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DJ Paris Hilton Signs to Cash Money: Five Reasons Her "House Album" Will Suck Balls

Paris Hilton must really love abuse, because she just signed a record deal with Cash Money to release her follow-up to 2006's weird and critically-forgotten Paris. She plans to release a "house album." And, like, nothing about a fluffy hip-hop label signing a talentless heiress to make EDM music s ... More >>

Best of the Best 2013 Festival Guide, From Beenie Man to Beres Hammond

Come summer, reggae festivals are as commonplace in the States as Bob Marley tees are at reggae festivals. Held every Memorial Day weekend in downtown Miami since 2007, Best of the Best is one of the only annual fests in the U.S. that puts the emphasis squarely on dancehall, and it's certainly the ... More >>

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 >>

Lil Wayne and LeBron James Crash 2 Chainz's B.O.A.T.S. Tour in Miami, November 26

2 Chainz's B.O.A.T.S. Tour With Trigg Da Kidd and Cap 1 Fillmore Miami Beach Monday, November 26, 2012 Better Than: No Chainz. Or even 1 Chainz. The doubters said 2 Chainz was a hardcore dummy with weak lyrical skills. But with the full fucking endorsement of Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, R ... 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 >>

Stripper Tip Drill Is Now a Rapper, Unveils Shit Happens Mixtape Cover on Twitter

It was not long ago that we here at Crossfade knew Tip Drill simply as Miami's most recognizable stripper. But then a fall during one of her signature, death-defying slides down King of Diamonds' massive pole left her with a broken jaw, bringing a premature end to her days as the top money earner ... More >>

Photos: Birdman Buys Scott Storch's Old Miami Mansion for $14.5 Million

The 20,000-square-foot Palm Island mansion that once belonged to fallen prince of hip hop Scott Storch is now rightfully back in the hands of rap royalty. Birdman, the guy everyone from Nicki Minaj to Drake calls "boss," just scooped up the massive home for $14.5 million. 

2 Chainz Bringing "Dem Strippers" to All-Ages Show at Fillmore Miami Beach on November 26

Even in Florida, you gotta be an adult to get a lapdance. (Well, unless you're that teenage kid who was banging a 26-year-old Baby Dolls stripper for two weeks.) So ... What exactly will be goin' down when 2 Chainz brings "Dem Strippers" to an all-ages show at the Fillmore Miami Beach on November ... More >>

Kanye Quits Twitter! Blame Kim Kardashian and These Five Other Possible Censors

Guys ... Kanye is acting really weird. In a totally uncharacteristic move, the mouthiest, most self-righteous rapper breathing deleted all his genius tweets, with basically no warning or explanation. How could he do such a thing? Like, we're gonna let you finish ... But Kanye West is the best twe ... More >>

Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson Aren't Fat: An Open Letter to America

What the hell is wrong with you, America? Look at you, sitting there covered in Cheeto dust, hearts pumping pure Coca-Cola, and you're making fun of this nation's beautiful pop tarts because they happen to put on 25 pounds? We here at Crossfade are tired of these finger-pointing, gut-busting shena ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Nicki Minaj Goes Republican, "Voting For Romney," Calls 99 Percent "Lazy Bitches"

Hold up ... Nicki Minaj is a Republican now? Everyone's up in arms because of a new verse that the eccentric rhymestress slurred on Lil Wayne's new mixtape, Dedication 4. She seems to throw her weight behind the Welsh-cake candidate, name-dropping Mitt Romney and her big tax bracket. Then she goes ... More >>

Connie Mack is Like Best Friends With Lynyrd Skynyrd

Marco Rubio loves Nicki Minaj. We're just going to guess that World's Greatest Elevator Music Vol. 1 is Bill Nelson's favorite album of all time. But what does Republican Senate candidate Connie Mack IV listen to? Confederate flag-embracing rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, of course.

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 >>

Justin Bieber's Mile-High F$%@ Club: Five Hypothetical Pop Star Swearing Sprees

If a bar of soap were Justin Bieber's mouth's boyfriend, our skies would be a safer place. The Biebz was on a flight back from New Zealand when he and his fellow Biebonauts started spewing all sorts of nasty language. Even in doses of three ounces or less, the Bieb-Bop-a-Lula's hot liquid filth wa ... More >>

Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Tour in Miami: A 15-Photo Recap

See also Crossfade's show report, "Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne Pussy Poppin' at Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Show in Miami." Some call her Nicki. And some call her Roman. But she calls everybody bitch. Last night, Nicki Minaj brought the Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded tour to Miami's James L. Knight Cen ... More >>

