Hip-Hop and Rap

Florida Rep. Trey Radel Thinks Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" Is a Conservative Anthem

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" may have been one of those politically radical songs to crack the American mainstream, but apparently Rep. Trey Radel (R-Naples) thinks that, "really, if you really get down to it, in many ways reflects the conservative message." Yes, Radel has decided to join Marc ... More >>

Ice Cube's Top Six Gangsta Bangers

These days, the rap game is kind of soft. It's all over-glorified Hokey Pokey dance steps, 808 tics, and bull-shit braggin'. Most of the time, these MCs are just mimicking the gestures of gangsters gone by. Still, there was a time when rap was real, and Ice Cube is one real motherfucker. He's been ... More >>

Trick Daddy on Lil Wayne: "If I Wanted to Start Shit, He'd Have Been in the Hospital for a Different Reason Than a Seizure"

The beef is still hot. Last month, Trick Daddy got heated over Lil Wayne disrespecting Dade County, LeBron, D-Wade, Bosh (and wife), and the #HeatGang. So he showed out, rolled up, and confronted Weezy at Miami's King of Diamonds strip club. There was apparently a scuffle, a flicked cigarette, so ... More >>

Rap's Top Ten Struggle Songs

Hip-hop is the music of the people, and the sound of grumbling bellies sets the beat. In the game of life, it's eat or be eaten, and only the hungriest survive to tell their story. Songs about struggle are a cornerstone of the genre. Brooding tales of desperation often become heralded classics. Eve ... More >>

KRS-One Bringing "Real Hip-Hop, Real Culture, Real Street" to The Stage Miami

Hip-hop is 40 and a celebration's in order. So KRS-One is touring the nation, bringing real hip-hop back to where it belongs -- the streets. "The revolution will not be televised," the MC recently told allhiphop.com. "You keep looking for real hip-hop on these bullshit stations. You're not going t ... More >>

Problem Kids's "Useful Idiot" About Jay-Z: "The Real Cuba Is Not What He Portrayed"

Problem Kids are Miami Cubans with a message for Jay-Z about his trip to Cuba. Their response to his "Open Letter" is a new track called "Useful Idiot." "He looks like he's praising the Castro regime, and we wanna give him a history lesson," say MCs Mario Obregon and Christian Martinez of the local ... 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 >>

King of Diamonds' Disco Rick: "Lil Wayne Is KOD ... Trick Never Made Him Leave"

As the don of Miami's KOD, business man and booty bass legend Disco Rick is the final word at "the world's largest & sexiest adult club." So what's he gotta say about Trick Daddy allegedly chasing Lil Wayne and his Young Money crew out of King of Diamonds? "Yo, that fake news and lies," Rick t ... 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 >>

Dirtybird Players BBQ With Claude VonStroke, De La Soul, Justin Martin at Villa 221 March 21

Snoop Lion at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Marco Rubio Takes Rap Obsession to Senate Floor, Quotes Wiz Khalifa, Jay-Z in Filibuster

Marco Rubio has never been shy about his rap fandom, telling GQ that Tupac's "Killuminati" is among his favorite songs and offering Spotify playlists packed with Kanye, Pitbull, and Flo Rida.But last night probably marked the first time Rubio took his hip-hop love to the Senate floor, where he quote ... More >>

Dirtybird Players BBQ WMC 2013 Lineup: Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, Special Guests De La Soul, and More

These days, Dirtybird Records is almost as famous for its grilled meats as its ass-clapping beats. Blame a successful ten-year run of the San Francisco crew's infamous renegade Golden Gate BBQ parties, not to mention last year's inaugural WMC installment which broke the party concept to Dirtybird's ... More >>

Senator Marco Rubio Takes Subtle Jab at Lil Wayne, Still Thinks Tupac is the Greatest (Video)

Cottonmouth king and Miami-born U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is a sucker for good hip-hop. And as such, he thinks Lil Wayne Lame is simply a vehicle of mindless entertainment with little substance. TMZ caught up with the republican senator at Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Airport this morning and ... More >>

