What are the perks of life as a has-been Bad Boy? Well, there’s continuing to cruise atop Forbes’ “Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists” with personal riches exceeding $580 million. And then there’s flashing that cash and guzzling unlimited Cîroc while sucking face with freshly single Sports Illustrated swimsuit booberstar Kate Upton in…
She demanded answers. And she got them. And she’s still not satisfied. Pissed about “the highly publicized trip by U.S. musicians Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (Beyoncé) and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) to Cuba,” South Floridian member of the U.S. Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) bashed the Carters for spending all them tourist dollas in…
When you’re the Carters on vacay in Cuba …. You’ve gotta expect to get slammed by South Florida’s exilio Cubanos. Even if you dress like Maya Angelou and her bagboy on a humanitarian mission circa ’64. So it was probably no surprise to Jay-Z and Beyonce when Republican politicos Ileana…
What a “Good Feeling”… You’re so deep in the “Sweet Spot” and so loaded with “Sugar” that dropping approximately $2,250,000 on a ride like the Bugatti Veyron ain’t no thang. But who’s even gonna “Let It Roll” unless it’s “100% Gold”? See also: -Flo Rida Scores the Cover of Miami…
Rick Ross insists the words spit on “U.O.E.N.O.” (“Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it”) don’t have anything at all to do with drugging a woman till she passes out so he can have…
Nudie bar regulars on NE 11th Street are weeping. Because, as the Miami Herald notes, downtown’s Goldrush strip club has closed. Just a couple of weeks ago, according to a police report, the joint was robbed of $42,480 in a safe heist that “the manager believes … to be committed…
He don’t belong to your motherfuckin’ “Clique.” Despite the fact that Marco Rubio’s got the Kanye, Big Sean, and Jay-Z collabo track looping through his Spotify playlist (not to mention Tupac’s “Changes,” Flo Rida’s “Good Feeling,” and Pitbull’s “Bon Bon”), it’s not like the Florida junior senator’s some sort of…
The Carters were officially OK-ed to vacay in Castro’s Cuba. According to “a source familiar with the itinerary,” Jay-Z and Beyonce’s controversial fifth-anniversary trip to the island, Reuters reports, was fully approved and licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department as a “people-to-people” cultural visit. UPDATE Marco Rubio says Jay-Z and…
“In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin writes on the record shop’s blog. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the Miami Beach Convention Center site. “South Beach ACE wants to preserve the Fillmore Miami Beach and make it better,” Reskin…
As supercouple Jay-Z and Beyoncé prep for World Humanitarian Day (“I’m doing something good,” Mrs. Carter tweets, “somewhere, for someone else. Join me!”), they’re also getting slammed by South Floridian members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart for helping to “fund the machinery of oppression.” How exactly? Spending all…
There are few things manlier — and in a woman’s case, womanlier — than stepping out of “the closet” and letting the world know you’re gay. And you’d be an asshole not to respect someone with that kind of courage. But you’d be an even bigger culo to issue a…
“For me,” Ricochet mastermind Alan Roth tells Crossfade, “the nightlife business has been an incredible ride. “What I’ve been able to see and do and the life it’s given me, I’m grateful,” he says. “I’ve been able to buy the houses that I own because of nightlife.” But now he’s…
“This Spring is your chance to witness the legend himself.” That’s the official hype for DJ Shadow’s All Basses Covered 2013 tour, a 15-city U.S. trek that’s set to snub Miami (and Mansion Nightclub), where the Cali selektor was kicked off the decks for being “too future.” “As opposed to…
Sitting in a car with two unidentified men near NW 152nd Street and Sixth Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Kenneth “Nu Money” Casilla was murdered. According to Miami-Dade Police Department (via NY1), the Brooklyn-bred, Miami-based rapper and Rich Mafia crew member was shot and killed at…
“It is true,” longtime downtown Miami don Louis Puig admitted last month. “I sold Club Space.” Writing in his semi-annual “tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM,” Puig also confirmed that Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 would be his last with the NE 11th Street party institution. But the ex-owner…
Usually when C. Breezy visits a morning talk show for a lil’ chit-chat about domestic violence, all the windows get smashed. This morning, though, an uncharacteristically sedate Chris Brown visited with NBC’s Matt Lauer on the set of the Today Show to discuss a new single, “the Quincy Jones approach,”…
We know Chris Brown can dance, and we know he’s moody, but now we can say without a doubt that he’s a “true artist.” Not only is he gifted in the realm of hip-shaking and heart-breaking, he can really strut his stuff with a spray can. He came down to…
The promoters and DJs of SAFE Miami have been providing the soundtrack for the drunken shenanigans that go down at the Electric Pickle and other 305 clubs since 2007. Having played a pivotal role in Miami’s music scene for nearly six years, SAFE is the subject of a new mini-documentary…
We here at Crossfade are still praying to the gods of robot music for a miraculous Daft Punk cameo at Ultra Music Festival 2013. But as YouTube user Deniz Korkmaz just ecstastically commented via UMFTV: “OMFG SLASHHH.” Of course, not everybody’s superstoked about the former Guns N’ Roses axe slinger…
It’s been less than a week since Lil Wayne was reported to be dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites. And it’s been about a month since he was the human target of a Miami-Dade County-wide “Fuck Wayne” campaign for beefing with the Miami Heat and snarling: “Fuck LeBron!…
Mr. Moonlight’s been caught. Two weeks ago, Peter Murphy announced a tour “celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus,” for which he will be traveling to Miami’s Grand Central, as well as 51 other North American and European cities. Over the weekend, though, he was cruising through Glendale, California, in his Subaru…
Lil Wayne is alive. Despite reports from TMZ last week, claiming he was dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites, the YMCMB rapper has apparently been discharged from the intensive-care unit at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. His six-day stay in the hospital and ICU was allegedly caused by a…
