2011 Best Of The305

Cris Cab 2011 Artist Of The Year Cris Cab is young and has his whole life ahead of him. After years of honing his craft, at 17 years old (he’s 18 now), he finally pulled the interest of one Mr. Pharrell Williams. Since his official debut about a year ago at the Read More

Betty Wright and The Roots with “The Movie” 2011 Album Of The Year by a Major Technically, she’s independent, but honestly, Betty Wright falls along of the lines of being a major artist. I mean just look at her discography. Coming out in November, The Movie was Read More

Steven A Clark with “Stripes” 2011 Album Of The Year by an Independent Stripes was an incredible album by such a talented singer. Steven A Clark started popping up on the scene within the last year or so and his sound is very unknown, yet very familiar. The lead Read More

Pitbull with “Give Me Everything” featuring Ne-Yo and Nayer 2011 Single Of The Year Pitbull has had an incredible year. His best year ever actually. Endorsements, award shows, big budget video shoots and tours. He did it all this year. And the anchor to it all was Read More

Dangerflow and Ketchy Shuby (2-Way Tie) 2011 Band Of The Year It really came down to these two bands for me and I felt like each of them deserved some kind of recognition in their own right. So naming them both “Band Of The Year” seemed only right. Dangerflow had a Read More

Mr. Familiar 2011 Producer(s) Of The Year Mr. Familiar is not a guy. Its actually a three man production group based in Miami (and New York). Members include Steven Sanz, Christopher Thomas & Marcello “Square” Grasso. They have quite a few notable production Read More

D. Cash 2011 Breakout Artist Of The Year D. Cash has been on his way up for the last couple years and after releasing freestyles and various singles, 2011 was the year he finally released his long awaited 2 Real 4 Radio project. 2011 was the year D. Cash took his craft serious Read More

Ace Hood with “Hustle Hard” featuring Rick Ross and Lil Wayne 2011 Remix Of The Year When Ace Hood’s original “Hustle Hard” came out and took off, everybody was hooked. But then when Ace recruited Ross and Wayne to jump on the remix, the song took Read More

Mayday with “Highs & Lows” featuring Ace Hood 2011 Video Of The Year Back when this video came out in March, I called it “pretty fucking amazing”. And well, 8-9 months later and it still is. Mayday teamed up with fellow South Floridian Ace Hood to go Read More

DJ Affect 2011 DJ Of The Year If you’ve been to a hip-hop or urban party on the beach, then most likely, DJ Affect was probably spinning there or was spinning there at some point. DJ Affect is one of South Beach’s top DJs and has been for quite a few years now. Read More

Maybach Music Group 2011 Record Label Of The Year Look man, if you hate on this then I’m not sure what to tell you. 2011 was the year of Maybach Music Group. After getting that distribution deal with Warner Bros., it was no stopping MMG. Undoubtedly, the hardest working set Read More

Rico Love 2011 Songwriter Of The Year Rico Love hasn’t only had an incredible 2011 – he’s had a amazing 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005. But Twenty-Eleven was probably his best year yet because in the midst of writing, its the year that Rico was able to Read More

Photo Source: @eyenhomme / @la_nightscene SpaceGhostPurrp 2011 Rookie Of The Year It kinda sucks that it took it an out of town publication like L.A. Weekly to put a lot of people in Miami and beyond on to SpaceGhostPurrp. The young Carol City native took the internet by storm Read More

Gunplay – Rollin’ (featuring Waka Flocka Flame) 2011 Street Single Of The Year Gunplay is like Maybach Music’s hidden gem. He’s been there for years ready to unleash and 2011 was finally the year he was able to destroy the streets and clubs with this Read More

Wrekonize with “Look At Me Now” 2011 Freestyle Of The Year Everybody and their mother tried to frestyle over this beat. Keyword: “tried”. But nobody could really do it better than Mayday’s own Wrekonize. Coming out of a short freestyle retirement, Read More

Billy Blue with Blumanatti 2011 Mixtape Of The Year by a Major I got to hear an early version of Blumanatti one day while stopping by Shoe Gallery and I was immediately hooked. Then a couple months later, the final version comes out and literally set the streets on fire. The Read More