| South Florida has become the place for superstar | | | | Miami vibe. Pitbull, born Armando Christian Perez, |
| Hip-Hop artist. Until recent years, Miami was not looked | | | | created his "Mr. 305" title. Pitbull has even received the |
| to as a place where you would find talented rappers. | | | | key to the city of Miami by Mayor Tomas Regalado. |
| Although it is home to iconic acts like JT Money and | | | | Flo Rida, another artist from Carol City to achieve |
| two Live Crew, it has always been viewed as a city | | | | worldwide success with his musical ability. Flo Rida, |
| which produced "Booty Music". Lately Miami's Hip Hop | | | | comes from the word "Florida" and "flow rider". Back in |
| scene garnered interest and took over the mainstream | | | | the early 2000's he was part of the rap crew The |
| radio. It has reached all over the world and is now | | | | GroundHoggz, led by rap artist 1-Bread. Flo Rida's |
| recognized as a top Hip-Hop talent producing city. | | | | songs have set download records in iTunes, have had |
| Rick Ross has been recognized as one of five of the | | | | him travel the globe, and even performed on the |
| best rap artists in the current state of Hip-Hop. He is | | | | network television show American Idol. |
| also the CEO of Maybach Music Group, which has | | | | DJ Khaled is one of the world's most famous DJs, but |
| extremely talented artists, such as Gunplay and Torch | | | | he's more. On Miami's only Hip-Hop radio station, |
| who are from the Rick's original rap crew "Triple C's" | | | | 99JAMZ, Khaled has his own radio program called |
| which means "Carol City Cartel". Carol City was | | | | "Take Over ". Khaled is also one of the industry's top |
| where Rick Ross grew up and created his popularity. | | | | music producer going under the name Beat Novacane. |
| Ross later created Maybach Music Latino with the | | | | When Khaled isn't making music or conducting his radio |
| support of Miami Underground King to UB of THC. | | | | show he is an artist manager for his company We |
| THC is an acronym for The Hispanic Connection. | | | | The Best Def Jam Music Group. It doesn't stop there. |
| When it comes to Latin Hip-Hop, THC plays a major | | | | DJ Khaled has released several successful albums |
| role as a trendsetting rap group with versitile styles | | | | with a variety of top artists of today and still finds time |
| and bilingual rap lyrics. | | | | to spin the turn-tables at South Beach's most popular |
| Pitbull is yet another Latin rapper that has reached | | | | night-clubs. |
| great feats in his music career. When Pitbull entered | | | | Among the artists above, there are many others who |
| the music industry he was a street-style rap artist and | | | | paved a way and even more who are starting to |
| has now crossed over to the mainstream market of | | | | have a very talented and deserve recognition for the |
| radio making collabrative music with many artists | | | | genre, which has been controlled by New York and |
| across the globe. Pitbull's music is known to be | | | | California. |
| produced either English or Spanish, but always has the | | | | |