Rick Ross Speaks On Album Title

Rick Ross has a thing for gangsters. In fact, his upcoming mixtape’s named after Albert Anastasia and album (Teflon Don) stems from John Gotti’s alias. Ross recently revealed that the moniker was also his former stage name. But despite the praise Gotti’s received (especially in rap songs), he admitted in his final years that he didn’t want those type of fans and blamed society’s downward spiral on “coons and niggers“. But Ross is undeterred. In the final clip below, he explains to Rap Radar the reasoning behind the title.

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  1. teejay says:

    Coons and niggers is rather redundant, isn’t it?

  2. Mack attack says:

    Ross gonna double what triple cs done 1st week!!

  3. E_ says:

    how much does Def Jam pays to y’all to promote dude ?

  4. Can says:

    I don’t see why people aren’t more excited about Teflon Don. Everybody knows how good Ross is at being an actor.

  5. Oj Da Cornball says:

    Do we need an explanation?

    You’re faking fraud who only portrays some of type mob, drug dealer image when you been freaking exposed. End the story.

    the nerve of this fat pig giving us an explanation with his fraud self.

    Don’t come to me with “he makes good music”. This one is about his mob, drug dealing bull-crap.
    Enjoy the album if u like his music .

    SMH

  6. thomas says:

    is Rick Ross the phoniest mothafucka in hip-hop ever? This shit is a disgrace on too many levels

  7. morgan says:

    Ross is a douche but hes pretty fuckin dope

  8. morgan says:

    Ross is a douche but hes pretty fuckin dope

  9. teejay says:

    “I know he has certain feelings about certain things, but that’s aight because i know people who have certain feelings about certain things”

    ^Thank you Rick Ross for that profound insight, you stupid fuck.

  10. koa29 says:

    His former stage name? Doubt it….nigga is annoying but he does kno how to rap..

  11. money mitch says:

    ^
    it is his former stage name he used to go by tephlon da don when he was on an eric sermon epmd compilation like 10 years ago

  12. dajumpoff44 says:

    This site stays promoting the wackest fraud we heard thus far!!Rapradar=Lawse for riding with Rawse!

  13. Nathaniel says:

    lol one of the worst so-called “explanations” …or maybe “justifications” i’ve ever heard. that nigga is ignorant as fuck, an enormous and flagrant fraud, and sickens me. i don’t see how niggas listen to this muthafucka. i really don’t. fuck music, for once. some of y’all can’t see past a hot 16. broaden your vision. word to malcolm x – happy belated.

    annoyed as hell.

  14. mike says:

    dis album iz goona be damn fucking huge

    a crazy progression on his skillz and ish

    > deeper than rap > trilla > port of miami

    maybachs & diamonds on fayyyahh

    hits plus delivery, dope raps

    bawse !!! let’s go !! rawse !

    hustlin’, push it, speedin’, maybach music, mafia music, super high …

  15. Post no billz says:

    John gotti and all the other mobsters hated blacks and hispanics.. Joe galleo was the only mobster to do biz with blacks(nicky barnes etc..)

  16. Nathaniel says:

    everyday i get on this site and see rick ross posts…. and i keep wondering why. y’all niggas must be fake as fuck too. how does it feel?

    “since the fakes been revealed, game got real
    radio been gassin’ niggas, my imposters scream ‘they ill'”
    -ghostface

  17. Drucifer1983 says:

    I never understood the Black communities obsession with the Mafia, the guys who get all the praise)John Gotti, Frank Lacassio, Salvatore Testa, Sammy Gravano, Lucky Luchiano, etc) all hated minorities……….Some of them had rules like “If your gonna sell those drugs, just sell them to the miggers, dont fuck up our families with that poison”………Yet here comes Officer Ricky ready to glorify him

    SMH

    Might as well glorify David Duke and Hitler while your at it, same diffrence

  18. thomas says:

    I don’t care how dope he is. Who gives a fuck about dope when you are complete bullshit. I’ve never even listened to ONE Rick Ross song, because of all the stories I’ve read. I refuse to. Same reason why I wonder why everyone is on Eminem’s dick so much. Dude can RAP but what the fuck is he saying? 95% of the time it’s nonsense. FUCK THAT!

  19. bobby brougham says:

    That was the first I’ve heard of that Gotti quote, but I’m not surprised. Rick Ross is a coon and a nigger, but it’s okay because he making paper. Right?

    On a side note, that rapper that went to the Gotti’s house on the reality show is a certified cornball.
    I feel sorry for his mother.

  20. Mack attack says:

    @ Thomas. “95 percent of what em says is nonsence”. Fuck outta here. Ems name shouldn’t be used in the same sentance as ross. And it’s only nonsence to you because your mind is too narrow to understand ems flow.

