Most of South Florida is on vacation this week, but Miami’s underground hip-hop scene refused to take a break in the final days of 2016. Since his release from prison last month, Kodak Black has been doing whatever he can to spread his recent hits to all of his fans across the world. Recently, the Project Baby linked with rap duo Rae Sremmurd to bring their collaborative single to life. Meanwhile, Miami Tip is making waves after releasing a full-length movie tied to her single “Don’t Stop.”

South Florida’s budding stars intend to wake you up and shake you senseless with their fresh music. Bizzy Crook wants the world to snap out of its stupor and provide major assistance for victims of war in Aleppo, as he vented in the form of a letter. SIN called out…

For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.

With New Year’s right around the corner, rappers in South Florida are taking every advantage of the final days of 2016 to release their latest work. Earlier this week, internationally acclaimed artist and Florida native LunchMoney Lewis recently linked up with Ty Dolla $ign for their new single. Meanwhile, you…

It’s been a long time coming for Miami’s own Ball Greezy. Last year, he deviated from hip-hop norms and looked inward on his first Feel My Pain mixtape, which featured Jim Jones on the title track. Now, as 2016 comes to a close, the Miami native prepares for the new…

This week, fresh off flexing his right to vote, Rick Ross dropped his remix of one of Solange’s stand-out tracks on A Seat at the Table before blessing us with a touching visual for his Black Market single “Free Enterprise,” featuring John Legend.

Miami artists know they don’t have to prove anything to anyone, but this week a few MCs decided to take some time out to remind the world of their hustle. Earlier this week, Ace Hood kept the spirit of Starvation 5 alive with a new video and provided an…

Local acts are starting to attract plenty of heat outside of the 305. Broward spitter Hi-Rez may be on a self-imposed hiatus at the moment, but throughout the last week, other SoFlo rappers have begun to pick up momentum inside the Sunshine State. While Little Havana rapper ER305 gives us…

Record Room studios in North Miami has hosted a who’s who of top-charting artists — everyone from Lil Wayne to Kent Jones has laid down tracks here. Its latest star-in-waiting could well be PBG Miami, who has spent plenty of nights cooking up dope in the lab with Cool &…

How big a week has this been for hip-hop in Miami? Our own DJ Khaled got to be President Obama’s hype man yesterday. Meanwhile, Rick Ross, his Maybach Music Group and plenty of other Miami emcees are going hard in the 4th quarter of 2016. After dropping off several major…

Since he dropped his debut mixtape, About A Girl, back in 2009, there’s been one thing on rapper Audubon’s mind: making it in the music industry. Once the star of MTV’s reality series, Washington Heights, Audubon, who was born Jonathan Perez, eventually traded his life on the small screen to continue the momentum of…

Early Tuesday morning, Hurricane Matthew hit the island of Hispaniola and battered Haiti. According to citizens on the island, the category four hurricane wreaked havoc after winds tore off rooftops and the rivers overflowed and flooded the streets. As of 11 a.m., the eye of the storm passed through Haiti…

In Miami, hip-hop heads hear the name “Supa Cindy” and instantly think of 99 JAMZ’s perky morning anchor who rocks the airwaves in between the Rickey Smiley Morning Show while keeping listeners updated with the latest in entertainment news and music. Now, thanks to Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group, “Supa…

Back in 2002, André “Scrilla” Scott’s relationship with Rick Ross was simply as a fan. As a college football player and aspiring rapper who hung out with the wrong crowd, Scott found a familiarity in Ross’ story, and looked up to him and what his music had done for Florida…

The fall season began in Miami right on time when the Game had some cold words for Meek Mill at Story. While the freestyles from their beef have been keeping the internet hot over the last week, other rappers in the 305 like Bobby Biscayne and Deeno aren’t quite finished…

DJ EFN and the Crazy Hood crew continue their mission to explore hip-hop culture around the world in Coming Home: Vietnam. Last night, on September 15, Crazy Hood Film Academy hosted a private screening of the fourth installment of EFN’s docu-series — which has previously tackled countries like Cuba and Haiti…