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

Iggy Azalea Pops That "Pu$$y" at LIV Miami

Nicki Minaj is cool and everything. But when it comes to raw rapper women, there's an even newer bad bitch in town. The sexy and slick-witted Australian import Iggy Azalea has been going viral with "Pu$$y", her hit single and music video. Recently signed to Interscope, T. I. is even producing Ms. ... More >>

Nicki Minaj and Four Other Famous Twitter Quitters

Nicki Minaj's fans are pissed. The rap star deactivated her Twitter account (@NickiMinaj) on Sunday after accusing a fan site of leaking music from her album. Although she blocked the site, Nicki decided to say her goodbyes. "Like seriously, its but so much a person can take. Good fucking bye," sh ... 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 >>

Nicki Minaj Disses Chris Bosh Hard in New Song

​I guess Queens-native Nicki Minaj is a New York Knicks fan, because rap's fiercest rapstress take aim at Chris Bosh in the latest track leaked from her new album Roman Reloaded.Poor Chris Bosh. Dude can't catch a break.

Tip Drill and Skrawberry, Miami's Busiest Strippers, Release a Rap Single

​Miami-area superstrippers Tip Drill and Skrawberry are on a guerrilla campaign to educate the world about their naked debauchery. First, they stole the show at a South Beach filming of MSNBC's Morning Joe. Then they broke down the Republican primary field for Riptide, and we can no longer thin ... More >>

Fashion Freakouts 2011: Top Ten Pop Star Style Mishaps of the Last Year

Ke$ha totally freaked out in 2011.​The past 365 days have been packed with some seriously questionable pop star looks. Sure, most of them have been perpetrated by Lady Gaga and whatever little monster dresses her. But Ms. Germanotta isn't the only one who's played the fashion game and lost mis ... 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 >>

Ten Nastiest Feuds in the History of Pop Music

Mick and Keith might look chummy. But they ain't.​Yesterday, Crossfade reported on Steve Albini's recent beef with Odd Future. Here's the gist: After getting stuck on an airport shuttle with the rambunctious hip-hop collective, the notoriously cranky producer and musician wrote a post on his r ... More >>

Marco Rubio and the Grand Old Party Are a "Hot, Sloppy Mess"

A hot, sloppy mess. And Nicki Minaj.​The Riptide national politics desk has been working around the clock to bring you this shocking revelation: Some Democrats suspect the Republican Party is crazy."I think Mitch McConnell, frankly, has lost his mind," said Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Miss ... More >>

Britney Spears' Tickets Half Off? Four Things That Would Make It Worth Full Price

via Xwomanizerx​Recently, Perez Hilton reported that tickets for Britney Spears' Femme Fatale tour are selling for half off. Apparently, the original prices were extremely expensive, in the range of $96 to $346.50, before fees. But her boyfriend Jason Trawick is selling tickets on his site at a ... More >>

Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" Tries and Fails With Robots and Creepy Sexual Innuendo

​Britney Spears, our favorite almost-30-year-old, meltdown-prone mom is trying to keep her music videos sexy. It isn't working and here are some lowlights from her new vid for "I Wanna Go."  Robots. People keep turning into androids. The video ends with a guy giving her a handful of seashells ... 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 >>

Marco Rubio Loves Nicki Minaj

​Marco Rubio wishes he could have this moment for life. He's a young, superstar senator the likes of wish D.C. hasn't quite seen, diverging politics aside, since President Obama. ABC's Nightline scored what they call "the first national television interview" with Rubio since taking office, and got ... More >>

Lunch Break: The 10 Most Wonderfully Odd YouTube Videos of 2010

​It's noon on this, the second work lunch hour of the year 2011, and we here at Riptide hope to make all your lunch breaks this year special. Which is why we're introducing a new daily noon feature where we basically get to have some fun and post whatever the hell catches our twisted attention. Be ... More >>

The Pros and Cons of Drake's W South Beach NYE Party

​We've forgiven Drake for just about every hip-hop faux-pas that he's committed ... We forgave him for starting off as an actor in the teen drama, Degrassi: The Next Generation. We forgave him for growing up in Toronto's wealthy Forest Hill neighborhood. And we continue to forgive him for puckeri ... More >>

Lloyd Is a World-Class Lover Man and He Wants to Spend NYE 2011 With You

Lloyd is a human version of the Magic Fingers vibrating mattress.​Why do you wanna spend New Year's Eve with Lloyd (AKA Young Goldie)? Because he's a world-class lover man sure to make any girl's Serta shake like a Magic Fingers vibrating mattress. (Plus, you gotta do something while you wait for ... More >>