  21. fuck that officer ricky fake ass gangsta…
    he really thinks that’s somebody givin a fuck for what he has to say…
    n**a, kill yourself…
    i don’t eve consider ricky as a rapper…
    he is delusional, a ex-officer who thinks that’s a super gangster…
    damn, he praise people that made our people addicted, and robbed shits…
    i don’t think that use somebody that robbed, killed and did everything for money it’s cool…
    FUCK YOU OFFICER RICKY…

    “somebody turn the channel man this gangsta shit is boring
    nobody believes ya so please record another story”

  22. wickwickwack says:

    enough with the gangsta image …he needs to quit using other people to make his kind of music

    Be u Ross !

  23. Eyo says:

    Rick Ross is like the poor people’s president.

  24. jucks says:

    This website has become a Rick Ross Twitter page.

    But really, doesn’t it annoy the F*CK outta everyone the way he talks. He’s like a robot.

    Interviewer: Tell us about your new album.
    RR: Well it’s truly a blessing, it’s a glorious to be on album number 4.

    Interviewer: You have a collab with Jay Z?
    RR: Oh yeah the almighty Jay Z came through and most definitely blessed us with a wonderful piece of art. The talented and beautiful ___ also blessed us.

    Interviewer: Feelings about 50 Cent?
    RR: Oh it’s definitely a blessing for me to have been victorious against 50 Cent.

  25. chitlin coon says:

    soooooooooooooooooooooooooo………………. ITS OK WHEN BIGGIE NAS AND JAYZ DO GOTTI COMPATISONS? ITS OK WHEN PAC DID IT?? EVERY FUCKING RAPPER YOUR CUNTS LISTEN TO LOOKS UP TO THE FUCKIN MOB! FROM AZ- RICK ROSS. THE DOUBLE STANDARDS KEEP ME IN AWE! but its cool cuz many folks like me who dont have a fucking clue what a hip hop blog is will buy his album. so you guys keep jerking off in a circle, and keep preaching to your own choir!!lololol hahahahahahaha!!!!!! and lol @ jucks! i will say that sounds about right on the interview! but at the end of the day the music is good. BACK IN LIKE 99 i HEARD PEOPLE SAY, “I DONT CARE IF MARSHALLS WHITE, I DONT CARE IF HE SAID SOME BAD STUFF BOUT BLK CHICS, I DONT CARE IF HE IS ON DRUGS ID ONT CARE ABOUT ANY OF THAT CUS HES MUSIC IS GOOD.” so whats the difference when it comes to rick ross? i dont care if the dude locked up a million rappers. he is still better than most of them.

    <———–Sits back and waits for some one to justify why its all about the "music" with EM and not all about the "music" with Ross.

    south wins again bitches..bwahahahahahahahahah!!

  26. DIGGSY!!! says:

    @ who else

    kill yo self

  27. big dawg says:

    yea ross can rap he doing his thing but he got expose so what how many other rappers out there lying in there music its only a few rappers that are real the others selling they soul just to make a dolloar twitter.com/bdallas81

  28. mac DIESEL says:

    FUCK THAT GREASE BACK GUIDO GUINNEA ASS WOP JOHN GOTTI!!! THAT FILTHY GREASE BACK DIED IN SHAME IN THAT SHITHOLE JAIL CELL!!!! HIS MOMMA WAS AN ITALIAN COON!!!! COCKSUCKA!!!!

    SIDEBAR: HEY, U WANNA GET AN ITALIAN MAD??? JUST TELL ‘EM ABOUT THE MOORS!!!! HA!!!!

    DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

  29. james bond says:

    not that I care, but since no one else responded to you @ chitlin coon…I Will!

    Why it’s not all about the music with Ross: Almost every rapper you can mention off the top of your head, has someway or in some form tryed or DID incoporate their lives into the music. in THIS game, Rap that is, being anything from outside of the norm’ is almost forbidden, like taboo. You can’t have a occupation as a CO, a judge, a prosecutor, etc. I mean, at one point if you had a job prior to rap, that happened to be in a pizza parlor, you would immediately be ousted. Now fast-forward to 2010. You have rappers named Gucci Mane, Young Jeezy, etc. The list goes on forever, and everybody is so called “Real”, or “Trappin”, something along them lines. Now if someone happens to dig up some dirt on these “real – trappers”, and they prove to not be as 100% as they’ve mentioned, then it’s an immediate court summon issued for you to either denounce or defend this character you’ve created, which is ultimately YOU. When you lie under oath, it’s not a nice thing to do in the hiphop world, ya know? Music is only 20% of these musicians focus. 50% goes to crafting this special character that doesn’t get played out in a few years (Lil Jon), the other 30% is just business oriented. The protocol is different now my friend, and Ross is no exception to the guilloutine. That nigga lied about something so simple, and actually looking at it, he could’ve been a fuckin pioneer and kept it real. I guarentee 90% of rappers would have been rejoicing – imagine that, all these rappers coming out and saying yeah, I used to clean fish tanks. Or yea I picked up dirty dog shit for a living – instead, this coon burger lies to the world, ultimately his fans. In the end, his sales plummet, his shows are less filled, and people laugh at his character. Sorry to put it so long, but you asked, and a bored muthafucka wit a blunt and keyboard answered. good day

