Sean Combs

Cheeseburger Baby Celebrates 13 Years in SoBe: Drunks, Diddy, and Locals

More than a decade before the onslaught of burger joints invaded Miami, Cheeseburger Baby began serving up America's favorite sandwich to beachgoers and club kids. It has been around 13 year, in fact.Cheeseburger Baby's current owner, Stephanie Vitori, started as a delivery driver at the restaurant, ... 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 >>

Snoop Doggy Dogg Lion and Six Other Musicians' Midcareer Name-Changes

If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Unless you're a millionaire musician with a megasuccessful career. And then fuck it, change your name completely. We're pretty sure that's how the old adage goes, and that's what you'd be led to believe by Crossfade's little list of moniker madness. When an artist ... More >>

The Twelve Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

​Wow, where'd the week go? We were having so much fun blogging that we nearly forgot about the weekend. Turns out, there's a lot of cool shit going on. Did you know that Miami's one of the few places where marathons are run in the winter? No, we're serious. Just wait till Sunday, you'll see. Oh, ... More >>

Rick Ross Throws Birthday Bash at South Beach's Amnesia Nightclub on January 29

​Say "Happy B-Day!" to The Boss. On Saturday, January 28, 2012, Miami rapper, superhefty hustler, and Maybach Music impresario Rick Ross (born William Leonard Roberts II) turns 36 motherfuckin' years old. We imagine the Big Man intends to celebrate the day of his birth by waking up late to coun ... More >>

Art Basel Miami Beach: Ten Places to Spot a Celeb Listening to Music

​Art Basel Miami Beach is a horrible, crippling beast. It stands, hovering over the first week of December, forcing free drinks down your throat, making you listen to terrible music and look at bad art. Sometimes, though, every once in a while, it takes a step back and shows you the light, somet ... More >>

Who Leaked Tupac Shakur's Sex Tape? Crossfade's Top Five Smutspects

​Ever since yesterday's announcement of a Tupac Shakur sex tape featuring the rapper broing down with Digital Underground bandmates, a blunt, and a blowjob, Crossfade has been going certifiably insane trying to figure out the identity of the anonymous source planning to comercially release this X- ... More >>

Santana, Pharrell, and Lil John: Celebrities With Liquor Brands

​These days it's not enough to have just one job. In this economy, you have to be a hustler to get by. If you're lucky, maybe you'll even be successful.Celebrities are no different; they like to have their hands in the cookie jar too. It's easy to criticize stars -- say they're sellouts. We say th ... 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 >>

SXSW 2011: Wanda Jackson, Dead Milkmen, Jeff the Brotherhood, and Ty Segall

Wanda Jackson got the crowd twisting and shaking. ​All week, everyone was talking, "Michael Cera's here, Michael Cera's there. Where's Michael Cera?" On the morning of the final day of South by Southwest, we headed to a little Mexican restaurant called Mi Madre's. After ordering breakfast tacos, t ... More >>

Tiger Blood: Coming to a Supermarket Near You

via ssoosay​Have you been obsessively refreshing Charlie Sheen's Twitter page seeking more doses of #tigerblood to get through your sad, pathetic day? Have all of your dreams this week involved porn-star goddesses feeding you chocolate milk through straws made of cocaine? Do you end all of yo ... More >>

One Party United Under Hip-Hop

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke starts a worldwide political movement.Around this time last year, undercover racist movement Take America Back began to take s ... More >>

305 Live: Rick Ross Teflon Don Early Sales Predictions, and More Local Hip-Hop News

Photo by David "Dro" Rosario​ -- While Rick Ross' album Teflon Don has definitely built up an insane amount of buzz over the past few months, the album was finally released this past Tuesday amidst a couple local festivities to help bring in Ross' fourth major label effort. Even though the music ... More >>

Top 10 Moments of the BET Awards 2010: Chris Brown, Drake, Rick Ross, and More (With Video!)

