Strippers are stars. Just ask 305 rapper and Rick Ross collaborator Ice Billion Berg. Like any straight-up gentleman with a lifetime platinum membership at the gentleman’s club, he’s got mad respect for the inner strength, physical prowess, and work ethic of the average exotic dancer. “It’s a way a lot…
Y’all ready to get your HARD on? It’s beginning to look a lot like springtime. And as such, electro bangers will soon drown out every other noise Miami generates in a 24-hour period — construction, traffic, chusmeria — as part of the March tradition known as Winter Music Conference and…
Who in the 305 “want[s] to get up close and personal with your favorite #RizinStar artist?” Well, sorry. It ain’t gonna happen ’cause the Rizinstar Tour with Travis Porter, Kirko Bangz, Ca$h Out, and others has nixed its show at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami. The venue…
Rusted Root as Part of Virginia Key Grassroots Festival 2013, February 21 to 24
Lotus at Culture Room February 22
Bachaco at Jazid February 23
Lil Wayne ain’t sorry. Just a few minutes ago, the Young Money maniac called up 99 Jamz’s Felisha Monet to discuss his war with the Miami Heat and his now-infamous taunt: “Fuck LeBron! Fuck She-Wade!… And, and, and I fucked Chris Bosh wife!” But when Ms. Monet confronted Weezy about…
Beware the Ides of March. No, not because someone’s planning to stab you in the back à la Brutus. But rather because this year’s Winter Music Conference kicks off on March 15, meaning you have only about three weeks of fake tanning sessions, CrossFit classes, and detoxing left until you’re…
If you’re going to listen to a DJ Pauly D set and you care at all about the legitimacy of the art form, you’ll need to get very, very drunk. But if you just really like clubbing and tanning and Pauly D, you’ll still probably want to get very, very…
Whether Lil Wayne is actually persona non grata at the American Airlines Arena remains a mystery. What is certain, however, is that Weezy is a classless, kiss-and-tellin’ fool who has fallen so far off the cultural-relevancy radar that only a childish rant about a professional basketball team and one of its…
Skeptical until about 46 minutes ago, we just learned there is, in fact, a God. And while it took her several years to answer the one prayer that we’d been repeating every night for the past 1,460 days, Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona is finally returning to Miami. The veteran crooner…
We here at Crossfade can’t wait to get back to doin’ the Backyard Boogie, gettin’ drunk in the midafternoon, just straight sippin’ from a pitcher of cold brew at Wood Tavern. So it’s exciting to hear that the Wynwood hangout could be getting an OK from the City of Miami…
Question #1: Is Lil Wayne banned from the home of the Miami Heat? Maybe. Although, the team hasn’t said shit since Weezy went bonkers, howling, “Fuck LeBron! Fuck She-Wade! … And, and, and, I fucked Chris Bosh wife!” during All-Star weekend in Houston. Question #2: Did LeBron, D-Wade, Bosh, and…
Some say “happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.” But in reality, happiness is a three-night cruise with Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas at the helm. For the first time ever, the 2004 People’s Choice Awards selection for Favorite Musical Group is hitting the high seas aboard the Carnival…
Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party…
MC Yogi grew up in the rough world full of drugs, gangs, pimps and hoes in the Bay Area. At around 18 years old, he discovered yoga, and later applied his new philosophy on life to making hip hop. Today, he’s independently sold over 100,000 albums. And this weekend, he…
Who is “Chris Bosh’s wife”? Well, we here at Crossfade, like everyone else living in Heat Nation, know her as Adrienne Williams, a lovely Venezuelan lady who secretly married the (almost) seven-footer in 2011 and then gave birth to a beautiful baby Bosh in 2012. But… The rest of America…
Has anyone seen the ’90s? What about the ’00s? Somehow, those two decades simply came and went, taking pagers, the newspaper industry, and record stores along with ’em. On the bright side, however, Father Time spared Naughty by Nature’s enduring 1993 hit, “Hip Hop Hooray,” which turned 20 years old…
A warning: Don’t fuck with the Heat. Unless you wanna get burned. And then chased outta town by a rabid mob of hard-core Dade County sports fanatics, led by a freakish orange-haired mascot with a miniature green basketball for a face. Of course, Lil Wayne don’t listen to nobody. So…
Comedy’s in a weird place right now. It’s seen a mass middlebrow resurgence of sorts, after inside-baseball podcasts and Louis CK’s artsy crit-baiting TV show. And it’s also seen new backlash, after Tosh.0’s rape jokes revealed that hecklers can be as much the victims of comedians as the other way…
Punxsutawney Phil is quite possibly the worst friggin’ groundhog weatherman in the world. Not only did the Pennsylvanian woodchuck predict an early spring about a week before a massive snowstorm ravaged the Northeast, Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day co-star also failed to mention that at least one part of Miami is…
“This ain’t no Twitter beefin’ or no online beef.” Last night at the Beats By Dre’s NBA All-Star Game finale party, Lil Wayne officially declared war on the Miami Heat. “You let them niggas know I’m from the streets,” the Young Money maniac snarled. “Just take it to the motherfucking…
