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​Quick, grab our tongue.

This "Niggas in Paris" video is so "cray" that we're ignoring the Epilepsy Action warning and risking a seizure just to get through it.

The Jay-Z and Kanye West's globetrotting banger was featured on the duo's collaborative Watch the Throne record. Together, Ye and Jay performed "Niggas in Paris" well over 100 times on their 33-date, 26-city tour.

They did a five-peat of "Niggas" in Miami. And on December 13, 2011, in front of a sold-out crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, they filmed a video.
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M.I.A. playing second fiddle to Madonna.

​Today, the world got an overdose of Maya Arulpragasam, AKA M.I.A., who released not one, but two music videos. The first was a featured guest spot on Madonna's "Hollaback Girl" "Give Me All Your Luvin'".

Tween SMS misspellings aside, Madonna's track is basically an ode to herself and how everyone loves her. So unfortunately, M.I.A. is relegated to playing the cheerleader role with a 10-second rap toward the end of the song.

But with all the notoriety that this guest spot is sure to bring her, we're pretty sure Interscope is looking to finally turn M.I.A. into a star.
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​Nicki Minaj is too hardcore for BET.

Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television is refusing to air the rapper's "Stupid Hoe" music video. Evidently, naked Barbie dolls and fishnets are far too risque for the network.

We've embedded the 210-second, Hype Williams-directed video below. You'll notice the most offensive element of "Stupid Hoe" is Williams' signature seizure-inducing edits. Well, and the fact that some animals were used as video hoes.
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​Whenever O'Grime's L.Rey and Nikolais Javan ain't too busy playing video games and enjoying domework, they're cranking out absurd and amazing rap vids dedicated to stuff like strippers ass-smashing Nachos Supreme, the handsomeness of Miami Heat center Udonis Haslem, or "#Planking On Yo Bitch."

And their latest shot of audio-visual swaggishness? A 145-second clip created in honor of "Kush Smoke & Pussy."
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Modeselektor

​A while back, we talked to Otto Von Schirach about his recent collaboration with German DJ-producer duo Modeselektor. He called the collabo track a "banger," which is a spot-on description of the glitchy, pulsating beat that dominates "Evil Twin," a song off 2011's Monkeytown.

In its dark and twisted sort of way, "Twin" is pure techno. It's the kind of cut that crushes entire crowds at Winter Music Conference or the Electric Pickle.

And while Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary's production are worthy of praise, Otto's ominous vocals really propel the track to the absolute limit of its particular chaotic trajectory.
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This dude has seen it all.

​For 31 years, the numerous, ever-increasing stages at gritty, surreal, and spectacular Churchill's Pub in Little Haiti has been where Miami rock music goes to define itself.

A quick scan of the assorted press and awards (including endless clippings for Miami New Times Best Rock Club nods) reveal only a fraction of the names -- big and small, spanning genres, scenes and the most disparate social circles -- that have considered the bar their music's home base.

Churchill's has served as ground zero for many of South Florida's best and/or biggest musical exports. And in the wake of the still-blooming Jacuzzi Boys, the club has a new wave of rock music on its hands.

Last Friday, the bar hosted a local showcase that provided attendees a crash course in what South Florida rock has in store for 2012.
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Ice Cream's Thomas Kennedy likes to smile.

​Just 13 days ago, Ice Cream's Thomas Kennedy, Justin Anthony Rivers, Roy Neil Hunter, Joel Gutman, and Alex Lashley dumped us like an old girlfriend with herpes, released their new album Good (which is "really good"), and announced plans to flee Miami for New York City.

But before Thomas, Justin, Roy, Joel, and Alex could even pack their worldly possessions into pillow cases, something exceedingly strange happened. "Some men came to our warehouse and filmed us. Very nice men," the Ice Cream crew explains via Facebook. "Somehow the sodomy did not make it into the final cut."

Of course, these men are the sonically twisted fiends over at Audio Junkie, a self-described video "journal that captures a culture immersed and obsessed with audio." And the sodomy was (probably) a joke.

Either way, enjoy this (heavily censored?) document of Audio Junkie's (highly inappropriate?) interview session with Ice Cream.
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​David Lee Roth isn't so sad and lonely anymore. The 57-year-old "gigolo" has reunited with his Dutch-brothers-from-another-mother -- Eddie and Alex -- and he's gearing up for Van Halen's North American tour, hitting the BankAtlantic Center on April 10. The only problem: It's not 1978.

Shortly after midnight last night, Van Halen debuted the video for "Tattoo," the group's first single off A Different Kind of Truth. Shot on location at the Roxy in Los Angeles, the black-and-white video is a depressing reminder that musicians (a) age terribly and (b) have a real hard time letting go.

Check out our incredibly detailed breakdown of "Tattoo" after the cut.
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The Blood boys rompin' at 30 Rock.

​We here at Crossfade provided plenty of advance warning that West Palm fuzz rockers Surfer Blood would be jamming out to "Miranda," a single off last year's Tarot Classics EP, during last night's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

But maybe you came down with a real nasty case of the Mondays, passed out at 12:34 a.m. on your fave J.P. Pitts poster, and totally forgot to pre-program your DVR for the Blood boys' late-night romp around studio 6B at 30 Rock?

That's cool ... 'Cause Crossfade (and the internet) have got all y'all Surfer Blood superfans covered. Just check the cut for a video of "Miranda" on Fallon.
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​"Squelch TV, man. It's better than Saturday Night Live."

Though the source (Frank "Rat Bastard" Falestra, prolific producer, musician, and, yes, sole proprietor of Squelch TV) is arguably biased, the assertion is, nevertheless, pretty convincing.

Over the weekend, Falestra hosted the latest edition of the series, which has featured Miami-based rock 'n roll (Snakehole, Holly Hunt) and avant-weirdo shit (Kenny Millions, Xela Zaid) alike, streaming live from his apartment-slash-studio in South Beach.
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