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Eating House Hosts Special 420 Dinner

Legend states that every day at 4:20 p.m., a group of teens in San Rafael, California met to search for an abandoned cannabis crop. The teens code named the plan, "4:20 Louis" in honor of the statue of Louis Pasteur where they hung out. The code was shortened to "4:20".  4:20 was later adopted ... More >>

An Open Letter to Snoop Lion About Ultra 2013, Weekend Two: That Shit Was Weak

Snoop Dogg, for getting high on stage at Ultra Music Festival, tossing blunts into the crowd, and almost maxing out the capacity of Klipsch Amphitheater, I salute you. For bringing your crew, running through the hits, testing new material, and throwing in a couple of covers, I salute you. For rockin ... More >>

Ultra 2013: Five Best Moments, From Snoop to Naked Dudes and 70-Year-Old Ravers

Welcome to Ultra land. The weather is perfect. The kids are nice. There are "No Guns Allowed." But famous lady rapper side-boob is plentiful. So are the naked dancing dudes. And even 70-year-old ravers feel totally at home. Quite honestly, Ultra Music Festival is paradise, if you're into fist-pump ... More >>

Snoop Lion at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Snoop Lion Headlining Bamboo Miami Beach's WMC and Miami Music Week 2013 Lineup

With the kickoff of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week just a little over seven days away, our anxiety has reached an all-time high. Only Election Day voting lines throughout South Florida, it seems, are longer than our WMC Party Guides, and that's becoming increasingly difficult to handle ... More >>

Sydney Blu, Boris, and Darude's Predictions for Epicness Aboard Groove Cruise 2013

"What happens on the ship stays on the ship!" Those are the rules of Groove Cruise, according to founder Jason Beukema. And today, for the ninth straight year, electronic dance music fanatics and so-called "exotic destination experience junkies" will be sailing out to sea in pursuit of EDM epicn ... More >>

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Phase 2 Lineup: Alesso, Eric Prydz, Snoop Dogg, Tons More

Just when you thought the party couldn't get any better, Ultra Music Festival has announced its Phase 2 lineup. So let's not bother with the formalities. Here's who's been added: Alesso, Benny Benassi, Dirty South, Dog Blood (Boys Noize & Skrillex), Eric Prydz, Fedde Le Grand, Hardwell, Loco D ... 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 >>

Snoop Dogg Lion Supports "Beating the Shit Out" of Mitt Romney and Voting for Michelle Obama's "Fat Ass"

It seems as though newly minted Rastafarian, Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Doggy Dogg), has picked up more than a newfound appreciation for the work of Haile Selassie in service of Jah Rastafari. If the one-time West Coast gangsta's Twitter is any indication (not to mention his endorsement of Obama), ... More >>

Neil Young Swears Off Reefer! Top Ten Musical Potheads Who Came to Abstain

In the lead up to the release of his autobiography, Neil Young sat down with the New York Times Magazine for a meaty, tell-all interview. Our favorite morsel? According to the rock 'n' roll legend, he's quit smoking marijuana once and for all! Neil isn't the first celebrity musician to give up the ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Lion Endorses Barack Obama, Says President "Bush F#$í Up"

See also "Snoop Doggy Dogg Lion and Six Other Musicians' Midcareer Name-Changes." During a recent trip to Toronto, hip-hop elder statesman and born-again reggae artist Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg) was asked about the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Snoop was in Canada promoting Reincarna ... 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 >>

Daddy Rap! Ten Hip-Hoppers Who've Gone From Bitches to Babies

Being a famous rapper is awesome. You get all the fancy cars, expensive champagne, and bad bitches your icy heart desires. It's all part of the job description. And for once in your life, you're doing it wrong if you don't brag about it to everyone! So what happens when shit gets real and a hip-hop ... More >>

Norway Busts Snoop Dogg for Weed, Targets Puppies for Cuteness Next

Airports, right? One minute, they're making you empty your bejeweled pimp chalice before going through security. The next, they're busting you for having eight grams of weed, as if that could even get a motherfucker high as a motherfucker. TMZ is reporting that Snoop Dogg was held and fined at the ... More >>

SunFest 2012: A Ten-Act Guide With Pitbull, Snoop Dogg, and Matisyahu

Who's in the mood for a music festival? We are! Thankfully, we don't have to wait long 'cause Sunfest kicks off tomorrow on the sunny West Palm Beach waterfront, running through the week till Sunday, May 6. The line-up boasts 51 artists bringing everything from rock to hip-hop, reggae, punk, and d ... More >>

Coachella 2012: Snoop, Dre, Santigold, and Other Top Moments From Sunday, April 22

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram." By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more ... More >>

Snoop Dogg's Rolling Words Smokable Book and Four Other 4/20 Gifts for Stoners

There's no doubt that Snoop Dogg knows how to celebrate 4/20. But the rapper has decided to prove himself yet again. Snoop recently announced that he will be releasing a novel, Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook. Yes, you read right. A regular book would be too boring. So if you want to smoke whi ... More >>