50 Cent Rejected by Erin Andrews at Daytona 500, Tweets "I Don't See No Black People"

He may have the "Magic Stick," but 50 Cent couldn't find an opportunity to "hit once" nor "hit twice" while kicking it NASCAR-style at the Daytona 500 yesterday. Before the start of Sunday's "Great American Race," FOX reporter Erin Andrews was working the pre-race beat when she spotted the G-Unit ... More >>

Rapper Cam'ron Says "My Man Had Bosh Wifey" Too, Proves He's Classless as Lil Wayne

Whether or not Lil Wayne is actually persona non grata at the American Airlines Arena remains a mystery. What is certain, however, is that Weezy's a classless, kiss-and-tellin' fool who has fallen so far off the cultural relevancy radar that only a childish rant about a professional basketball tea ... More >>

Hey! Ho! Naughty by Nature Marks "Hip Hop Hooray" 20th Anniversary With U.S. Tour

Has anyone seen the '90s? What about the '00s? Somehow, those two decades simply came and went, taking pagers, the newspaper industry, and record stores along with 'em. On the bright side, however, Father Time spared Naughty by Nature's enduring 1993 hit, "Hip Hop Hooray," which turned 20 years ... More >>

It's Time Miami Stops Being Lil Wayne's Bitch

Uncle Luke, 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 explains why Lil Wayne is a dick.Miamians are mad as hell at rapper Lil Wayne because he said fuck the Heat, LeBron James, Dwyane ... More >>

Marco Rubio Loves Tupac and Terrible EDM

Rick Ross: Calm Down or End Up Like Biggie

Rick Ross: Calm Down Before You End Up Like Biggie

Uncle Luke, 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 writes an open letter to the Bawse. Dear Rick Ross:As someone who survived several rap beefs, I'm going to give you some adv ... More >>

50 Cent Calls Rick Ross a "Fat Boy," Says Early-Morning Shooting "Looks Staged"

Case of the Mondays? At least you're not being ridiculed by 50 Cent on social media for crashing a $300,000 Rolls Royce into a building on your birthday after a failed attempt on your life. The G-Unit capo thinks that Rick Ross' early-morning brush with death was little more than a publicity stu ... More >>

Freeway Ricky Ross vs. Rick Ross: Trial Date Set in Ongoing Trademark Infringement Fight

Long before the rapper Rick Ross allegedly started "selling dope straight off the iPhone," the drug dealer Ricky Donnell Ross, a man the Wall Street Journal called "a mastermind of the crack-cocaine trade," was pushing 100 kilos of Nicaraguan blow per day and building a $600 million criminal empire ... More >>

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 >>

Dumbest Shit in Music 2012!

Let's face it. The world of music is a really dumb place, and we should know. Here at Crossfade, we spend the majority of our time sifting through the deserted wasteland of pop culture, and it ain't lookin' too good out there. This year felt like a particularly dumb year too. Maybe it was all this ... More >>

Grammy Awards 2013 Nominees: From Frank Ocean to Black Keys and Rick Ross

Grammy-tastic! Last night, amid goofy, sexually tense intergenerational banter between co-hosts LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States announced the nominees for its 54th Grammy Awards, airing Sunday, February 10, on CBS. Genre-bending ... More >>

Rick Ross and MMG Tour With Meek Mill and Wale at Fillmore Miami Beach, December 5

Rick Ross With Meek Mill and Wale Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A Wednesday night devoted to making nonstop prank calls in which you pretend to be DJ Khaled. See also: -Becoming the Bawse: Eight-Part History of Rick Ross -Rick Ross Officially Recognized as "Bawse o ... More >>

Beatdown 2012 at BB&T Center November 30

Rick Ross's MMG Tour at the Fillmore December 5

A$AP Rocky and A$AP Mob at Fillmore Miami Beach November 8

Rick Ross Sued for $226,000 by Concert Promoter Over 15-Minute Show in Charlotte

Rick Ross loves chicken. In fact, homie can eat a whole bird, a couple side dishes and three pieces of pie in a single sitting, and he also owns a couple of Wingstop eateries 'round the country. So naturally, if you invite him to perform at Bojangles, there best be some mo'fucking "Famous Chicke ... More >>

Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Wale, and Machine Gun Kelly Tearing Up the Fillmore Miami Beach

The biggest Bawse in the rap game is taking over the Fillmore Miami Beach. And he's bringing his best buddies with him. Miami's phattest hustler, Ricky Rozay, is gonna tear the roof off that bitch and make all the hos scream when his Maybach Music Tour rolls through South Beach on Wednesday, Decemb ... More >>

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 >>

Lil Wayne's Doctor Says 'No Flying!' After Seizure: Will Weezy Ever Rap Again?

