It’s a battle of bawses. Last month, sneaker mob Reebok killed its endorsement deal with Maybach Music Group honcho and rapper Rick Ross in the wake of his “U.O.E.N.O.” rape lyrics scandal. “Reebok holds our partners to a high standard,” the athletic shoe hustlers stated, “and we expect them to…
Lil Wayne is still alive. Last month, reports of Weezy’s imminent death started flying ’round the internet after TMZ inaccurately announced that a sizzurp-binge week’s worth of seizures had left the rapper “on life support, awaiting last rites.” Turned out, Wayne survived. He finished a new album. He even announced…
One day, you’re a young artist struggling to find yourself in a strict Christian household. But then, only 15 months later, you’ve moved out, released your first EP, and scored a co-sign from Pharrell who tweets that you’re “the future!” Life is strange that way. Just ask 20-year-old Austin Paul,…
“Retired marimbero” and Miami New Times columnist Pepe Billete doesn’t know many specifics about the Battle of Puebla, Mexico’s victorious May 5 mêlée against France during the Franco-Mexican War in 1862. However, that isn’t stopping the frisky felt puppet from hosting tremenda fiesta to commemorate the occasion with Nadastrom, Craze,…
King David. In the summer of 1992, we here at Miami New Times wrote: “If the nightcrawlers of South Beach were to appoint a DJ King, they would most likely crown David Padilla.” And a decade later, he was still reigning over the Miami dance scene, “attract[ing] more than 2,000…
Over the last few years, the so-called “New Miami” hip-hop scene has started to thrive, with artists J. Nics, Lil Fway Champ, Flight School Preps, Jigg, and 24-year-old Phresh James leading the charge. A couple weeks ago, though, the scene seemed to take a big blow, when Phresh took to…
There was so much rumba y baile going on last night at the Billboard Latin Music Awards that the Bank United Center almost erupted with all that Latin steam. And if you were watching the Miami Heat scorch the Milwaukee Bucks last night, chances are you missed lo caliente del…
The Electric Pickle lives. After a whole month of Pickle parties were moved to other downtown clubs in the wake of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week (and some code compliance issues), regulars and casual clubbers alike started speculating about the Midtown party spot’s closure or relocation. But when…
If all y’all follow Bad Girl RiRi on Instagram, you already know she loves the weed, the green, and the big booties. So it’s no surprise that Rihanna got down with the Magic City’s finest smoke, cash money, and fat asses after her 4/20 show in SoFla. Just check the…
The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. “In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the…
Tuesday morning around 9:35 a.m., Wilbrent Bain Jr., the brother of local rap legend Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor), was shot and killed in Northwest Miami-Dade near 91st Street after a dispute with a friend devolved into gunshots. His street name was “Goonkie.” He’d survived another shooting in 2008. And…
Oh, Radio broke your heart. Today, everyone’s favorite “bi-polar pop band from Hialeah” announced that “the time is right to end our beloved project.” After four years and two albums, this New Times reader’s pick for Best Band of 2009 is calling it quits. And the only consolation: “We do…
It is a dark day for booty- and bottle-poppin’ EBT welfare ballers in the FLA. Following a Thursday vote in the Florida house of representatives, Electronic Benefit Transfer cards are now prohibited “from being accepted in certain locations” like the strip club “or for certain activities” like buying booze. Sponsored…
If you’re a regular on Miami’s dance music scene, then you’ve probably caught Induce (AKA Ryan Smith) spinning records at any number of local hotspots over the years. Or maybe you remember him as half of DJ-production duos Midnight Moroders with Danny Daze and Casual Sax with Sven Barth. In…
It’s finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y’all Miami music lovers. Whether you’re looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there’s the perfect…
The Prez and Hova “got a little bond there.” But Obama insists he didn’t help his pals, Jay-Z and Beyonce (AKA The Carters), secure clearance from the Treasury Department for their fifth anniversary vacay to Cuba. “This is not something the White House was involved with,” POTUS tells the Today…
“Holy fucking shit … Is this Meshuggah?” That’s how Carol City creep rapper SpaceGhostPurrp reacts when Canadian weirdo interviewer Nardwuar bestows a fine slab of Swedish metal upon him. Why? Because SGP is the rare hip-hopper with a deep and abiding fanaticism for dark and heavy death-obsessed rock. “This shit…
Skeptics predict the local music shop is going extinct like the penny arcade. But for the last six years, so-called “independently owned, stand-alone brick-and-mortar retailers” around the U.S. (and the world) have been banding together under the Record Store Day banner to, paraphrasing the immortal Beastie Boys, fight for their…
Problem Kids are Miami Cubans with a message for Jay-Z about his trip to Cuba. Their response to his “Open Letter” is a new track called “Useful Idiot.” “He looks like he’s praising the Castro regime, and we wanna give him a history lesson,” say MCs Mario Obregon and Christian…
Senator Marco Rubio suggested that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have “no interest in Cuban People’s freedom.” And U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart said that the pair’s recent visit “funds the machinery of oppression.” Pero, their constituent, Miami native, and Cuban-American rapper Pitbull thinks that the Carters’ Treasury-approved “educational exchange…
The Bawse says: “I apologize.” And this time, he means it. After a couple of weak attempts at defending his molly sex assault verse on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.” (condescendingly calling “woman … the most precious gift known to man” and then cringe-worthily tweeting “”I dont condone rape. #BOSS”), William Roberts (AKA…
Maybe the sneaker mob over at Reebok was just waiting for one of Rick Ross’s homies to fire the first shot. So when Rocko announced that he was planning to strike the Bawse’s rape lyrics (“Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and…