Dolphins on Acid and Dubstep Billy Goats: Top Five YouTube Party Animals

Yo, that monkey is totally hardcore!​A wise man once said, "All music is shit to God." Crossfade is not that wise, but we have to agree. And let's face facts, humanity: Ever since we all got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, music has sucked.You wanna know why? 'Cause everyone knows the freer yo ... More >>

Five Key Moments in the Chronology of Hipster Hop

Tyler the Creator: Is he the über-hipster hopper?​There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the group has been everywhere: SXSW, Coachella, and ... More >>

Snoop Dogg at Club Cinema March 11

Loco Dice at Space January 8

Loco Dice Gets Pure Gangsta at Space This Saturday

​With a name like Dice Corleone on his birth certificate, you know Loco Dice has to be pure gangsta. Which makes it kind of fitting that the international techno sensation was originally a hip-hopper. Born in Tunisia and raised in Germany, Dice started out as rapper, playing support slots for th ... More >>

Snoop Dogg at Mansion

Mixtape Of The Week: DJ EFX - Studio Session

​DJ EFX has been heavy on the South Florida mixtape scene and definitely left a mark on creating highly demanded instrumental mixtapes - as well as "Best Of" mixtapes. And more recently over the past couple years, EFX has been driven in the "Music Video DVDs" market that not a lot of people dive ... More >>

Nipsey Hussle

Smoke't barbecue goes down easy in the Gables

Watch the Freaknik: The Musical Trailer Featuring Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T-Pain and Snoop Dogg

We have no clue​T-Pain's Freaknik: The Musical is exactly the sort of amalgamation of talent and weirdness that the late-night, cartoon-watching, Doritos-eating demographic lives for, but how it plays out is a mystery. "It is based on Freaknik, a once popular annual festival in Atlanta, Georgia," ... More >>

Star Invasion

Snoop Dogg: Sultan of Smooth

His swagger is the same as ever.

Q&A with Snoop Dogg, Playing Opium at the Hard Rock This Saturday, August 1

Snoop Dogg is straight up the smoothest motherfucker in the business. Pardon the French, but there's just no description more fitting. The Dogfather can pretty much take credit for defining what rappers and hip hoppers across the board tout these days as their swagger, and it's doubtful anyone would ... More >>

Clearing Up the Blazed and Confusion: Yes, Mickey Avalon and Snoop Dogg Are Still Performing in South Florida on August 1

via myspace.com/mickeyavalonGutter-glam rapper Mickey Avalon plays SetThe Miami date of the Blazed and Confused Tour, originally scheduled August 1, was officially canceled a few days ago, but there was a lot of confusion in the aftermath. (This previous Crossfade post about it definitely devolved i ... More >>

Blazed and Confused Tour Date Moved to Orlando, Mickey Avalon Still Playing in Town

The South Florida stop of the Blazed and Confused tour, originally scheduled for August 1 at Bayfront Park in Miami, has been canceled. Promotion company AEG Live says it's due to "scheduling conflicts," and, strangely, the whole date seems to have been moved north to Orlando's Hard Rock Live, accor ... More >>

AEG Live Announces $10 Ticket Deal For The Blazed and Confused Tour on August 1

Not to be totally outdone by all of Live Nation's various and sundry discount deals of late, rival concert promotions titan AEG Live is announcing its own special deal. It's good on this Friday, only, for one show -- the Blazed and Confused tour date on August 1 at Bicentennial Park in Miami. The sh ... More >>

Snoop Dogg, Slightly Stoopid, and Stephen Marley coming August 1

The aptly titled "Blazed and Confused Tour" is making a stop at Bicentennial Park in Miami on Saturday August 1. For those of you (read: all of us) who missed Snoop Dogg at Langerado this year, this is your chance to get incredibly high (on music of course) with a few thousand likeminded friends. Jo ... More >>

Initial Lineup Announced for Langerado 2009: Snoop Dogg, Chromeo, Bad Brains, Public Enemy, Cafe Tacuba, and More

After much Internet gossip and rumor-mongering, the folks behind Langerado announced they would release the first phase of the festival's 2009 lineup yesterday morning. That didn't happen, with a delay as organizers "finalized last-minute details." Still, this morning they've come forward with a few ... More >>

"Sensual Seduction" on the Brain

’Twas the Day Before Christmas

And mama needs a massage, stat!

Toke These Tunes

You’ll want to inhale THCv2.0

Messing Around with Movies

This troupe finds the funny in film

Snoop Dogg

The Best of Snoop Dogg Priority

Korn

Twisted Transistor Virgin

SET LIST

Snoop Dogg

DJ Entice

Projekt Revolution

Eve

Eve-Olution "Ruff Ryders"

HellFest

Snoop Dogg Howls Again

The Future of Rock and Roll

We've seen it in a crystal ball and the pictures aren't pretty

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