It was the second seizure heard 'round the rap world. A year after Rick Ross suffered a pair of mid-flight epileptic episodes, Lil Wayne's private jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas following the Young Money Cash Money capo's own medical nightmare at 30,000 feet. As a result of ... More >>

Lil Wayne Hospitalized After Mid-Flight Seizure Causes Emergency Landing in Texas

Lil Wayne suffered a mid-flight seizure on Thursday afternoon, causing his private jet to make an emergency landing in Texas. The 30-year-old rapper was immediately transported to a local hospital where, according to TMZ, he was treated for several hours and ultimately released at 6 p.m. central ti ... More >>

Russell Simmons on President Obama, Politics, and Hip-Hop

Seven Signs Dr. Dre Might Be Going Crazy

Yo, what is going on with Dr. Dre? We're worried about him. He's exhibiting some strange behavior; even his closest friends seem to think he might be losing it. He's almost never seen or heard from, just holed up inside his California studio, in his epic castle-mansion, making beats and headphones ... More >>

Russell Simmons on Obama, Hip-Hop, and Why "This Guy Romney Is Against the People"

Whether serving as the multimillionaire cofounder of Def Jam Records, shouting down injustice at Occupy Wall Street, or stumping for the President of the Unites States of America, Russell Simmons -- the rap legend, media mogul, and dedicated vegan -- never stops reppin' the people. That's why we he ... More >>

Uzi, Nigerian-American Rapper: "We Don't Live in Huts and Walk Around Naked"

The savage lands of Dade and Broward counties can be a wild place at times. The Chevy's roar like lions, and bass pounds from their trunks like a foot drop from an elephant. Nigerian-American rapper Uzi was born and raised in South Florida. And all his life, he's had to answer questions about his f ... 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 >>

Top Five Phattest Rappers of All Time

Hip-hop is a giant pissing contest set to music. But while diamond-plated rims and gold watches will always be rap music standard bearers, you rarely hear declarations of being tremendous in the most literal sense possible. Yes, many rappers are fat. However, only a certain subset of the hip-hop c ... More >>

Ten Gay Rappers Breaking Down Barriers and Bringing Dat Heat

Hip-hop has rarely been heralded for its acceptance of the gay community, but all things must change with time. Lots of rappers and hip-hoppers are speculated to be gay. Lil B seemed like he was coming out when he dropped a mixtape entitled I'm Gay (I'm Happy), but denied it. Meanwhile, Frank Ocean ... More >>

Kraftwerk, N.W.A, Donna Summer, 12 Others Nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Even though 2006 inductees Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols might think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is "a piss stain" that charges too much for dinner and a gala, there are plenty of "music industry people" (i.e. not gaping A-holes) who'd be happy to grab a decent dinner while basking in the glo ... 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 >>

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 >>

Kendrick Lamar at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 27

Killing Him Softly

Kendrick Lamar's Recipe: Black Hippy, Lady Gaga, "Pussy and Patron"

If Planet Earth had testicles, they'd belong to Kendrick Lamar. Because, proverbially, homie's got the world by the balls. With five critically acclaimed mixtapes and an independent release already under his belt, it's easy to forget that the Compton MC's first major-label LP hasn't even dropped y ... More >>

Wyclef Jean: "Lauryn Hill Led Me to Believe the Baby Was Mine"

Wyclef Jean is baring his soul in the upcoming autobiography, Purpose: An Immigrant's Story. And he's including all the dirty details. For more than a decade, fans of epic rap group The Fugees have been fascinated with the details of the band's demise, the sexual relationship between Lauryn Hill an ... More >>

Nicki Minaj vs. Mariah Carey and the Female Weezy's Five Best Bitch Feuds

American Idol has only just begun filming its 11th season. But in the grand tradition of Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell, two of the recent additions to the judges' table are already at each other's throats. Pop stars turned Idol officials, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, really fucking hate each other. ... More >>