Scott Storch

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 >>

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. 

Scott Starch Wanted in Florida for More Than $28,000 in Unpaid Child Support

Scott Storch has been making hot beats for over a decade. His skills once made him a wanted man by hip-hop and R&B acts. But now his dead-beat ways have got him wanted by the cops. And that's not exactly the kind of hot drop you want as a big-time producer. Turns out, bro won't pay child suppo ... More >>

Scott Storch Sued for Being Too Faded to Work, Allegedly Blows Paycheck on Fat Lines of Cocaine

Sorry to beat an aggressively dead horse, but drugs are bad. If you're dumb enough - and you probably are because you're doing drugs in the first place - they will kill you. And if they don't kill you, they'll make you uglier, dumber, and dead broke. Sure Drugs make you horny, but they also making ... More >>

Scott Storch's Top Ten Cocaine Bangers and Blow Ballads

​Yesterday, Crossfade reported on prolific pop/rap producer Scott Storch's recent arrest for cocaine possession in a Las Vegas hotel. The story was simple: Homeboy didn't want to pay his bill (probably because he spent all of his money on coke) and when the cops rolled up they found a few grams le ... More >>

Scott Storch Arrested for Cocaine ... Again

​Back in 2010, Miami New Times ran a no-holds-barred expose on the life and lavish times of prolific hip-hop producer (and South Florida native) Scott Storch. As subtly alluded to via our front page illustration (see right), the Storch story involves a shit-ton of drugs. Not just any drugs, mind ... More >>

Jose Reyes to the Marlins: The Conflicting Emotions of A Miami-Residing Mets Fan

​I was in the stands at Shea Stadium in 2006 when Endy Chavez, God bless his tiny heart, made this heroic catch in the NLCS' Game 7 to seemingly seal the Mets' glorious destiny. That was the last time I've ever experienced joy. Three innings later, Carlos Beltran was frozen by an Adam Wainwright ... More >>

New Times Earns Three First-Place AltWeekly Awards

​Miami New Times and the Village Voice topped America's alternative newspapers in last week's awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in New Orleans. Staff writer Gus Garcia-Roberts was given the nod for best feature for a story about fallen music entrepreneur Scott Storch ... More >>

Top Five Obscene Florida License Plates, Visualized For Your Pleasure

​Thanks to the cackling eight-year-old child making poop jokes inside the minds of all Floridians, Riptide hit the mother lode last week. We made a Freedom of Information Act request for a list of all the objectionable personalized license plates reviewed by state officials in the last few years, ... More >>

Top Ten New Times Covers of the Year

​The peek out at you from practically every street corner in the city. They're sometimes the most talked about thing in town. They're our covers. In a feature on our art director Pam Shavalier earlier this year, the Society of Publications Designers said that our "creative, highly-original se ... More >>

Scott Storch is Not Canadian

Not Canadian.​It's been eight months since we dived headlong into hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch's life and came up with this feature, but one thing continues to haunt us: The persistent misinformation that Storch was born in Canada. Even the Associated Press insists that it is so. It is ... More >>

Scott Storch's Old Palm Island Mansion on Market Again for $20 Million

​This 20,000-square-foot, Tony Montana-esque mansion at 70 Palm Island is Miami embodied. It's been bought for a lavish price during boom times, foreclosed on during lean times, seen monstrous amounts of cocaine snorted within its walls, swapped between new money, and now, with the real estate ... More >>

Photos: Big Boi at SoBe Live, August 18

Photo by Ian WitlenBig Boi and producer Scott Storch at SoBe Live.​Oh, hey! Look who we spotted at last night's HP and MySpace event at SoBe Live featuring Big Boi: New Times' BFF Scott Storch. Wonder if he knew we were so close. Well, the ATLien performed a good mix of both his solo material and ... More >>

Scott Storch Wanted for Stealing a Fan in Suburban Illinois

We knew he was desperate for fans...​Sort of. According to the Tri-Cities Blotter, a group of grifters recently tried to use our favorite erstwhile Palm Island lothario's name to steal a $330 Dyson fan.

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 >>

Scott Storch / Dr. Dre Comeback Single Delayed by Eminem; Check Out Its Alleged YouTube Leak

Illustration by Jason SellerAfter this cover illustration, we can't blame him for being pissed at New Times. ​Miami New Times' recent cover story on Scott Storch may not have been the most flattering of portrayals, but it did reveal at few nuggets for those interested in the former superproducer's ... More >>

Letters from the issue of April 29, 2010

Scott Storch's Strung-Out Moscow Gig and More YouTube Fun

​While writing "Blow Hard," this week's feature about douche-tastic hip-hop megaproducer Scott Storch -- which reveals that (a) his mother claims he financially abandoned her, (b) he apparently ordered a handler driving a German-made coupe to run down a child-support court server, and (c) he ... More >>

Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions and then snorted his way to ruin

The Top Ten Scott Storch Productions

This week, New Times slogged knee-deep into the messy world of Scott Storch-- the coke, the family he ditched, the fortune he blew in spectacular fashion, it's all in there in unprecedented detail. But before he was a prime candidate for the best VH1: Behind the Music ever, Storch was a massive ... More >>

Scott Storch's Arrest Warrant: You Might be a Bad Dad If...

