venue, the W is off t ... More >>

Nicki Minaj's Pleasure-Filled, Electric-Pink NYE Wonderland at Mansion Tonight

It's gonna be Nicki, you, and free pink drinks till you puke.​Way back in the beginning of 2010, you harbored this strange delusion of spending a pleasure-filled night with the best (lady?) rapper alive, Nicki Minaj. You imagined romping through a semi-private, electric-pink wonderland of gooey ... More >>

Best parties for New Year's Eve 2011

Five Predictions for Drake's New Year's Eve Party at WALL Lounge

Photo by Ian WitlenDrake on tour in Miami. ​It's Drizzy, baby! and he's declared Miami his new home. He opened his tour here, celebrated his 24th birthday at Arkadia and King of Diamonds, and now he's hosting a New Year's Eve Party at WALL Lounge. It's been a hell of year for everyone's favorite b ... 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 >>

Drake Says He Moved to Miami to Meet the Woman of His Dreams

Photo by Ian Witlen​When a big-budget tour starts somewhere, the talent rarely shows up early just to hang around town. Of course, you can always grant an exception for Miami, a city that every hip-hop and pop star takes every chance to visit. But it was curious when Rick Ross announced he'd be fi ... More >>

Drake at the James L. Knight: A Stack of Photos From Last Night and a Lovelorn Open Letter

Photo by Ian WitlenDrake is still the best I ever had.​Crossfade -- and every other publication in the universe -- was denied reviewer access to last night's Drake show. Our blogger, Esther, took it pretty hard. So, alongside Crossfade's exclusive pics, read her lovelorn open letter. (Then go chec ... More >>

Drake at James L. Knight Center September 20 and 21

Miami Models Bare All in Derick G's Video Interpretation of Drake's "Light Up"

Miami-based photographer and videographer Derick G has been quite busy over the last year since Crossfade last caught up with him. He's been touring the world and the U.S. with all of your favorite hip-hop artists, while at the same time getting his brand name (and his unforgettable DG signature) ... More >>

Drake to Play President Obama in Biopic?

​Okay, we get it, Drake. You're good looking. You give us those smoldering glances and tell us we're the "best you ever had," and we melt. But you may have pushed the wrong buttons, now. The singer's caused riots, controversies, lawsuits with Playboy, and now well, he's just plain old starting rum ... 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 >>

MP3: Lil Wayne's Rikers Island Verse on Drake Remix, Featuring Miami's Mike Banger on the Boards

CC by 2.0, via volliem on FlickrFree Weezy!​What, you thought a little thing like jail would slow down Lil Wayne? Weezy's now pretty much the Most Famous Nonviolent Criminal in Rikers Island, and a little time in the pen can't keep seemingly everyone's favorite rapper down. Voila, his latest relea ... More >>

Rick Ross, DJ Khaled Added to List of Performers at BET Awards 2010

photo by David "Dro" Rosario​It's officially music awards season, so in the hip-hop arena, expect plenty of news of accolades for this year's big names from Miami. After the recent VH1 Hip-Hop Honors, the next big event at which the 305 hopes to grab some laurels is the 2010 edition of the annual ... More >>

Major Lazer, La Roux Lazerproof Mixtape Available for Free Download (UPDATED WITH LINK)

​Free music is the best music in our book. And it's even better when the music is actually good. If you are smart you probably already know that the Major Lazer (Switch and Diplo) and La Roux mixtape Lazerproof was released today as a free download via Mad Decent. You also may or may not know that ... More >>

Song Spotlight: Jigg - "Over (Freestyle)"

​In what's seeming to be the instrumental of the moment, you couldn't log online or download a mixtape for a week or so without hearing yet another "Over" freestyle. "Over" being the first single from Drake's official debut album, Thank Me Later. With months of hype surrounding the ominous first ... More >>

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