Welcome Back, Lil Wayne! Homecoming Party This Sunday at King of Diamonds

​It's not like you needed an announcement. But still ... Weezy F. Baby is free! After his eight-month stint on the big island, Mr. Dwayne Carter is now on another island -- a better, much prettier island called Miami Beach, where he claims residence and rules over the entire Cash Money Young Mo ... More >>

Drake's Big Booty Birthday Bonanza at King of Diamonds Tonight

​In order to officially achieve the rank of grown motherfucker, one must scratch three very specific things off the eternal To-Do list: (1) Make out with Nicki Minaj; (2) Earn an awesome nickname ending in -zy (i.e., Jeezy, Weezy, Kanyeezy); and (3) Celebrate a landmark b-day in the company of cel ... 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 >>

MP3: Rick Ross Remixes Nicki Minaj's "Your Love"

photo by David "Dro" Rosario​How do you get rap gold at this very moment? Easy equation. Add Rick Ross, flying high onnew albumTeflon Don's critical claim and store-register success, to anything involving Nicki Minaj. Voila, the Boss' take on Nicki's track "Your Love," which leaked to the Internet ... More >>

BET Awards 2010: Nicki Minaj Thanked "All the Female Rappers;" Is That Enough For Lil Kim?

photo by Ian WitlenNicki Minaj onstage at the Best of the Best concert in Miami this past May.​In the Nicki Minaj vs. Lil Kim war, the Queen Bee hasn't exactly been acting regal. As the younger femcee's star has risen, Kim seems to be taking more and more potshots at Nicki. First, there was t ... More >>

305 Live: DJ Irie, Luther Campbell, Rick Ross and More in Local Hip-Hop News

Photo courtesy of DjIrie.com​Well, it happens every year and this year is no different. The official DJ of the Miami Heat, DJ Irie, kicks off his annual Irie Weekend festivities at LIV tonight. The event is slated to start at 11 p.m. and will feature DJ Irie himself and fellow Artist Related ... More >>

Mixtape Of The Week: Poe Boy, I.M.G., and Strong Arm DJs - Welcome 2 Miami

​Some of us are still recovering from Memorial Day Weekend, and we're still sifting through the annual deluge of mixtapes that the weekend brings. Poe Boy, I.M.G. and Strong Arm DJs (Entice, Kronik, and Mister Hustla) used the weekend to flaunt their diverse roster of artists in a 15-track mixtap ... More >>

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 >>

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from Adela, Pitbull, DJ Khaled and more

Photo by David "Dro" Rosario​-- DJ Khaled continues to ride the wave of success that his song "All I Do Is Win" has garnered. Since releasing the song, he's received tons of iTunes downloads for it. So I guess as a thank you of sorts, Khaled recruits pretty much all of the most relevant rappers of ... More >>

Rihanna Brings the Last Girl on Earth Tour to American Airlines Arena July 31

Rihanna will probably wearing more clothing when she performs in Miami.​Normally we'd be the first ones to turn our noses up at pop music, but there is just something about Rihanna that is so likable. Maybe it's her seemingly down-to-earth attitude, or that she went through the whole Chris Brown s ... More >>

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from Trina, Basic Vocab, and Rahsaan

Slip-N-Slide Records​-- Trina is gearing up for her new album Amazin' to hit stores on May 4th. With appearances by Keri Hilson, Diddy, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Lady GaGa, Monica, and others - Trina is set to continue her reign as one of the most successful female rappers in hip-hop. With Amazin', ... More >>

Dwyane Wade Accused of Dirty Play by Bulls' Taj Gibson

via GQ​Chicago Bulls fans' biggest wet dream involved hometown boy Dwyane Wade suiting up in their version of black-and-red next year. We think it's unlikely to happen, but on the off chance it does, Wade might already have some bad blood with a teammate.Bulls rookie Taj Gibson complained to ... More >>

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

New Trina: "That's My Attitude"

  pic courtesy bossip.com ​                   Besides Young Money's still-really-underground Nicki Minaj, the term "mainstream female rapper" is one usually heard before "ain't doin' shit."  ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Trina - "That's My Attitude"

​Besides Young Money's still-really-underground Nicki Minaj, the term "mainstream female rapper" is one usually heard before "ain't doin' shit." Kim tried to come back with a song that was so 2002 that I nearly called my mom to ask her money for books and a plane ticket home fr ... More >>