“I’m sweating like crazy, actually,” says Dutch producer Palmbomen, AKA Kai Hugo, from his mother’s home in the south of Holland. “Especially when I play live. When I play live, I’m really soaking wet. It just heals me, always, when I play. The same when I DJ. Yeah, I like…
DJ Laz scratches a record with his teeth as a stage full of booty dancers pop and roll to the endless cheers of a wild, neon audience lost in the ecstasy of bass. Da Pimp Wit Da Limp looks up, flashes his trademark grin, reaches behind his own back, and…
Rocking “guayabera shirts and bandanas,” Jay-Z may have “turned Havana to Atlanta” momentarily this past May when he and Beyoncé visited Cuba. But if Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee get their way, the couple’s first Treasury Department-approved cultural exchange trip to the Caribbean island may have also been their…
Believing a rapper who says “I’m a motherfuckin’ billionaire” is just as ridiculous as believing a politician who says “I will be honest, accountable, and faithful to my wife.” Still, in pursuit of some LOLs, Bloomberg Businessweek (a publication that’s owned, coincidentally, by billionaire and politician Michael Bloomberg) has assembled…
The brothers behind the hushed, soulful music of Los Angeles’ Inc., singer/guitarist Andrew Aged and bassist/vocalist Daniel Aged, took up their respective instruments in the late ’90s. At the time, Andrew was 12 and Daniel 11. Playing music together, they say, actually helped them open up to each other as…
Praise the Fontainebleau Miami Beach for saving Labor Day. Had the oceanfront resort not booked two of the summer’s biggest acts for its BleauLive performance series, you’d probably be stuck watching another Jerry Lewis-less MDA telethon. Vive la Lewis, as the French say! Thankfully, Pharrell and Robin Thicke have been…
Michael Jordan’s head rested on Scottie Pippen’s chest with his arms around Pippen’s torso and Pippen’s right arm over Jordan’s shoulder as they walked to bench with seconds remaining in game five of the 1997 NBA Finals. A game where Jordan played 44 minutes and scored 39 points after waking…
Those hurricane parties you were planning? The ones consisting of mindless drinking while waiting for the storm to pass? Well, they pretty much died, along with Tropical Storm Chantal itself. Now the question remains: What to do with all that stored-up booze money? Spend it on cheap liquor, mosh pits,…
I slam a 16-ounce can of Mickey’s Fine Malt Liquor, take a big hit off a joint of brown weed, put pen to paper, and write a line. “She got a booty, though/She can’t fit it through the door,” I rap. “Plus, she a stripper now/Working for that booty dough.”…
For having earned multiple platinum records, becoming the first Colombian artist to snag a Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Album, holding the record for Latin Grammy nominations, and being married to a former Miss Colombia, Carlos Vives is a pretty humble guy. “It’s an amazing feeling,” he says, “when we…
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Let’s take a little journey into the mind of the modern woman. Is she up all night to the sun just for good fun? Or is that just what she’ll tell you because she doesn’t want to seem too easy? Trust us, when she’s with her girls and her gay…
Ever been KO’d by a DJ spinning “failed pop” and old-school vinyl tracks? If so, then chances are you’re gonna get a black eye on Thursday nights at the Electric Pickle’s One Two Punch party. “One is the resident DJ, which is me,” explains DJ Benton. “Two are the other…
If you are a ride-or-die 305 fan… Then you already know that LeBron James isn’t just a Miami Heat superstar, two-time NBA Finals MVP, and all-around superhuman athlete. He’s a part-time rapper too. See also: -LeBron Raps, Popping Million Mollies in Five Minutes: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown…
From the weed to the X, from the X to the blow, Pitbull has hustled his Cuban-American dick off to fulfill a prophecy that he rapped about nearly ten years ago on “305 Anthem”: “Mark my words, I’m next to blow.” He was right. El tipo’s proven to be a…
Perhaps your ambitions as a party person are no loftier than gettin’ crunk with all those club mofos in the SoBe VIP. Or maybe you just wanna do the “Banana Pop” with a couple of so-called Hungarian PornoStars. Of course, though, you could always be in the midst a soulful…
The man born Brian Warner is actually rather shy. But give him some color contacts, a latex body suit, and a crowd of thousands and that skinny, pasty, quiet Florida boy transforms into Marilyn Manson, one of the most shocking musical entertainers of all time. After nearly two decades of…
Freddy Madball = New York City hardcore. But did you know he came up in Miramar on salsa duro, Grandmaster Flash, and Miami bass? From singing with Agnostic Front at age 7 to starting his own band, Freddy Cricien and his Madball cohorts have turned the world into one massive…
Ask the underground electronic dance music heads who frequent downtown Miami and Wynwood hotpots why they avoid South Beach nightlife, and they’ll invariably say it’s at least in part because of VIP culture and the way bottle-service customers dictate musical programming at SoBe nightclubs. The most controversial examples in recent…
King Colosus rose from the streets of Carol City to malls all over America when he signed a groundbreaking independent distribution deal in 2008 for his solo rap debut. But before his album was ever shrink-wrapped and stocked on the shelves at Best Buy, his lyrics echoed through the rec…
“Foreplay,” The Weeknd tweets, “has come to an end.” A few days ago, the future R&B seducer revealed that his sophomore album, Kiss Land, the follow-up to the House of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes of Silence mixtape trilogy, will be released at the end of “summertime, baby.” And now he’s announced “The Fall,”…