  30. 3rdRail says:

    “When I was able to graduate from the gutter I took myself out of the gutter, I advanced myself” -John Gotti

    That quote my brothers and sisters, is EXACTLY why WE as a people never come up, because WE do not have that same mentality. We like to emulate our brothers and sisters that are still in the slums, we make them our heroes, the people to be, the cool. This man, the last true American Gangster had sense enough to say the above quote. Yet we make a lil money and still want to “keep it real” SMH.

  31. Post no billz says:

    John gotti was a joke.. His stupidity and appititte to be a celeberity brought down the gambino crime family and la costra nostra.. Its all facts not an opinion.. Some gangster he was..

  32. […] Related: Check out Rick Ross speaking on his album title with RapRader here. […]

  33. jim says:

    Rick Ross is a fat piece of shit… coons and niggers! smh

  34. chitlin coon says:

    @james bond in relation to sagging music sales through out the industry , u canT say his sales dropped any more than 50 did(OR JADA, OR FABOLOUS, OR A LOT OF NIGGAS WUTANG INCLUDED). Now i feel you… I was not even that much of a ross fan before all of this co stuff came out…but he did something so few rappers do. he earned a fan. now lemme explain y. when He lied about the co thing i thought he had just yung bucked himself..but you know what kept him alive in all of that shit with fif and one baby moms..and the porno with the other…and the photographs…? That no one outside of new york would vouch against him…i mean it cant be the money cuz..all the main drug niggas in miami already got cheese..so..its not like ross or def jam bought his credibility…you agree with me to this point right?? ok now with that being said..dude was still about to be black balled by the industry cuz of this shit..i thought just like you, his career was over! he aint gonna get no shows.. none of the real niggas in hip hop/rap would go near this guy! right?? wrong. the reason why people down here like ross and the main reason he was able to outsale fifty on his last album is because while fifty wwas doin pimpin curly skits and crying on radio shows tryingto be funny… ROSS WAS GIVING THAT NIGGA THE BUSINESS LYRICALLY. HE SIMPLY MADE BETTER MUSIC THAN FIFTY…i knowthe fifty stans are gonna come and say “fifty was real in his rhymes” and all that…BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY BUDDY NEVER CAME BACK AT ROSS ON WAX…NOT THE FEW JABS ON A SONG OR TWO…I MEAN BUDDY JUST SAT THERE AND DID THE SAME ISH HE DID WITH FAT JOE, AND NAS…JUST TALKED! AND INSTEAD OF ROSS GETTIN INTO A TALKING WAR WITH THE NIGGA, HE JUST DROPPED A YR OF THE HOTTEST VERSES I HAVE HEARD IN A WHILE (in mainstream hip hop). see james bond..its like this..we know niggas in the industry are flaky as hell right?? and the ones who have a rep of being real (trae, Jeezy , etc)would not put that rep at risk for rapping with 5-0 right?? then how do you explain every one… EVERYfuckin ONE is DOIN SONGS WITH THE NIGGA?? I MEAN MORE NIGGAS STARTED DOIN SONGS WITH HIM AFTER HE CAME OUT AS A CO…HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT? PLUS NONE OF THE FOLKS WHO USED TO FUCK WITH HIM LEFT THE TABLE…NOT GUCCI…NOT JEEZY…NOT JAY…NOT TRINA…I MEAN BUDDY KEPT EVERYTHING MOVING LIKE NOTHIN HAD HAPPENED…AND IN THE MEANWHILE GOT A BIGGER BASE…ITS TOO MANY FOR ME TO NAME HERE..BUT YOUTUBE ALL THE SONGS ROSS DONE PUT OUT AFTER HIS “outting”.. I MEAN ALL THESE NIGGAS WHO DONE DID SONGS WITH ROSS CAN NOT BE FAKE TOO RIGHT..I MEAN FROM FAB TO YO GOTTI..THESE NIGGAS CAN ALL BE FAKE RIGHT?? these are yall fav rappers! NAS included! lol i MEAN THE THOUSANDS THAT PACK PHILLIPS ARENA AND THE THOUSANDS WHO CAME OUT TO SEE HIM IN HAITI HAVE TO SEE SOMETHING IN HIM …I PERSONALLY THINK THAT IT IS THIS….THE REASON RICK ROSS IS ON EVERY REMIX ON THE RADIO..AND GOT FEATURES WITH TRAE THA TRUTH AND REAL NIGGAS LIKE THIS IS BECAUSE PEOPLE REALLY FEEL DUDES MUSIC..EVEN ON HERE, NIGGAS SAY “fuck that cop ! he can rap but fuck him!” every one knows buddy can rap.Outside of drake or jayz his rap posts get the most damn responses! im know he aint biggie, i know he aint 3stacks..but the nigga can seriously rap..and know how to pick the right beat with it..HE KNOW HOW TO FLOW..PAPOOSE DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THIS..sorry had to name a nice mc type nigga to explain. 50 cent snitche, lil wayne kissed a dude..i mean there is a lot worse out there people! i mean i sit at the engineers board half of the day so i blog alot to kill time honestly..and most of the niggas who hate ross still type “gggg unit” in there resposes on some of these sites ( hip hop dx, sohh, etc)

