Live: Diesel U:Music Miami (Santigold Lives!)
- story Felipe Delerme
- photo Serge Alexander
It’s been about two years since we put Santigold on the cover of F51, but since she played Studio B for the issue’s release party she’s been harder to find than someone willing to love us for us, and not just because we can score them tickets to Wild Yaks shows. Sure, Santi put on for her city on Jiggaman’s “Brooklyn (We Go Hard)” and even beefed up Major Lazer’s “Hold The Line” but then the videos for both were just balmy cartoons. This past Tuesday, however, we witnessed Santi in all her leopard print/white short set glory, along with Kid Cudi, Jemina Pearl, DJ Mom Jeans and a brain-scrambling noise dance troupe called the Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! at Diesel’s U:Music Miami stop. Though both Cudi and Jemina have promising debut albums to their credit, it was Santi (and a pair of lithe dancers) who reminded us how wrong we’ve been to have neglected Santogold in recent months. We also found out that she’s been training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with Lupe Fiasco and a bunch of other people for charity, and by the time the people were rushing the stage to wild out to Momjeans closing out on the wheels, we were swooning again just like the first time we heard “Creator.”
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posted on Nov 20, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS, OTHER tags Diesel U:Music, DJ Momjeans, Jemina Pearl, Kid Cudi, Miami, Santigold, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!
Freeload: Akon, Ace Hood, Trick Daddy, Boosie, Lil Wayne, Plies & Rick Ross, “Out Here Grindin’”
- story THE FADER
We had a mental debate with ourselves over whether or not to post this, but then we decided we should because we’ve never been ones to keep Akon from the people. At this point, DJ Khaled has almost single handedly resurrected the large posse cut, overdone it and then destroyed it. BUT! Like clockwork, as we’re approaching summer he’s getting ready to drop another album that will probably make us continue to envision Miami as one huge production line of smiling rappers stacking money from a conveyor belt on a yacht. Also in this vision DJ Khaled would be the foreman of the whole operation and he’d be a really unfair boss but as long as you were getting money he’d be cool.
Download: Akon, Ace Hood, Trick Daddy, Boosie, Lil Wayne, Plies & Rick Ross, “Out Here Grindin’”
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posted on May 8, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags a million guys, Ace Hood, Akon, Boosie, freeload, hip hop, Lil Wayne, Miami, money, Plies, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy
Photo: MLK Day Parade
- story THE FADER
Each year on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, every DJ in Miami brings his and her soundsystem to Liberty City, a neighborhood on the northwestern edge of town, to battle for supremacy. We sent photographer Oscar Hidalgo along with Walshy Killa of Black Chiney Soundsystem to document the scene.
