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Five Real Trap (Rap) Songs

The word "trap" has two meanings in the music world. Birthed in the early 2000s, it was bass-y, kick drum-ridden, synth hi-hat Southern hip-hop, all about the venue (a trap) for drug deals and the lifestyle of a bagman. Now, though, trap rap is often befuddled with the mechanical, schizy EDM spawn ... More >>

The-Dream's Banned "Pussy" Porn Vid:
An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

R.I.P., feminism, for we bury it on this day. The-Dream released a pornographic music video less than 24 hours ago. And almost immediately, it was pulled from YouTube for breaking the nudity rules. Thankfully, there's Vimeo for all our prurient needs. The clip for single "Pussy," featuring Big Sea ... More >>

Baauer (and "Harlem Shake") Coming to Grand Central Miami on May 18

"Drink lots of water." That's just a lil' piece of practical Twitter advice from EDM meme megastar Baauer for any of y'all beat freaks planning to spend a whole night raving, raging, and "Harlem Shake"-ing. Especially when he arrives to "ey, ey, ey, ey, shake, ta, ta" at Grand Central on May 18. ... More >>

Rell the Soundbender "Ain't Coming Down," Gettin' High at EVE Miami on February 8

Who is Rell the Soundbender? Ask the man himself and the answer's gonna be something like "I'm an NBA junkie, nerd, and part-time superhero." But homie's also a DJ-producer with Panamanian roots who was born in Virginia and ran the streets in the FLA. Since 2004, he's been doin' work as a studio ... More >>

Top Ten Songs About Sex in Public

Sex rules! And you know what's even better? Sex outside! That's 'cause the threat of being shamefully discovered tickles the universal voyeuristic/exhibitionist funny bone. All people (spanning every continent) either want to watch people have sex. Or have other people watch them have sex. And t ... More >>

Trap Takes Over! Flosstradamus and DJ Sliink Run Shit at Grand Central Miami

Sorry, Admiral Ackbar. It's too late for your warnings. The kids cannot escape. America's youth is addicted to the drug-dealing music. And they ain't fina stop twerkin' till they dead. Or in jail. OK, it's not that serious. But Friday's performance by Flosstradamus at Grand Central proved that tra ... More >>

Rick Ross and Jeezy Brawl at BET Awards, Smash Mirror, Get Seven Years Bad Luck

We've said it before and, goddamn it, and we'll say it again: Today's rappers are softer than baby thighs. Biggie and Pac were actual gangbangers. Ol' Dirty Bastard freebased so much crack cocaine that he changed his name from Big Baby Jesus to Dirt McGirt to Osirus and back again. And every month, ... More >>

Gucci Mane Raps for Empty Porn Expo on South Beach: A 10-Photo Recap

Gucci Mane is one of the greatest rappers of the past ten years. But his performance at the Sex on the Beach convention, witnessed by no more than 60 people, looked like a scene out of Spinal Tap, except instead of an outdated rock band in a bowling alley, the trap king played an empty porn expo on ... More >>

Waka Flocka Flame: Party Till You Piss Yourself at Revolution Live on November 14

What exactly does Waka Flocka Flame mean when he claims to go "Hard in Da Paint?" Let's start with what we know ... The ATL rapper and Gucci Mane protégé advocates a lifestyle built upon clear, consistent thematics: trappin', cookin', slangin.' And of course, keepin' the chickens in line. But no ... 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 >>

Lil Wayne, Birdman, and YMCMB's Memorial Day Party at Cameo Miami: A 37-Photo Recap

Cameo is to Washington Avenue what sand is to the beach. And Saturday night's YMCMB party proved it. StrongArm DJ Entice celebrated a birthday, Flo Rida got hype, and the Young Money crew bought so many bottles that the club ran out of sparklers. Even Gucci Mane came through stunting. We never d ... More >>

11 Dancing GIFs From South Beach's Memorial Weekend 2012

See also "Top Ten Dance Moves at Ultra Music Festival 2012 in Animated GIF!" Memorial Day weekend 2012 on South Beach was a big-ass block party. Lots of em' really. Ocean Drive was all action. Collins and Washington had more Chevy's riding high than a Trick Daddy video. Every rapper from Two Chai ... More >>

Memorial Day 2012: Fifteen Best Rap Parties in Miami and South Beach

See also "Memorial Day 2012: Six Best Electronic Music Parties Around Miami." The Beach is about to get flooded, son. At this very moment, there are 250,000 rappers, DJs, celebs, porn stars, strippers, and regular people packing the Hummer full of champagne, cash money, and 12 changes of clothes. ... More >>

Top 15 Memorial Day Weekend Parties in Miami

Make It Rain: A Three-Step Guide for Strip Club Newbies

The act of throwing money at nude or semi-nude dancers has been around for eons. Or at the very least, as long as gentleman clubs have existed. But there's more to the art of ballin' than just tossing paper currency in the air and watching it fall onto some stripper's ass crack. There are a nu ... More >>

