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Young Buck and Five Other Rapper Evictions or Foreclosures

Just two months after he was the target of a drive-by shooting in Nashville, Young Buck has come under fire yet again. But this time, it's Uncle Sam pulling the trigger and blowing smoke up Buck's ass. According to TMZ, the Internal Revenue Service is demanding that the former G-Unit rapper fork ... More >>

Radio One Fest With Waka Flocka Flame, T.I., Fat Joe Comes to Miami on July 7

Just three days after the United States turns the big 2-3-6, BlackPlanet Radio, the U.S. Army, and other sponsors are throwing a post-Independence Day bash in Miami-Dade County featuring performances by some of America's biggest rappers. It's called the Radio One Fest and it'll be going down Satur ... More >>

Lil Wayne Settles "Lollipop" Legal Drama for $20 Million

It only took about 400 days, but Lil Wayne's $20-million "Lollipop" legal drama has finally been settled. Last year, producer Darius "Deezle" Harrison filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Young Money Entertainment and Cash Money Records for unpaid royalties from sales of Weezy's 2008 Gramm ... 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 >>

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 >>

T.I. Thinks Some Gays Are "Not American" and African Americans Are Too Sensitive

​Just 61 days removed from his 11-month stint in a federal prison and halfway house, T.I.'s already starting shit. In an interview with Vibe magazine, the Atlanta-based rapper, actor, and author is quoted as saying that some gays are "not American." He's also defended his statement on TMZ Live b ... More >>

White Party 2011: Bare Chests, Sexy Suspenders, and Fabulous Headdresses

​Over the weekend, Miami Seaquarium was swarmed by Care Resource's friends and supporters for the 2011 edition of annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser White Party. As always, the dress code was "white." But this year, bare chests (both bearishly hairy and totally depilated), sexy suspenders (usually preven ... More >>

DJ Khaled's Birthday Bash at Mansion November 25

​Over the weekend, Miami Seaquarium was swarmed by Care Resource's friends and supporters for the 2011 edition of annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser White Party. As always, the dress code was "white." But this year, bare chests (both bearishly hairy and totally depilated), sexy suspenders (usually preven ... More >>

Big Boi Avoids Jail Time for Ecstasy and Viagra Bust in Miami

​If you listened real close when Outkast rapper Big Boi (AKA Antwan Patton) disembarked from a cruise ship at 1:35 p.m. on August 7 and got busted by Miami-Dade K-9 cops while carrying three kinds of contraband (MDMA, Ecstasy, Viagra) and "drug paraphernalia," you could almost hear the cell door t ... More >>

Foster the People and Lil Jon Get Indie Crunk at LIV October 21

Via facebook.com/fosterthepeople​Pumped-up kicks and a pimp chalice. That's all you'll need Friday, October 21, when Foster the People perform live at LIV, and Lil Jon tackles the ones and twos. They're not playing together. But both acts are scheduled to appear at the Fontainebleau nightclub ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Puff Daddy, and DJ Khaled get a deadline

Via facebook.com/fosterthepeople​Pumped-up kicks and a pimp chalice. That's all you'll need Friday, October 21, when Foster the People perform live at LIV, and Lil Jon tackles the ones and twos. They're not playing together. But both acts are scheduled to appear at the Fontainebleau nightclub ... More >>

Lil Wayne And DJ Khaled Are Gonna Lose Their Miami Residency

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 doesn't like how Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled use Miami but don't give back to the Magic City. I've got a m ... More >>

Jay-Z and Eminem top Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once 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 doesn't like how Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled use Miami but don't give back to the Magic City. I've got a m ... More >>

Jay-Z Is King of the Hip-Hop Throne

Luther "Luke" Campbell, 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 declares the best MCs in hip-hop.After listening to the new Jay-Z and Kanye West album, Watch the Throne, I was left ... More >>

Lil Wayne Earns 18 BET Hip Hop Awards Nominations, Tweets About "Wakk" Skate Park

​Earlier this morning, Lil Wayne shot off a sour-ass tweet about a "wakk" Nebraskan "Sk8 park." Evidently, the Cash Money Millionaire was too busy skating shitty ramps and rails to address the news of his 18 BET Hip-Hop Awards nominations. Naturally, Mr. Carter received nods for his personal sty ... More >>

Oily Bods and Beach Balls at Lords South Beach's Cabana Boy Pool Party

Photo by Ciara Osorio​There's nothing better than strapping on your Speedo, soaking up some rays, and getting a little tipsy in the plunge pool at "an appropriately oriented hotel" like Lords South Beach while oily bods and beach balls fly around willy-nilly. As Lords itself proclaims, that's th ... More >>

Big Boi Busted For Two Different Kinds of Ecstasy and Viagra in Miami

​TMZ is reporting that rapper and one half of OutKast, Big Boi (AKA Antwan Patton), has been arrested in the Magic City.The charges are three counts of possession of a controlled substance (MDMA, Ecstasy and...Viagra?) and one count of drug paraphernalia. All four charges are felonies in Miami-Dad ... More >>