We love music awards season this year, largely thanks to Twitter -- the real-time discussion and dissection of the county's pop-stars makes for an entertaining way to spend a few hours "working." (Plus, some of you all on our Twitter feed, at @Crossfade_SFL, are hilarious).Anyways, we glued ourselve ... 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 >>

Head Spins: DJ Radamas

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 >>

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: 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 >>

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 >>

305 Live: Local Hip-Hop News from ArtOfficial, Rick Ross, Mayday, and More

ArtOfficial​--Local hip-hop and jazz fusion group, ArtOfficial, released a new song from their new project, The Payback, which is set to release on April 23rd via free download. The song they released is actually the title track that is also called "The Payback" and features New York City's K. Spa ... More >>

Naked Pictures of Trina Are On the Internet, So, Of Course, the FBI is Involved

​Not so flattering nude pictures of Miami rapper Trina leaked to the internet yesterday, and the Diamond Princess is calling in the FBI.Trina tells MTV news that a thief stole her cell phone at the BET Awards last October, and that the criminal tried to shake her down for money."I just think it wa ... More >>

A look at 2009 in dance music

Stargaze on Earth at LIV

BET's College Hill: South Beach Premiers Next Week

via PR Newswire College Hill is basically BET's answer to the Real World, but with a lot less transsexuals and eye-liner wearing boys from Utah, and a lot more students from historically black universities. Seven students from throughout the country live together for a semester. In the first few sea ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalA policeman sped through an intersection and hit a young mother's car, ramming it into the side of a house. The woman died, and a lady inside the house was taken to the emergency room. The officer was following a car whose driver was wanted for speeding. [Herald]Michelle Spence Jones is playing ... More >>

Diddy Will Deny The Bearcat's Fancy Hotel Stay

It is football day here on Riptide apparently, so we'll keep this post short. The Cincinnati Bearcats will be playing in the Orange Bowl on New Years Day against Virginia Tech (a game the Canes, theoretically, could be playing in if they didn't have such a deep commitment to ruining everything). S ... More >>

Q&A With T-Pain, Performing at AAA on Sunday

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Ko ... More >>

Violence Follows Naomi Anywhere She Goes

Naomi Campbell is in town to the host the reception for a photo exhibit dedicated solely to the glorious human mannequin that is her. When we first blogged about it we didn't make any flying Blackberry jokes. We didn't imagine her beating down any bouncers. Instead, we decided to go the restrained, ... More >>

Over The Weekend - Madonna, Q-Tip and White Party Week

Talk about your long weekends. Most of us, although not us at New Times, had a four-day weekend thanks to the Thankgiving holidays. That gave plenty of you time to celebrate Black Friday by crushing your fellow man to death as you and thousands of others rush into your local Wal-Mart to get that ext ... More >>

The Party Crasher - Lil Wayne's Birthday Bash

They Killed the Dog

Souto Steamed Over Suit Support

"Money used to reverse the rezoning is money dedicated to the preservation of Vizcaya"

Tom Laroc and Ron Luna

The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge, and Avery Storm

"Nasty Girl" (Bad Boy)

Scene and Heard

More Billboard Latin Music Awards stories

Club Planet

For Erick Morillo, it's all about booty calls and disco balls

Basshead

Ice Age

Mansion Meets Hype

Just watch out for P. Diddy

Buzzed

Musician still has bite

Snow Bunnies

The VIPs are at it again

Hip-Hop Cyrano

Meet Smitty, one of the most successful lyricists you've never heard of

Sexless Beast

Celibate celebrity stays south for the season

The Rope Is in Your Mind

Doormen share the secret to cracking the Clubland Matrix

J. to the R-E-N to the izzO

Next up: Gerry Kelly for governor

God Bless the Playa

Empty pockets still don't ever make the grade

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of August 2, 2000

All Puffed Up

If you're Puff Daddy and you're in need of a career boost, come on down to Miami

South Beach Drinks Up and Goes Home

The party may be over but life -- real life -- goes on

The Flesh Made Word