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Grammy Awards 2013 Nominees: From Frank Ocean to Black Keys and Rick Ross

Grammy-tastic! Last night, amid goofy, sexually tense intergenerational banter between co-hosts LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States announced the nominees for its 54th Grammy Awards, airing Sunday, February 10, on CBS. Genre-bending ... More >>

Ten Dumbest Rap Dances Ever: From the "Lean Like a Cholo" to the "Stanky Leg"

Hip-hop is a rich and varied culture. It's more than just the music, encompassing street art, DJing, fashion, and most definitely dancing. But this ain't the '90s, B. In recent years, the music has become mad ig'nant, and the b-boys have followed. Almost every shitty new rap song comes with its o ... More >>

Justin Beiber Announces Believe Tour, Wrapping Up in Miami on January 26, 2013

OK, Justin Bieber may be an uneducated twerp-derp who barely graduated high school. But damn, he's traveling all over the world and making more money every day than we'll ever see in our entire freaking lifetime. And just to run this fact in our face, the Biebster brat just announced his Believe t ... More >>

Are Justin Bieber and Rihanna Really Having Sex? Take Our Poll

If rumors are true, the world is nearing its inevitable end. Justin Bieber and Rihanna are "getting very friendly," according to Media Takeout, and Selena Gomez is fuming mad. In fact, she allegedly "dumped" the 18-year-old Canadian live lip-syncher after suspecting that the Biebz was "smashing" R ... More >>

David Guetta at Ultra Music Festival March 25

David Guetta, Dance Music's Pop Ambassador, Playing Ultra Music Festival on March 25

​​A few years ago, David Guetta was just another house music DJ who was huge in Europe and not nearly as well known here in the United States. Then came 2009, the year that the Parisian (one of France's top DJs since at least the late '80s) released his fourth album, One Love, and produced "I ... More >>

Miami R&B singer-songwriter Steven A. Clark on Stripes, his upcoming album, and being a hungry, semi-employed artist

Miami's Steven A. Clark Is a "Superhero" and He's Here to Help Save R&B

​Last year, when Frank Ocean's Nostalgia, Ultra and The Weeknd's House of Balloons dropped within weeks of each other, critics and music fans celebrated the arrival of a fresh movement in R&B. Though the moods of those recordings differed considerably, they were both remarkably self-assured an ... More >>

Miami Trio Brass Knuckles Talks Electrik Circus, Nervous Records, and "Lie to You"

Meet Brass Knuckles, a three-man production team that moonlights as a live electronic band. Repping the 305 to the fullest, Danny D'Brito, Tony Livadas, and Anthony Pisano have played all the biggest venues while also producing their own reoccurring party, Electrik Circus, at Grand Central. Over th ... More >>

Jason Derulo Breaks Neck, Checks Into Hospital, Cancels Tour, Posts Facebook Update

​Dancing like a star can be dangerous. The proof: Miami's own R&B crooner Jason Derulo fractured his neck practicing acrobatic tumbles for his Future History world tour. Derulo could have been paralyzed, but luckily avoided that fate. His tour, however, is canceled for the moment and Derulo ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas' Final Concert in Miami With Cee Lo, Trick Daddy, and Queen Latifah

​See the full 36-photo Black Eyed Peas at Sun Life Stadium slideshow. Black Eyed Peas With Cee Lo Green, T-Pain, Jason Derulo, and Sean Kingston Sun Life Stadium Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Better Than: A nice nap on the beach that ends in a blistering burn. In the history of final li ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Lettuce Dress and Other Pop News That Won't Change Your Life

Trade you a lettuce gown for that meat dress, Gaga. ​Do you ever wish you could be in two places at once? Better yet, how about 50 places at once? Sometimes we here at Crossfade get really pissed about the fact that we're stuck in our cubicle and not traveling to India to write about vegetariani ... More >>

Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, and Prince Royce at American Airlines Arena October 22

Enrique Iglesias's Strange Transformation From Latin Heartthrob to Crazy Horndog

​Remember when Madrid-born, Miami-raised pop star Enrique Iglesias broke onto the American music scene in the early 2000s? He had those sensitively angled brows, tastefully pumped-up muscles, and beautiful skin tanned to perfection by the South Florida sun. And that mole ... Oh, the mole! He was ... More >>

Prince Royce Talks Usher, Obama, and His Upcoming English-Language Album

Mun2.tv​If you've never heard of Prince Royce, get used to his name. The Bronx-raised, 22-year-old Dominican kid writes beautiful songs in both English and Spanish. In only three years, Royce has brought a new kind of bachata to the Billboard charts. And recently signed to Atlantic Records, he's ... More >>

Das Racist Not Reduced to Sex Objects at Grand Central, October 9

​See the full 30-photo Das Racist at Grand Central slideshow. Das Racist With Danny Brown and Despot Grand Central Miami Sunday, October 9, 2011 Better Than: The graveyard shift at a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. A Lot Better Than: Langerado. About a month ago, Langerado organizers a ... More >>

Top Ten Cheapest Celebrity Tippers

When it comes to tipping, Tiger is under par.​It was reported by TMZ that President Obama "dropped over $200" on a burger lunch for he and a large group of campaign volunteers at Ted's Bulletin Restaurant in Washington, D.C. -- and that he "tipped more than 35%."However, not all famous people are ... More >>

