Opinion & Commentary

Jay-Z and Eminem top Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake

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From Brooklyn to the Sunshine State, rapper J’lynn Irving, who simply goes by J’lynn, splits his time between New York City and the South Florida suburbs. Three years ago, J’lynn moved to SoFla with his mom and started working on his rap career. Influenced by fellow New Yorkers like Jay-Z,…

Richard Mason, president of South Florida Free Beaches, has a message for you: No sex on the nude beach!”The 78 year old, who helped start the nude beach at the north end of Haulover Park 20 years ago, called to complain about our recent story that said the facility was…

Dude’s already a boss at freestylin’ rhymes. But does Rick Ross have what it take to be America’s next best freestyle skier? Probably not. Nevertheless, you might catch him on a Pennsylvanian ski slope come February when the Teflon Don headlines the MMG and Friends Weekend. Together with Maybach Music’s…

Luther “Luke” Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke declares the best MCs in hip-hop.After listening to the new Jay-Z and Kanye West album, Watch the…

Miami loves boob jobs. And honestly, if we here at Crossfade had our way, each and every Dade County resident — men, women, and all those in between — would own their own perfectly shaped pair of C-cup (or larger) implants. Just imagine what a wonderful world it would be…

Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has a new tormentor. He is Reid Welch, a 57-year-old Coconut Grove resident who eradicates Sarnoff campaign signs from the neighborhood when he is not huffing noxious fumes.”I inhale propane gas to get high, but I am not the least bit nutty,” Welch insists. “I asked…

​Every Friday, Riptide brings you the most eye-catching mugshots taken the previous week (or thereabouts) in Miami-Dade County. Yes, there is some mockery of bad neck tattoos, but also adulation directed at perps who just plain look more badass than we ever will. This is the italicized intro to that…

Welcome to Short Order Show & Tell, where one of us brings a local delicacy to our weekly staff meeting and we all weigh in on its deliciousness.This week, we tried the “No Bull” vegan barbecue short ribs with cranberry quinoa and a vegetable medley from Vegetarian Restaurant by Hakin…

​A Malaysian gambling conglomerate’s plans to convert the Miami Herald headquarters and surrounding properties into a luxury resort casino has prompted one county commissioner to seek more control over redevelopment of the Omni neighborhood.Under a proposal by Sally Heyman, one of the 13 county commissioners would become a member of…

Crossfade’s Google Alerts are incredibly random. This morning, sandwiched between Gloria Estefan and Rick Ross, an alert that read, “Paris Hilton Training to Become Most Powerful House DJ Ever!!!” sent chills down our spine. Evidently, the former sex tape reality vixen is a beat freak, and she’s “pretty tight” with…

The sensitive MC has always been a rare figure in hip-hop. While the early 2000s did see a spike in “politically conscious” backpack rappers like Talib Kweli and Mos Def (both of whom took a page from Common’s socio-empathetic rhymebook), it’s been 99 percent bitches, guns, money, and so on,…

For any kid who grew up in the ’80s, it wasn’t about the content of character. It was about the size of Transformer. After school and Saturday mornings, masses of children spent hour after hour parked in front of turn-knob television screens, adjusting rabbit ears, dying to hear the first…

Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio escaped to Miami