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Miami's Seven Most Essential Rap Anthems

With EDM and PLUR on eternal overdrive in Miami, it's easy to forget the city's real musical roots. Before Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect, there were big, booty, bitches. The Magic City boasts its fair share of rap anthems that molded Dade County into a mecca for rump-shaking club hits. And it's O ... More >>

Trick Daddy on Lil Wayne: "If I Wanted to Start Shit, He'd Have Been in the Hospital for a Different Reason Than a Seizure"

The beef is still hot. Last month, Trick Daddy got heated over Lil Wayne disrespecting Dade County, LeBron, D-Wade, Bosh (and wife), and the #HeatGang. So he showed out, rolled up, and confronted Weezy at Miami's King of Diamonds strip club. There was apparently a scuffle, a flicked cigarette, so ... More >>

Trick Daddy "Sent Lil Wayne Packing Like a Little Bitch," Says Miami Rapper

Everybody's gotta answer to Da Mayor of Dade County. The other night at King of Diamonds, it was Lil Wayne's turn, as Trick Daddy defended the 305 and his beloved #HeatGang by chasing the Young Money maniac outta the titty bar. No word yet from KOD. But we here at Crossfade just spoke with a Miami ... More >>

King of Diamonds' Disco Rick: "Lil Wayne Is KOD ... Trick Never Made Him Leave"

As the don of Miami's KOD, business man and booty bass legend Disco Rick is the final word at "the world's largest & sexiest adult club." So what's he gotta say about Trick Daddy allegedly chasing Lil Wayne and his Young Money crew out of King of Diamonds? "Yo, that fake news and lies," Rick t ... More >>

Kanye West's I Am God and Ten Other Terrible Album Titles

Confidence is sexy, and a bold nature can turn a mouse into a king among men, but someone forgot to tell Kanye West the rule of subtlety. Personally, we think the egomaniacal musician is the genius he claims to be, but all things in moderation. Surely, his forthcoming album will be a righteous ga ... More >>

Rick Ross's MMG Tour at the Fillmore December 5

Labor Day 2012: Nine Best Rap Parties From Miami to South Beach

Labor Day is a magical day. It's a day for us, the common working-class people, to sit back, relax, and be celebrated. And what do we, the common folk, like to do on our days off? We like to blow all our hard-earned cash on expensive baller parties. That's why we work in the first place, right? ... More >>

Miami's top ten underground rap and hip-hop acts

Trina: Hip-Hop's Diamond Diva

Soul Clap Give Us Their Top Ten Miami Jams

​Read Crossfade's preview of this Saturday's party with Soul Clap at the Electric Pickle. If Bostonian power duo Soul Clap are known and revered for one thing, it's an infectious passion for old-school jams. Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine have turned '90s music appreciation into an institut ... More >>

Homeless Rap Outside Stone Groove at The Vagabond

via StoneGroove5000 youtubeTrick Daddy's cousin?​All of the lights in Downtown Miami are on and a rapper daps up a guy in the audience and goes into his verse:"Another brother got shot dead in the stone, pushin' the dope, stackin' the cheese. Now he dead, on the scene, and thass not really how it ... More >>

Trina! A Memorial Day Mixtape for Meeting Your Girls and Burning Your Boyfriend's Lexus

via Twitter​Trina is Da Baddest Bitch. And ever since we first heard her rhyming all brilliant with Trick Daddy, we knew the Miami-native was the strong feminine voice of our people, the 305 people. The platinum-selling artist is still putting out albums, making music with other big names like T- ... More >>

Test Your Pimp Game With Trick Daddy and Don Magic Juan at the Miami Players Ball

Trick Daddy got game.​In Trick Daddy's book about his life, Magic City: Trials Of A Native Son, he talks about the evolution of the urban hustle. Before the dope boy, there was the pimp, a slick talkin' motherfucker who was cold as ice and could have a ho on the track within ten minutes of meeti ... More >>

Trick Daddy Owes $150K to IRS, Had His Home Foreclosed On

​Trick Daddy may have a gift for capturing the soul of Miami streets in his lyrics, but apparently doesn't have much of a knack for keeping track of his finances. The Detroit News reports that Trick, real names Maurice Young, has had more than $157,000 in tax liens placed against him by the IRS, a ... More >>

