Partying with Babes and Electro Dudes at the Gold Rush Strip Club

Κείμενο Joshua Rauner and Emerson Rosenthal

29.3.13

Zed's Dead

"You want me to suck your dick? Thats $80," she mumbled over her shoulder, a foot and a half taller than me, drawing me toward the Champagne Room's ATM. I looked up into the forced sparkles of dual diamond dimple piercings and shook my head no. "Well, how much money you got?"

For three years now, Miami-born creative collective the Overthrow has thrown the unofficial Winter Music Conference closing party at the Gold Rush strip club, in the heart of downtown Miami. Dreamed up as the underground answer to more mainstream industry dinners and send-offs, Hard 2 Leave has become a fixture of the WMC, with artists, delegates, and fans all scheduling their flights a day later in order to spend what money they've made, or what little they have left, on the bevy of butts. It's basically the best party ever.

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This year saw the biggest turnout yet, with back-to-back performances by Zeds Dead, A-Trak, Brodinski, and RL Grime almost upstaging the veritable army of strippers finger-fucking each other for ones.

"You got any more money?" she asked, when our second song was through.

"No," I said, opening my wallet truthfully. "But it was fun, though," I offered up as consolation.

"For you maybe," she mumbled, and disappeared into the crowd.

Special thanks to the Overthrow, Gold Rush, the Black Banditz, and Lastnightsparty.