Billboard Latin Music Awards 2011: Winners, Losers, and Relative Unknowns

Pitbull got robbed at the Latin Billboard Awards!​That little chico Pitbull got robbed last night at the BankUnited Center on the campus of the University of Miami. And the entire world watched it happen. Well, maybe not everyone. But the people who saw Telemundo's broadcast of the Billboard ... More >>

Five Interviews With Future Pop Stars at the X Factor Tryouts In Miami

This morning at 6 a.m., a massive group of sincere, talented singers (and a equally massive gaggle of delusional people who think they're singers) gathered at the BankUnited Center to show the world's bullies that they actually are, in fact, special. Auditions for the upcoming Simon Cowell show, X ... 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 >>

Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso Talks Masquerade Motel, WMC, and Paris Hilton

​Only a couple of years ago, Swedish House Mafia members Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell were an underground triumvirate known mostly to hardcore partiers, EDM addicts, and wannabe DJs. But now these three club thugs are making serious moves into the mainstream. With its new album ... More >>

"Break a Bitch Down" (And Its Cleaner Version) By Young Chris Feat. Rico Love

Photo via myspace.com/ygoftherocYoung Chris​Last week we re-introduced you to Rico Love, the next big hitmaker climbing up the hip-hop / pop industry ranks based here in Miami. In a time when major labels aren't exactly quick to take gambles, it seems Universal Motown sees Rico as a sure bet. Las ... More >>

Enrique Iglesias honors his Miami upbringing with a new bilingual album

Q&A: 99 Jamz's DJ Entice Has Clearly Already Won

Via Myspace / NLPGimages.com​Known for taking up your airwaves everyday at 5:00 PM for WEDR's Drive At 5 mix, DJ Entice has been a South Florida mainstay for many years now. He caused a little bit of chaos a couple weeks ago when he exclusively premiered the unofficial, yet street-official Miami ... 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 >>

Head Spins: DJ Radamas

Head Spins: DJ Radamas

​It's 2 a.m. on a Saturday night at Space. College kids and club crawlers, thugs and lovelies, Latinos, Key rats, and tourists from every country with an airport are all losing themselves en masse to the thunder of DJ Radamas. "I love this," shouts Radamas over a wicked mix of vintage Biggie. "Nob ... More >>

Six Nicki Minaj Outrageous Video Outfits

Image via XXL Magazine​The last few years were pretty barren in hip-hop for female rappers. The once-great spitfires seemed to have all disappeared, tried to become actresses, or wound up in jail, even, in the case of the great Queen Bee, Lil Kim.Lil Kim's out now, but the successor to her throne ... More >>

DJ Khaled: Still the best?

Super Bowl 2010: Rihanna, Nas, Pitbull, Black Eyed Peas and More Performing this Weekend

We gotta feeling it's going to a jam-packed music weekend.​So it's coming: a giant tsunami of NFL athletes, super fans, and über-celebrities that's about to engulf the magic city with over-the-top poolside parties and non-stop open bar access. And as much as Super Bowl XLIV weekend is all about t ... More >>

Q&A With Da Pretty Boyz' J Remy

When Miami/Ft Lauderdale label Florida Boy Intertainment's publicist called us Here at Crossfade we support music from Florida as a whole, so when Da Pretty Boyz' people contacted us, we said sure, set up an interview. Da Pretty Boyz represent Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida and are ... More >>

New Conrad Miami Executive Chef Jonathan McCann Holds "Taste Above All Else" for Re-Launch of Atrio Restaurant & Wine Bar

Conrad MiamiNew logo, new menu and concept​Conrad Miami is no longer chefless. Executive Chef Jonathan McCann fills the four month void at its signature restaurant Atrio, since Michael Gilligan exited in the spring to join the W Hotel South Beach. McCann now oversees the Brickell luxury hotel's in ... More >>

The 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

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The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or ... More >>

Hip-Hop Fame at South Florida Strip Clubs

Local rappers know the road to stardom is through the champagne room.

The Party Crasher - Trick Daddy Rocks Santo

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Budding local R&B star Casely is only 21 years old, but he's got the musical chops of an industry veteran.

Boogie Board

Alpha Pup rides for the Los Angeles underground

Various Artists and

Bow Wow

Jermaine Dupri Presents . . . Young, Fly & Flashy, Vol. 1 So So Def/Virgin

Wanted Sony Urban Music/Columbia

Literary Crunk

Author Tamara Palmer digs deep into the Dirty South's rap explosion

Hit Parade

Our annual nonscientific tip sheet for WMC/M3's breakout tracks

On the Down-Low

Shovel away all that Usher, Prince and Lil Jon you've been jamming and dig this year's buried black-music treasures.

See You

On a busy VMA weekend, Miami raised the art of celebrity worship to new heights

Dirt Hustlin'

Pitbull may be down with Lil' Jon, but don't let the crunk-pop aftertaste fool ya

Bowl of Soul

This year's fest tastes a lot like the Eighties

Seeing Is Believing

Los Muñequitos de Matanzas show us what we've been missing for 50 years

The Fidel Fixation

Exactly 36 years ago the Central Intelligence Agency blew it at the Bay of Pigs. For an encore it created the biggest commando operation in U.S. history -- right here in South Florida. It's time for a sentimental tour.