Ultra Music Festival is the best. We here in Miami are super spoiled to have it every year. But don’t you wish you could pick up and take that experience overseas? OMG, you totes can now! Experience the joy of UMF at a greater cost! It’s going to be just…
“I’m a certified man. I am a real boss.” That’s the official Rick Ross response to all the suckas who think that death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples could keep the Bawse from doin’ work. Last week, GDs from NC warned Rozay about exploiting the…
On Sunday morning at approximately 3 a.m., latin pop star Jenni Rivera boarded a private Learjet in Mexico, along with two pilots and four other passengers including her publicist, lawyer, and makeup artist. Ten minutes later, they were all dead. The victims of a tragic plane crash in the desert…
The Bawse just canceled the last six shows of his MMG Tour. Earlier today, we here at Crossfade mentioned that two dates in North Carolina got nixed after Ross received death threats from Gangster Disciple members. But now representatives of Maybach Music Group tell us that all concerts till December…
The Bawse is wanted. Just two days after a triumphant hometown throwdown at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Maybach Music crew, Rick Ross has received death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, a street gang founded on Chicago’s South Side in the ’60s by David…
There have been grumblings about the festival’s unwillingness to refund ticketholders’ cash.
Fun fact: “Music makes the world go ’round.” Well, at least according to the official hype for Ultra Europe, the three-day EDM extravaganza from Ultra Music Festival and Croatian partner company Adria MM Productions. Another fun fact: “Music” (and especially “electronic dance music”) makes early-bird tickets disappear. In ten minutes…
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 R&B guy Frank Ocean scored with…
Oh, Trina … Da Baddest Bitch has done it again. And by it, we here at Crossfade mean she accepted a bunch of money and then allegedly bailed on a job. Clearly, Trina is just a bossy chick who’s allotment of fucks ran out a good while ago. Now she…
Putting together a proper showcase for classic Miami bass music in 2012 has proven to be a tall order. Early this year, Uncle Luke hyped up a 20-date “Lollapolooza of Bass music” that he was planning for the summer, featuring a fully reunited 2 Live Crew and support from DJ…
DMX’s first two records, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, were released in 1998, the same year Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google. But if you ask the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” rapper to Google Google on a laptop, his…
If we’ve learned anything from 30 Rock, it’s that product integration is the future of successful American capitalism. This is a lesson that’s been wholeheartedly embraced by the modern rap community. So obviously, when DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne get together, it’s all about pushing daddy Birdman’s GTVodka — the…
Where local, state, and federal funding of the arts falls short, non-profits like the Knight Foundation are there to step in and help creative folks fully realize their dreams and influence society. Yesterday, as part of the Knight Arts Challenge, the Knight Foundation divvied up $2.8 million to fund 34…
Jahfe is the greatest reggae band in South Florida. When the group’s in show mode, it gigs about 17 nights a month at venues throughout the tri-county area. The crew also tours internationally, playing some of the biggest festivals around the world. And Jahfe takes the sound of Miami everywhere…
Breezy’s back! After about a week without degradation and demoralization at the rate of 140 characters or less per insult, Chris Brown has reactivated his Twitter account. And he’s on the hunt for a new woman to textually batter. Brown originally fled Twitter on November 25 after promising to “shit”…
It doesn’t matter who you are today so long as you never forget who you were back in the day. And in Crossfade’s case, that was a horny 14-year-old chamaco trying to dry-hump a fine Cubanita at Hot Wheels to the sounds of DJ Laz-produced Miami bass while her abuelita…
He’s known as Mr. 305, Mr. Worldwide, and Dat Lil Chico … But a diva, he is not. However, Pitbull is teaming up with VH1 Divas to help raise money for the network’s Save the Music Foundation, as well as pay tribute to two of music’s biggest deceased divas, Whitney…
Pharrell wants to move. But he’s got to sell his massive panty-dropper in Brickell before he can skate on out of here. It’s a rather dope crib with all the stylish touches that you’d expect from a music mogul with one name. Complete with luscious vistas, high-rise perspectives, chic modern…
Croatia. It’s not the first place that comes to mind when you think European vacation, but it does offer beautiful Mediterranean beaches and old-world romance. Oh, and it’s the exclusive home of Ultra Europe for the next five years. Yes, the “largest party on planet Earth” is nesting on the…
“Pink” may be Steven Tyler’s “fav-o-rite co-lor, but the jury’s still out on whether he’s down with brown (skin). Current American Idol judge Nicki Minaj thinks that the former Idol judge and Aerosmith frontman is a racist for assuming that she’d send Bob Dylan “to the cornfield” if he were…
Who’s the motherfuckin’ Bawse? To Crossfade, it’s always been Rick Ross (government name William Leonard Roberts II), the 300-pound football-lineman-turned-corrections-officer-turned-street-rapper-turned-Maybach-mogul. He taught us to play 4-3 formation. He always emphasized the importance of hustlin’, even while earning $22,913.54 per year from the Florida Department of Corrections. And he showed us…
The Downtown Miami scene is known for its burgeoning art district and hip club scene, but not so much for luxury bottle service. That’s usually relegated to SoBe. But two new club owners are hoping to lure some of those big spenders across the bridge while also giving the art…
