How Miami rap made overindulgence the new baseline
As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list.
It is, perhaps, the most Miami thing ever that the sound upon which its entire hip-hop scene was built was an accident born of cocaine and strippers in the '80s. In the VIP booth, loose off several bottles of champagne and high as a horse, producer lost track of time in the company of a beautiful woman. He invited her to the studio at Sunnyview Records, where he was mixing a record called "Commin' in Fresh." He was playing with the 808 bass settings to record on the tape, but got caught up in her dancing. They left the room with the tape running. Afterward, prepping the record for the mastering lab, he turned the music down low because he was too "fogged out" to