    so in conclusion James bond , lol, if I see that buddy lasted and technically out sold fifty week one sales after 50 threw the damn sink at him,
    (sold more than kiss and fab too)..and i mean all of my fav rappers still fuck with him, and more real nigga rappers( boosie, Trae) are starting to fuck with him..(i mean the type of niggas who done been locked up and have the feds investigating them all the time)..and jayz(king of “if you dont look good im distancing my self from you”) is still fucking with him ..and most importantly NO ONE OUT SIDE OF NEW YORK CAN DISCREDIT THE DUDE(SORRY YOYOSONDUNNERS BUT NIGGAS IN THE SOUTH DONT GIVE A FUCK WHAT U THINK) … NONE OF THE MANY D BOYS WHO KNEW THE BOBBIE BROS IN FL..AND THE CURRENT DOPE DEALERS WILL COME OUT AGAINST HIM CLAIMING CARROLL CITY…THEN USING MY LOGIC. i HAVE TO AND WILL STILL LIKE AND LISTEN TO HIS MUSIC. I like his music..all of my fav rappers like his music…all of the slum d boys like his music across the country. and if you took time to read all of this….then my friend deep down inside…you like his music too.

    South still winnin.

    ps sorry for the long response but we mixing right now and this ish takes for ever to transfer!

  35. D says:

    Ricky fails again….remember what happened 2 the “Teflon” Don + Ross just signed 2 Diddys management company….

    The writings on the wall

  36. BlackAnastasia says:

    @Chitlin Coon Ross did not outsell 50 1st week 50 sold 158k Ross like aroung 150K so i don`t know where you get that bullshit from and name me 1song that Ross did in that beef with 50Cent that anybody remembers?overall 50 Album BISD sold more620K, than Ross DTR 430K,which still to this day is not Gold so when the Smoke Clears 50 is the Victor once again he got deep in Ross Ass on “Tia Told Me”what song did Ross do?

  37. BTK says:

    @chitlin coon

    WTF is that a college essay? haha jp but for real how long that take you to write?

  38. hmm says:

    FUCKIN DISGRACE TO RAP MUSIC RAP AND MUSIC IS ABOUT EXPERIENCES NOT MOVIES AND BOOKS AND A FEW NEWS PAPER ARTICLES I mean he was a CO so he heard alot of stories what niggas did so he take all those dudes experiences

  39. PAUL GASOUL says:

    Ross got little young kids listening to BMF ON MY BLOCK. NOT REALIZING THEY WALKING PAST A REAL HUSTLER (MYSELF) SMH. RITE IN FRONT OF MY TRAPP. FAKE ASS NICCA , WIT A REAL MESSAGE. IM NOT BUYING THE ALBUM .

  40. PAUL GASOUL says:

    ” I LOVE STAND UP GUYS , I LOVE REAL WOMAN”. (GUESS THAT WAS HIS WAY OF SAYING ”PAUSE NO HOMO” W/O REALLY SAYING ” NO HOMO”. HE IS TOO SCRIPTED AND PREDICTABLE .

  41. […] Two months ago, Ross responsed to the imminmet gripe with Rap Radar and said the title was a representation of […]

  42. Grown Folk says:

    Can’t get mad at Ross for sticking to his brand.

  43. funkmob says:

    William Leonard Roberts II a.k.a Rick Ross is a former correction officer. Naming his album after Jhon Gotti a.k.a The Teflon Don, the head of the 5 New York families. Now who is trying to bullshit who. This dude is as fake as a 10 dollar rolex imported from the far east.

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