Kid Sister With Riff Raff at Grand Central in Miami, February 4

​Kid Sister With Riff Raff Grand Central, Miami Saturday, February 4, 2012 Better Than: Babysitting a real infant. The spunky, enigmatic, and clearly grown-up Kid Sister is still trying to break out of the underground. The real little sis of Flosstradamus's Joey Young, she got her start workin ... More >>

B2K's Lil' Fizz Arrested For Pot Shop and the Five Wildest Rapper Weed Busts of All Time

Lil Fizz is wildly weedy. ​Aside from your standard Gucci Mane flareup, the world of hip-hop arrests has been pretty boring lately. Who cares about Ja Rule's back taxes? Thankfully, early 2000s R&B boy band vocalist Lil' Fizz (AKA Dreux Pierre Frederic) is bringing some flair back to notable ... More >>

Chris Brown Hosts Big Booty Stripper Smackdown in Miami Tomorrow Night

Breezy just loves him some big-booty strippers.​Aside from being crazy stupid musical geniuses, R&B pop star Chris Brown and nimrod rapper Gucci Mane have a lot in common. For example, they've really got a way with the ladies. By which, of course, we mean that both C. Breezy and Radric Davis ... More >>

Gucci Mane or Gucci Insane? Five So Icy Moments of Mental Irregularity

Gucci's rap sheet has only gotten longer since 2009.​Looks like Atlanta nimrod-savant trap-rapper Gucci Mane is heading back to jail. After a long history of incarceration, Gucci will be heading back to the clink for pushing a woman out of a moving vehicle If you haven't figured it out yet: Gucc ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Tracks About Gettin' Drunk

Straight wasted with Gucci Mane.​Pop music will never run out of ways to rework classic stuff like love, life, lust, etc. But let's not forget the always-popular, never-grows-old topic of getting wasted! In fact, hip-hop philosopher extraordinaire Gucci Mane even had a song appropriately entitle ... More >>

Miami's best Labor Day 2011 parties: Young Money, Uncle Luke, Gucci Mane, and the King of Diamonds

Fresh From Jail, Gucci Mane Hits King of Diamonds to Watch Strippers Fistfight

Courtesy of Dekelb County Sheriff​Gucci Mane's got a way with the ladies. On January 28, the rapper wanted a lil' breakfast. But before hitting the IHOP, he decided to cruise around in his Hummer and pick up a 36-year-old Atlanta resident at the South DeKalb Mall. He offered to take the woman f ... 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 >>

In Palm Bay, Black Teen Attacks White Man for Listening to Rap

​Joshuah Lamb, a black 14-year-old, sits in a juvenile detention center after beating up a 22-year-old white man for listening to music by rapper Gucci Mane. The attack was triggered because Lamb didn't think white people should listen to rap music. Now the local State Attorney's Office is de ... More >>

Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane Video For "Steady Mobbin": Miami Real Estate Porn, Interesting Use for a Grammy

​Voila, the magic of editing! Just as Weezy was going away to prison, Gucci Mane was preparing to be set free. Yet somehow the rappers with overlapping sentences have managed to (finally) release a new video for their collabo track "Steady Mobbin." Yes, the song's already dominated the summer airw ... More >>

Video and MP3: CeCe Segarra Featuring Gucci Mane - "Go Your Own Way"

Local songstress CeCe Segarra has been positioned as the next dance-pop star from Miami, and while she's largely just made club appearances up to now, she may finally have her breakout track. In a major coup for a relatively unknown new artist, she's scored a feature from newly freed Gucci Mane on h ... More >>

Lose the Pen, Grab the Mike

Video: Nicki Minaj, Gucci Mane, and More Best of the Best 2010 Performances on YouTube

According to our tireless reviewer Esther Park, this year's Best of the Best concert was even more intense than the last. With so many big-name artists scheduled to perform every year, there are always unexpected changes, pleasant surprises, and, it seems, a crazy sprint through the final leg of the ... More >>

Concert Review: Best of the Best 2010 at Bicentennial Park, May 30

photo by Ian WitlenKhaled, Ross, and Diddy all took to the stage together for a group appearance.​Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the concert.Best of the Best Concert With Gyptian, Barrington Levy, Capleton, Nicki Minaj, Gucci Mane, Diddy, and othersBicentennial Park, Miami ... More >>

Around Town: Laura Bush, Afrika Bambaataa, Fetish Parties, Rick Ross, Diddy, and Busta Rhymes

Masuimi Max, Belle of the Fetish Ball​We're guessing most of you already know about the shower of hip-hop events hitting Miami this long weekend, but allow us to point out some other events worthy of your time and cash. There's a saucy Fetish party happening all weekend in Broward. If you're willi ... More >>

Best of the Best Concert General Schedule By Genre

Expect soca star Machel Montano some time between 3 and 7 p.m.​There's a lot to cover at Best of the Best, with so many headlining artist advertised, and with so many headliners also bringing the vague promise of unnamed "friends." What's more, neither fans nor artist sin the hip-hop and Caribbean ... More >>

