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…
Double-platinum country music recording star and the oft-tormented Mindy McCready was found dead at her Arkansas property last night, the victim of an apparent suicide. She was 37. According to a statement released by the Cleburne County Sheriff’s office, McCready died of a self-inflected gunshot wound Sunday afternoon on the…
In the shadows of a cocaine skyline, in the bitter freeze of winter, with fewer than a legion of supporters, and a raging douchenozzle hellbent on destruction … The seven samurai of Fishbone gathered by the river, armed for battle, and unleashed a sonic boom of future funk on the…
Murs Road to Paid Dues Tour With Fashawn, Prof, DJs Foundation and Fundo The Stage Miami Friday, February 15, 2013 On February 10, 2004, when Kanye brokered the peace deal between the benzes and the backpacks at Camp ‘Ye-vid, Murs stayed in the trenches looking at that bridge like it…
Wait … We thought the whole Deadmau5 vs. Ultra Music Festival thing had been resolved? Back in December 2011, the King Rat (a repeat Ultra headliner) kicked off a largely one-sided feud by posting a YouTube rant that slammed the festival for its high ticket prices, exclusivity contracts, and doing…
Danny Daze is a superstar DJ. After spending years grinding out five-day work weeks in the MIA, this local EDM mastermind finally broke free with “Your Everything,” a major club banger that officially turned him into a big fucking deal. He’s relocated to Spain. And he’s become a fixture on…
Two weeks ago, Robbie Rivera kicked off the beat-freaking season by revealing the nine-act Phase One lineup for Juicy Beach 2013. The roster was already loaded with Mr. Rivera, Bob Sinclar, Cosmic Gate … But the Juicy crew still promised more “all star talent to be announced in the coming…
It’s damn tough trying keep a bar or club open in Miami. Most times, as soon as the shine wears off a cool new joint, our city’s fickle glitterati and hipster horde simply get sick of the place, dismissing it as “over” and dooming yet another party spot to nightlife…
Generation Wild Tour With Deniz Koyu, Danny Avila, dBerrie and Mikael Weermets Thursday, February 14, 2013 Better Than: Speed dating for a Valentine’s companion. Did the youth of Miami prove they party hardest? Last night, the Generation Wild Tour made its stop at LIV for a crowd of eye-contact enthusiasts,…
The artist formerly known as Tity Boi (AKA 2 Chainz) was “riding round [and] gettin’ it” with six of his homies last night on his way to a homecoming show at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore when state police pulled the rapper over on a routine traffic stop. Unfortunately…
It’s the worst feeling in the world; you’ve washed the blood off your hands and packed the corpse in the trunk when, all of a sudden, you and your accomplices find a heavily bandaged wheelchair-bound man on the side of the road. Exposed only by a small hole in the…
A wise man once sang, “I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on these drums all day.” And lord almighty, do we relate. Especially when working consists of writing about other shmucks banging on drums all day. Lucky for us (and you, and most of the industrial world), the…
Michael Glabicki is 2 and a half years old. His bloody head is on the pavement. Tiny body still. Pupils pointed skyward. Eyes empty. The car that nearly crushed him has finally stopped moving, but the pain is a beating drum inside his skull. And the gleaming light that shines…