Ciara at Malibu Rum's Radio MaliBoom Boom Tour, July 16

Photo by Gaby Izarra​Ciara With DJ Skribble Finnegan's on the River July 16, 2011 Better Than: Any other night at any other Finnegan's. Remind me to hit up every Malibu-sponsored event for the rest of my life. Watching Ciara for free was already a sweet deal. But free booze, t-shirts, and guac ... More >>

Five Weezy Slow Jams Better Than "How To Love"

​There was a period of time -- from, let's say, Tha Carter II  to the first few mixtapes after Tha Carter III -- when Lil Wayne was maybe actually for serious The Best Rapper Alive. The second Carter LP is the capstone of the early 2000s tinny, minimal, and dumb Cash Money bling-bling era. ... More >>

Killer Mike at PAX June 17

​There was a period of time -- from, let's say, Tha Carter II  to the first few mixtapes after Tha Carter III -- when Lil Wayne was maybe actually for serious The Best Rapper Alive. The second Carter LP is the capstone of the early 2000s tinny, minimal, and dumb Cash Money bling-bling era. ... More >>

Celebrate Tupac's 40th Birthday in ATL With Afeni Shakur, Erykah Badu, and Mike Epps

​On June 16, 1971, a little thug by the name of Tupac Amaru Shakur came screaming into this world. He was the son of Black Panther Party members, a scrawny kid with a big mouth, who grew up in the streets during the crack epidemic, studied ballet and jazz at a fancy Baltimore arts school, and b ... More >>

Ten Photo Highlights From Aqua Girl Pool Party

Photo by Ciara Osorio​After a half-week's worth of happy hours at the Palace, girl-on-girl bowling, traffic jams, and Havana nights, Aqua Girl 2011's hottest, wettest, and wildest six hours took place this Saturday when the annual lesbian, bisexual, and trangender fest stripped down to its bikini, ... More >>

Lil Jon's a Beverage Pimp and Five Other Quick Facts About the Godfather of Crunk

​Lil Jon, even Donald Trump respects his hustle. But the master of Crunk is more than just your favorite celebrity apprentice. And this Wednesday night at LIV, the Atlanta-based business mogul will be sliding through the Dirty Hairy party and bringing all his "Whaaaaat's!!!," "Yeeeeaaah's!!!,"&n ... More >>

Janelle Monae at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 11

​Lil Jon, even Donald Trump respects his hustle. But the master of Crunk is more than just your favorite celebrity apprentice. And this Wednesday night at LIV, the Atlanta-based business mogul will be sliding through the Dirty Hairy party and bringing all his "Whaaaaat's!!!," "Yeeeeaaah's!!!,"&n ... More >>

Tiësto Spotted at Santa's Enchanted Forest's Techno Power

Photo by Ciara OsorioIs that you, Tiësto?​There are a lot of things we expect to encounter when going to Tropical Park in west Miami-Dade for Santa's Enchanted Forest: chongas, carnies, awesome carnival food. But we definitely don't expect to see a superstar DJ.Nevertheless, we spotted Tiësto th ... More >>

Playboy Magazine and Lil Jon Gonna Get Sprung at Cameo for New Year's Eve

Lil Jon is alive and well. Ditto, crunk.​There have been rumors that Playboy is going out business, and Hugh Hefner's empire of fake tits and airbrushed cellulite would wither away like the editor's wrinkly wiener after the Viagra's worn off. There was also a rumor that Lil Jon suffered a mild he ... More >>

Photos From Le Baron's Opening Night at Florida Room

Photo by Ciara Osorio"I bet I'll look fancier if I twirl around my mustache." ​Well, that was easy. We weren't entirely sure we'd be able to sneak our camera into the ultra-exclusive pop-up nightclub, Le Baron, at the Florida Room. But our photog, Ciara Osorio, snapped a few shots last night for ... More >>

Rick Ross Doin' Heavy Work on New Tracks by Jamix Foxx and Big Boi

​Carol City-raised rapper Rick Ross has been keeping real busy lately. Whenever we hear a fresh new track from a hip-hop heavy hitter or an up-and-comer, there's a 87-percent chance he's the one we can thank for it. Does he get lured into these collaborations because deep down he's really soft and ... More >>

Big Boi, ¡Mayday!, and ArtOfficial at Trinumeral Festival's Final Night

Big Boi in lights!The Trinumeral Festival With Big Boi, ¡Mayday!, ArtOfficial, Juan Basshead, Mochipet, and more Sunday, October 10, 2010 (10/10/10!!!) Grand Central Better Than: Probably the other two nights of the Trinumeral Festival. There's no doubt that 10/10/10 is a date that will make any ... More >>

28 Random Lil Wayne Lyrics for His 28th Birthday

Jonathan Mannion / Cash Money Records​Lil Wayne celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday at New York City's Rikers Island. And even though he's currently locked up (due back in a month or so), he and his Cash Money Records crew also used his birthday to release the digital version of Weezy's new alb ... More >>

T.I. Releases His New Single "Pledge Allegiance to the Swag"

Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images​T.I. has been all over the news this week. First, his latest film, Takers, is doing amazingly well, reaching #1 at the box office. Then he and wife Tameka Cottle were arrested on Wednesday, allegedly for drug possession, just a month after their secret Miami we ... 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 >>