50 Reasons To Absolutely Love Living in Miami

Yet another reason: The fact we hopefully don't have to explain to anyone this is a FriendsWithYou Valentine Card​​We love bashing our own city. We'll instantaneously bite the head off any non-Miamians who dares talk down about our town, but sometimes it seems we take a bit too much pleasure in ... More >>

Star Gazing at Peoples Bar-B-Que in Overtown

Miami doesn't have nearly the number of soul food restaurants as let's say the A-T-L or N'awlins. But what the 3-0-5 lack in quantity, the Peoples Bar-B-Que in Overtown makes up for with celebrity clout. The roster of repeat celebrity diners who gorge on fried chicken, candied yams, collard gree ... More >>

Mixtape of the Week: Gunplay's new project with P-Cutta

More 305 Hip-Hop: B.O. from Gunline Entertainment - "What I'm Into"

South Dade gets it in. We've told you a couple times before about Black Flag, B.O., Gunline Entertainment and Goon Muzik. Well Richmond Heights is at it again with their "Hottest Nigga In Da City," B.O., putting out another mixtape.The song in the above video is called "What I'm Into" with B.O. t ... More >>

Dinner Party, You Say?

Local Dance Team Will Make You Simultaneously Crave Cake and Contemplate Suicide

Last year, Miamian Tamien Bain -- an ex-con who had served time for robbing a McDonald's -- crafted a rap that nearly won a marketing contest for that same fast-food chain. Now some local high schoolers are finalists in a national dance contest for Baskin-Robbins. Maybe our city has an industry besi ... More >>

Make Beta Your Business

MTV News Celebrates the M-I-Yayo With its Very Own Week

Now that Heidi and Spencer have gotten married for realz, MTV has decided to give our fair city its very own week of in-depth musical coverage. This introductory article mentions the accomplishments of the usual suspects - Lil' Wayne, Flo Rida, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Khaled, and Cool & ... More >>

Memorial Day Weekend Festivities Start on Miami Beach Tonight

Here's a guide to some of the hottest parties tonight that kick off the long weekend on South Beach.Welcome to MiamiInk Nightclub, 717 Washington Ave., Miami BeachDoors open at 10 p.m., Tickets cost $30, miaminiceweekend.comSouth Beach Jump OffHosted by Fat Joe and Trick Daddy;With DJs Khaled, Entic ... More >>

Mixtape Review: Doormouse - 100% Real Wisconsin Cheese

I guess this is a week for me listening to local DJ's get down on mix tapes.  I know they aren't mix tapes anymore, but that's how I think of them.  There used to be little kiosks in Manhattan that us bridge and tunnel kids would flock to in order to purchase cassettes from DJ Clue?, Tony ... More >>

Trick Daddy Bids Farewell to Slip-N-Slide

And launches his own Dunk Ryder imprint.

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Sugar and Spice

Trina speaks up about what still makes her the baddest.

Trick Daddy Gets Roughed Up

Chevy Spring Fest with Trick Daddy & Rick Ross

Criminal Minded

Local hip-hopper Jediah has a debut album ready to drop, a penchant for feuds, major-league hype — and a lot of tattoos

Free Form Radio.com

Tired of the FM radio grind, DJ Affect hits the virtual airwaves

Save Our Rolexx!

305, Kickin’ It Live

Country-Fried Cackling

BEST LOCAL RAP RELEASE OF THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS

"Let's Go"

Best of 2004

Basshead

Miami Hip-Hop 2004

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Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic

Real Words

Ted Lucas says forget what you heard, Slip-N-Slide Records loves the kids

On the Come Up

305hiphop.com wants to turn rap beef into a full-course meal

Who's Hip-Hop?

The Source Awards is growing more inclusive -- but not too inclusive

Crunk Candy

On location with Lil Jon, Trick, hootchies, and director mamas

Thug Paradise

Tricky Daddy Dollars brings a little of Northwest Miami to South Beach

Sporting Life

No Good is on top of the game

Say Cheese, Mr. Trick

On the set with Miami's hip-hop big shot

Kulchurkampf: 365 Days of Pop Music

From trance to hip-hop, there's not much in between

Best Local Rap Album

Book of Thugs: Chapter AK, Verse 47

Ghetto Glorious

How three inner-city kids turned tragedy into a soon-to-be platinum hip-hop hit

Kulchur

Alternate realities

Best Rap Group

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