​In reporting "Blow Hard", this weeks feature on former megaproducer and recovering coke addict Scott Storch, we collected reams of fascinating documents detailing his fall. That will happen when you have 28 creditors file lawsuits against you in the span of four years. But these two documents sum ... More >>

Scott Storch's Manager Buys his Music Catalog for $7 Million

Illustration by Jason SeilerGod, we love this painting.​This is either a bail-out from a buddy or a very shrewd buy-low purchase. Just as "Blow Hard", New Times' feature on bankrupt megaproducer Scott Storch, is filling newspaper boxes, his manager's company announced that it was buying his mu ... More >>

You Can't Afford Not to Read Miami New Times' Scott Storch Profile

Illustration courtesy of Jason SeilerRoyal Flush: Scott Storch ​Miami New Times scribe Gus Garcia-Roberts has a gem of a feature about the rise and complete ruin of South Florida hip-hop producer Scott Storch, who once played John Travolta's role in Grease and can play any top 40 song from the pas ... More >>

Scott Storch's Foreclosed Palm Island Mansion Sold to Michael Savage's Son, Co-Owner of Rockstar Energy Drink

via PlumTV​Fallen superproducer Scott Storch lost his 20,000-square-foot Palm Island mansion to foreclosure. He paid $10.5 million for the pad in 2006, but SunTrust Bank foreclosed on the property last year and bought it back at auction for $5.5 million. Now the property, known by the cl ... More >>

Britney Recording With Scott Storch in Miami?

Photo by Sayre BermanBritney performed at the American Airlines Arena twice last year.​Everyone -- meaning, uh, people with too much time on their hands on the Internet -- flipped their shit yesterday when word got out that Britney Spears was spotted over the weekend in Miami. She touched down wit ... More >>

New Times' Dirty Dozen of 2009

Illustration by DerfDirty Dozen 2009 inductee Romero Britto.​Every year, the New Times editorial staff picks the people who brought a certain amount of shame to our city. Trust us, we're never in short supply of morons who we wish would move elsewhere. We contemplated in making this a baker's doze ... More >>

Moron of the Week: Self-Destructive Ponzi Baller Sean Healy

Photo via MySpace.com Never mind the fact hat he dresses like a club promoter. If your investment manager has a MySpace page, get a new investment manager.​Forget Flagler, Tuttle, and Brickell. We need to start naming streets and bridges after a historical figure whose legacy is honored eve ... More >>

Halloween costumes based on Miami's spookiest celebrities

How to Make Costumes Based on Miami's Spookiest Celebrities

​Between the state of the condo market, parking on South Beach, and the final price tag for the new Marlins stadium, Miamians have suffered through plenty of real-life horrors. So for Halloween parties this year, Riptide is going to put away the Freddy mask and show up in homemade costumes inspire ... More >>

Win Two Free Tickets to See DMX and DJ GQ at Revolution This Sunday, August 9

via myspace.com/dmx​It's been three years since the last studio offering from the famously volatile DMX. That seeming artistic dry spell starting in 2006 saw just a couple of greatest-hits type releases and a few film appearances. The last we really heard of DMX locally was this past December, whe ... More >>

We Swear We Won't Watch Scott Storch's Reality Show -- OK, Just the Pilot

In substance-abuse circles, you often hear talk of the moment you "hit rock bottom." For your average schmo, it usually involves stealing abuela's jewelry or fellatio behind a Burger King. For celebrities, there's an even more clear barometer of when you're smashing head-first into your own failure: ... More >>

More Turnover in Miami's Wild and Incestuous Exotic Rental Car Scene

Laura MassaThen.Last December, New Times went deep into the strange world of Miami's lawless exotic rental car market- a niche industry that seems to attract more than its fair share of fly-by-night hustlers. One of our wierdest encounters revolved around Exoticars, a tiny store on the ground-floor ... More >>

Scott Storch Is Back And He's Done Fuckin' With That Lindsay Lohan

Original keyboard player for The Roots, former Davie school kid, and still-a-super-producer Scott Storch is back in the studio. He got caught up in the bullshit Hollywood rock star lifestyle, blew through millions of dollars and hit rock bottom before he woke up in rehab. Give thanks, Storch is a g ... More >>

Scott Storch Charged with Grand Theft Bentley

DerfEarlier this week, Riptide wondered which celebrity would next be busted for driving drunk in a Bentley. Little did we know the next celeb crime caper involving a Bentley in South Florida wouldn't be a DUI, but in fact grand theft auto. It took someone months to notice, but apparently TMZ just l ... More >>

Budget Ballin'

To hell with the economy! South Florida's lawless exotic rental car industry keeps rolling.

The Game

LAX (Geffen)

The Party Crasher - Larry Johnson, Willis McGahee, Angie Martinez and Ja Rule Hit Karu&Y

The Party Crasher – Paris Hilton Spreads her Scent

The Party Crasher – Scott Storch and Timbaland’s Almost-Brawl At B.E.D.

The Party Crasher - Trick Daddy, Christina Milian, Ne-Yo and Scott Storch Celebrate

Bigg Dreams

Young quartet Bottom of da Map and manager/producer Bigg D hope to create a new Miami sound

You've Been Ralphed!

Hialeah homeboy Ralphige has become the most notorious crank caller in the world of hip-hop. Jerky Boys, watch your back

Redman

Red Gone Wild (Def Jam)

Fat Joe feat. Lil' Wayne

"Make 'Em Rain" (Terror Squad)

Danity Kane

Danity Kane (Bad Boy Entertainment)

Remy Ma featuring Swizz Beatz

"Whateva" (SRC/Universal)

We Major

Ricky Martin featuring Amerie and Fat Joe

"I Don't Care" (Columbia)

Fat Joe

All or Nothing (Atlantic)

Lean Back

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