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 >>

Free Big Boi Concert on South Beach This Wednesday at SoBe Live

​If you have ever, ever professed to love hip-hop, here are two things you need to do/plan to do, immediately, if you haven't completed at least step one:1) Get Big Boi's new solo album, Sir Luscious Left Foot ... the Son Of Chico Dusty. If you haven't listened yet, well, what the hell have y ... More >>

Mixtape of the Week: The Game's Brake Lights

​If you have ever, ever professed to love hip-hop, here are two things you need to do/plan to do, immediately, if you haven't completed at least step one:1) Get Big Boi's new solo album, Sir Luscious Left Foot ... the Son Of Chico Dusty. If you haven't listened yet, well, what the hell have y ... More >>

Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane Video For "Steady Mobbin": Miami Real Estate Porn, Interesting Use for a Grammy

​Voila, the magic of editing! Just as Weezy was going away to prison, Gucci Mane was preparing to be set free. Yet somehow the rappers with overlapping sentences have managed to (finally) release a new video for their collabo track "Steady Mobbin." Yes, the song's already dominated the summer airw ... More >>

Mixtape Of The Week: Rick Ross & Big Boi - Southernplayalisticmaybachmusic (Mixed by Mick Boogie)

​World-renowned DJ Mick Boogie has built a stable collection and archive of past mixtapes that comes second to none. Always taking the road less traveled, it seems, Ohio-born Boogie definitely comes up with great concepts and themes for his own mixtapes.Enter two of the most anticipated ... More >>

VH1 Hip-Hop Honors 2010 Recap: Top 8 WTF-Worthy Moments

2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors |Hip Hop Rally Machine |Hip Hop Honors Video Despite the theme of our earlier post about last night's VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show, the entire thing was not, in fact, about Miami. Atlanta, Virginia Beach, New Orleans, and Houston all got their due as well, represented by arti ... More >>

VH1 Hip-Hop Honors 2010: Five Things to Look Forward To During Tonight's Broadcast

via facebook.com/AsherRothSorry, but Asher Roth does NOT belong on this show, and we're waiting to see if he gets booed.​This year's annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show seems to be one of the most contentious to date, thanks to its focus on "Honoring the Dirty South." On one hand, you've got maj ... More >>

Crunk and Roll

via facebook.com/AsherRothSorry, but Asher Roth does NOT belong on this show, and we're waiting to see if he gets booed.​This year's annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show seems to be one of the most contentious to date, thanks to its focus on "Honoring the Dirty South." On one hand, you've got maj ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Gucci Mane

Welcome back, Gucci Mane. The Alabama-born, Atlanta-based trap rapper's songs are full of street swagger and sordid tales, and his latest series of personal misfortunes back it all up as reality. While he finally scored a major deal with Warner Bros. last year, his celebration period would be short- ... More >>

Klutch Your Cannon

Welcome back, Gucci Mane. The Alabama-born, Atlanta-based trap rapper's songs are full of street swagger and sordid tales, and his latest series of personal misfortunes back it all up as reality. While he finally scored a major deal with Warner Bros. last year, his celebration period would be short- ... More >>

DJ Khaled: Still the best?

Welcome back, Gucci Mane. The Alabama-born, Atlanta-based trap rapper's songs are full of street swagger and sordid tales, and his latest series of personal misfortunes back it all up as reality. While he finally scored a major deal with Warner Bros. last year, his celebration period would be short- ... More >>

Rappers like Lil Wayne and T.I. have a right to bear arms

Welcome back, Gucci Mane. The Alabama-born, Atlanta-based trap rapper's songs are full of street swagger and sordid tales, and his latest series of personal misfortunes back it all up as reality. While he finally scored a major deal with Warner Bros. last year, his celebration period would be short- ... More >>

Rappers Have A Right To Bear Arms

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Up this week, Luke explains why famous rappers such as Lil Wayne and T.I. get caught with illegal guns.Earlier this month, Lil Wayne began a ... More >>

Mixtape of the Week: Rick Ross - A Timeless Audemars Piguet Collection

​As Rick Ross preps the release of his fourth studio album, Teflon Don, Rick Ross gathers a team of DJs to collaboratively release an official mixtape that will serve as the warm-up of sorts for the album. The mixtape is interestingly titled A Timeless Audemars Piguet Collection. Presumably a play ... More >>

Meet Dr. Virgil Mongalo, the Dentist Who Made Lil Wayne Spit (Literally)

Dr. Virgil and Mr. Carter​Last week, I asked New Times Miami Music Editor Arielle Castillo if we should track down the dentist who gave Lil Wayne his eight root canals for the jaw-dropping sum of reportedly $150,000. Her response was rational: "doctor-patient confidentiality, right?"Fortunately fo ... More >>

Kevin Rudolf Is Cash Money's First Rock Act

And it doesn't hurt that Lil Wayne is on the "gangsta emo" guy's debut single.

Uncle Al's Peace in the Hood Festival

And it doesn't hurt that Lil Wayne is on the "gangsta emo" guy's debut single.