We recently had a chance to speak with our new pal Ryan Driller and get his take on a couple of non-musical subjects, but in the course of the interview, when we asked him who his favorite musicians were, his musical choices ranged from King Harvest to Tchaikovsky, with Pitbull and Ludacris in the midst.

He even confessed to a guilty pleasure that he'll stand by even in public a forum such as this. We think he's just a fun and funny guy, but feel free to imagine him hard at work, while you dig these tunes. And by work, we mean, of course, working in the garden or drilling under your sink.

The "Driller" in Driller is a multifaceted machine!

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Back in 2006, the Miami Heat's crowd won the team the championship. The Heat were down two games to zero against the Dallas Mavericks, when the series came to Miami.

The Mavericks were up by thirteen in the fourth quarter when Dwyane Wade went bananas and gave the Heat the lead, but Dallas' sharpshooting forward Dirk Nowitzki had a chance to tie the game with two free throws when the crowd stepped in. "Da-vid Hassel-hoff." They chanted. "Da-vid Hassel-hoff!" Nowitzki made the fatal mistake of admitting in an interview that his free throw shooting ritual consisted of singing a David Hasselhoff song, and the Miami crowd teased him enough that he missed and the Heat won.

The next two games in Miami, every time Nowitzki stepped to the line he had to hear about his questionable musical taste. "Da-vid Hassel-hoff! Da-vid Hassel-hoff!" Nowitzki seemed like a nice enough guy and an honorable enough opponent, so I almost felt bad that a chant rattled him so much.

The Chicago Bulls Joakim Noah is another kind of cat.

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How do you make a girl "big O" without even touching her? According to DJ Laz, by giving her diamonds.

Not only has Laz made timeless contributions to Miami Bass and Booty Music, he's also willing to share the wisdom on how 'it ain't trickin' if you got it' with listeners to his morning show on DJ 106.7 FM and New Times music editor Liz Tracy.

We caught up with Laz at his new studio and learned about the powers of bling, Taco King, and the new majority.

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A sound portrait of the artist.

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The Jacuzzi Boys have been making a ruckus with their unhinged, grime-coated, psych-tinged, all Florida rock for years now. But when the trio of fun-seeking rocker guys aren't recording, touring abroad, or playing out around town, you can usually find them spinning records at some of our favorite local spots.

This past summer, the Jacuzzis had a successful stint playing and promoting a Saturday night dance party, Tusk, at the Garrett, upstairs in Miami's Grand Central. More recently, they've enjoyed spinning their favorite songs late into the night at one of Wynwood's newest haunts, Gramps Bar.

Though the three are decidedly Miami, Fort Lauderdale has them all April 20th when they'll be DJing at Radio-Active's Record Store Day 2013 and playing the RSD2013 after-party at Revolution Live's and Subculture's Block x Blog music festival. To give us an idea of what records the Jacuzzis like to throw on the ones and twos, bassist Danny Gonzalez took us on a video-guided tour of his personal collection of vinyl, covering all the essentials from best make-out song to the best record to cry to.

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Azealia Banks clearly worked the shit out of the second weekend of Ultra 2013 in her newly released video for "No Problems." Originally a diss track aimed at Angel Haze, the song takes on new meaning sung amidst the empty wide eyes, glowing ensembles, and sweaty pits of UMF partiers.

Banks is clearly having a ball in this footage. She cakes a silly girl in an UMF inner tube from Steve Aoki's stage, painting her lips with the leftover grub. She swings her arms around and sings into a crystal-studded cell phone, silhouetted against Biscayne Bay. And to close out the video, with her arm around Diplo, he refers to himself as a "big white star."

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While the bass shook the pool water at the Raleigh Hotel, booties in short shorts bounced up and down, and so did Steve Aoki, who looked like a little kid at Christmas behind the decks. His Dim Mak label's 2013 Winter Music Conference day party brought out not only those on his label, but OGs like Benny Benassi and Afrojack who made cameos during Aoki's set.

Amidst the EDM mayhem, we sat down with Dim Mak's hot Canadian foursome Azari & III for a seriously goofy talk. Right after Azari's Alixander III showed us how GHB-enhanced dancing looks, Aoki crashed the interview. We discussed opening a cake company, Diplo in a hamster ball, and someone, not gonna say whom, showed us some Speedo ass.

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MTV News' online program RapFix streams live, so when Carol City rapper and guest Denzel Curry dropped an N-bomb, host Sway Calloway seemed like he was going to pee-pee in his pants.

But who can blame Curry for being casual and slipping up? He's still in high school and already appearing on the "Get in the Game" segment of the show. And with Waka Flocka Flame, who offered his thoughts on "Threatz," Curry's first music video, and even a possible collaboration.

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With Lil Wayne just out of the hospital after a series of seizures and a Codeine relapse, no one's fronting about the role drugs play in the world of hip-hop. The EDM scene is also deep into intoxicants, and no one's going to tell us otherwise.

We spoke with rapper SpaceGhostPurrp after his hip-hop performance at the massive Ultra Music Festival about Molly, sizzurp, changing trends in rap, and Lil Wayne.

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SpaceGhostPurrp runnin' the live stage at Ultra Music Festival 2013.

SpaceGhostPurrp can be a prickly dude. He's so young, smart, and deep. And all that online attitude. You can't help but envy him his complexity and talent and resent what sometimes comes off as a sense of entitlement.

But when we met up with the Carol City rapper at Ultra Music Festival where he performed a Sunday noon set, we definitely didn't meet a guy who thinks the world owes him something. It's hard to get onstage, at noon at a rave, and take it all very seriously and professionally, but he did.

Purrp seemed shy or hesitant when we started bombarding him with questions about the sexual attractiveness of Scooby-Doo characters, his tattoos, and April Fool's Day, which is his birthday, also known as Purrp Day to those of the Raider Klan.

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