A guide to must-see artists at the Best of the Best concert

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 >>

Mixtape Of the Week: DJ Richie Epps - Best Of The Best 2010 Official Mixtape

​The state of this year's Best Of The Best Concert remains somewhat tentative still, due to Jamaica's ongoing declared state of emergency. Still, concert organizers have said the show is still set to go as planned, and it's undeniable that the bill features a veritable who's-who of Caribbean and u ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Gucci Mane

Welcome back, Gucci Mane. The Alabama-born, Atlanta-based trap rapper's songs are full of street swagger and sordid tales, and his latest series of personal misfortunes back it all up as reality. While he finally scored a major deal with Warner Bros. last year, his celebration period would be short- ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Mr. Vegas

One of the biggest stars of current urban Jamaican music, Mr. Vegas was among young artists leading the charge in the '90s to take dancehall in a more American-influenced direction. His smash hits fused sparse riddims with plenty of hip-hop swagger and R&B melodic flavor, and his recent synth-he ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Cocoa Tea

Born Calvin George Scott, Cocoa Tea hails from Kingston and carries on the island's reggae tradition. The early/mid-'80s saw him flirting with early dancehall stylings on chilled-out songs like "I Lost My Sonia" and "Too Young." But when dancehall veered into more aggressive, hip-hop-influenced terr ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Capleton

The mere mention of Capleton anywhere fans the Internet flames, as the reggae legend has been accused, on and off, of homophobia - or, rather, for refusing to co-sign on, or about-facing from, various anti-homophobia efforts in dancehall. His defenders, however, claim that he's moved past all that a ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Serani

The 27-year-old Serani's 2008 single, "No Games," with its sped-up, hiccuping beat and indelible chorus, was everywhere that year. A debut album of the same name followed in 2009, but since then, he's been working to prove he's no one-hit wonder. Newer songs like "When It's Cold," "Naked," and "Roma ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Lady Saw

Since the mid-'80s, Lady Saw has represented for the females in the highly male-driven world of dancehall. And throughout her career, she's racked up a lot of firsts. She was the first female dancehall artist to headline major genre events outside of Jamaica, the first to win a Grammy, and the first ... More >>

Check Out Miami New Times' Memorial Day Weekend 2010 Event Listings

CC by 2.0, via xxmisa on FlickrBarbie princess Nicki Minaj is all over Miami during Memorial Day Weekend.​Thousands of people will flock to South Beach on Memorial Day Weekend, and there are a head-spinning number of beach parties, pool parties, club parties, concerts, and a seeming million other ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Machel Montano

This thirtysomething singer holds it down for Trinidad on this bill, one of the few artists here to represent soca. Still, if anyone has a shot at bringing the Caribbean style over into the mainstream, it's Machel Montano. While he's been recording and releasing albums since his teen years, in recen ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Barrington Levy

Barrington Levy has had two musical lives, it seems, in the past few decades. There was his first one, as a wildly popular singer of reggae and a splash of early dancehall, a career which began in the '70s and netted him hits like "Collie Weed" and "Under Mi Sensi." His second musical life, though, ... More >>

MP3: Black Bobby Goes in on Wacka Flocka Flame on New Track

​For fans of actual hip-hop, Wacka Flocka Flame had a few things against him from the outset. First, there is, of course, the unfortunate name that recalls Fozzie Bear more than anything. Oh well, that's what you get when you decide to take your professional moniker from Gucci Mane's mumbled gibbe ... More >>

Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Capleton, Barrington Levy, and Others Added to Best of the Best Lineup

CC by 2.0, via xxmisa on Flickr​Over the past 15 years or so, Jamaican dancehall has been fusing more and more with American urban music. It's really been reflected in the last few in the lineup of Best of the Best, the biggest dancehall-centric concert of the year in South Florida. Hip-hop artist ... More >>

New Mad Decent Podcast Features Rusko, Playing Ultra on March 27

​Out of all the big-name dubstep producers, Rusko is probably the one with the most obvious sense of humor. His tracks are bass-heavy, sure, but they're also full of quirky, high-end samples, and generally harbor less of that sense of impending doom that permeates the work of people like Skream. A ... More >>

South Florida Voters and Winners in the Village Voice's New Pazz Jop Poll

​It's January, which means it's time for another edition of the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll of music critics. Yes, it's probably the latest, high-profile wrap-up of the best music of 2009, but it's also the biggest in sheer number of voices -- some 697 voters submitted ballots this ye ... More >>

The South ruled rap in 2009

Pretty Ricky Moves to Big Cat Records For Upcoming New Album

via myspace.com/prettyricky​The end of the millennium has been pretty rough on the Carver Ranches-birthed R&B group Pretty Ricky. First, last year original Pleasure P quit the group to pursue a solo career. His single "Boyfriend #2" peaked at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 -- a higher posi ... More >>