Kanye West

Five Weirdest Beers at Riverside Market Home Brew Competition

For all you beer connoisseurs out there, or for those who just like to drink a few brews (or, as Kanye West says, "frew brews"), Riverside certainly knows how to put on a show. And by show, we mean a homemade beer brewing contest. Ten teams competed for a panel of judges as well as favoritism for sp ... More >>

Best South Florida Music 2011: Protoman - Beat a Dead Horse 'Til She Resurrects

​County Grind is counting down 2011's best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.Whether you believe that hip-hop is dead or that it's just kicking through its latest rehash, one thing is certain: Hip-hop albums are six feet under the ground. Even Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch th ... More >>

Battle Royal: Jay-Z and Kanye West Take "Watch the Throne" Global to Fend Off the Hip-Hop Hordes

Imagine Sundays

Four Foods (Other than Fishsticks) Kanye West Could Use to Choke a South Park Writer

photo by david_shankbone via flickr​Add assaulting animators with battered whitefish to the list of things you'll find in Kanye West's beautiful dark twisted fantasy.  Back in April 2009, "South Park," an animated series known for its relentless attacks on all things self-important, roasted ... More >>

Black Violin Hits Revolution With Classical Hip-Hop

Gold Digger Baje Fletcher Goes Ahead, Gets Down in SoFla

If you want the rest of Fletcher's secrets, you'll have to dog-ear her paperback.​Her book's called A Gold Digger's Guide. She teaches "apprentices" how to get gifts from men without falling in love. Hell, she wears gold eyeshadow. So while neither Kanye nor I is saying she's a gold digger, t ... More >>

Hip-Hop Isn't Dead, and Here Are the Year's Ten Best Albums

Clubland Confidential

Sample the year's best dance grooves.

But Does Charlie Like Fish Sticks?

In picking the week's best quotes for its "Verbatim" page, Time magazine prizes drama (a quote from the co-pilot killed in the plane crash near Buffalo), candor (Jesse Ventura saying what he'd do with a waterboard and Dick Cheney), and gaffes, especially the kind that reveal more truth than they int ... More >>

A-Trak

Brit Sensation Estelle Opens for John Legend at the Fillmore Miami Beach

Head Spins: DJ Affect

South Florida's busiest head-spinner

Top Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be ... More >>

Q&A With T-Pain, Performing at AAA on Sunday

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

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Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak Excedes Expectations

Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak (Roc-A-Fella)Despite what's been written, Kanye West's new style on his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak -- which incorporates "tribal"-style drum machines and auto-tuned vocals - doesn't sound especially shocking to the ears. Immediately satisfying singles like ... More >>

Kanye West Releases "Heartless" Video

T.I.

Is Kanye Dropping a New Album This Year?

The Game

Kanye West, N.E.R.D. and Wyclef to Perform at the Democratic National Convention

Loving the New Kanye/Weezy Collaboration

Kanye Puts the “Extra” Back in Extraterrestrial

Throwback Tuesdays: Dwele's "Find A Way"

Nick Catchdubs

Last Night: Jay-Z and Friends at American Airlines Arena

The SXSW highlights reel

The Year in Music

Our 2007 listening party with Vanilla Ice, Davy Jones, and Al Franken

Kanye West's Mom Dies at 58

Johnny Cash Wants to Cut You Down

Deadbeats, Unite

A scumbag Broward hip-hop crew readies for its debut

In Praise of Assholes

A critique of Kanye, 50, and the whole hip-hop circus

Kanye Vs. 50 Cent--The Real Story

An Interview with 50 Cent

Common

Finding Forever

Erick and Parrish Makin' Dollars

Check Yo' Reality

Juvenile

Pharrell

In My Mind (Star Trak/Interscope)

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

Jel

Soft Money (Anticon)

Weather or Not

Paradise? Purgatory? In 2005, South Florida music was a little bit of both.

Piano Politics

John Legend pivots between commentator and entertainer

Wild, Wild West

Kanye West weathers the storm

Kanye West

Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella)

Common

Be (Geffen)

God Save the Scene

Sassy Brits, hoochie mamas, and a dude named Beans attempted to invigorate a stagnant year for hip-hop

Kanye West

Best Hip-Hop Artist

Mike West Readers' Choice: Eminem

Kanye West

College Dropout (Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)