New LP: Rick Ross ‘Black Dollar’
September 3, 2015 @ 3:14 PM EDT
Mixtape
Cha Ching.
At free of charge, Rick Ross delivers his latest body of work, Black Dollar. The project features, Future, Wale, Gucci Mane, Meek Mill and The-Dream and August Alsina. Download and stream below.
DOWNLOADED FROM SPINRILLA SHIT IS STRAIGHT FIRE!!!! DAMN HOMIE GIVING AWAY MUSIC WHEN YOUR RAP HERO ON TWITTER AND IG GOSSIPING LIKE A CHICK TRYING TO SELL PISSWATER!! CAN’T EVEN GET A DECENT SINGLE TOGETHER!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
shut the fuck bama the tape is garbage.
ALL FRAUDS REJOICE ITS HERE FOR FREE SINCE DEFJAM WILL NO LONGER WASTE A BUDGET ON MY FAVORITE OFFICER!
GO AHEAD AND DOWNLOAD IT,THEN COME ON HERE AND TALK SHIT ABOUT IT!!!! LMAO FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Shits garbage like your edm shit. What did I say about Colfax?
officer ricky is the biggest fraud ever but he does make some dope entertaining music
GOT THE INTERNET ON FIRE!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
#COLFAX
YOU BAMAS WILL NEVER GET A REPLY FROM ME I JUST IGNORE YOU LIKE A PESKY FLY OR GNAT!!!! LMAO FK YO FEELINGS!!!!
You just replied dipshit.
YOU BOUT AS LAME AS YO CITY DENVER, CO.
Can’t fuck with the legal state. BITCH!
u reply to niggas all day michael, its actually pathetic how much of a life u dont have, watching your downward spiral is great though…
LOL IM LAUGHING AT MY BUM ASS SELF! IM FINNA FUCK MY PETS TO BLACK DOLLAR!
…..I don’t support the police!!!
FK YOU BAMA. MY NOSE HURTS!!!
This shit is flames. Def best mixtape/album of the year
NOT BETTER THAN HELL CAT!
Hell No!! Best album of the year goes to Kendrick Lamar & Fuck this fat C.O ass nigga
Hahaha @ kendrick lamar. That nigga is wak n does weirdo voices like nicki minaj. As a grown man n boss I cant listen to that
THIS IS MY OTHER ACCOUNT CLICK THE NAME I BET IT SHOWS HOW LAME I AM.
YOU’RE EMBARRASSING YOURSELF HOMIE!!! SMH
FK YO FEELINGS!!!
no more than you’ve been embarrassing your self on this website for the last year or so every time you comment BAMA
Everybody trying to become the new wack diesel all because he got a s/o on the breakfast club. Like seriously how sad is your life if one of your goals is to get a s/o for being a troll smh these guys are just sad
-IMAGINATION
FK YO FEELINGS AND MY LONG ASS NOSE
HE WENT FROM A 100 CRIP TO A FKN CLOWN OVERNIGHT!!! TRUE COLORS CAME OUT!!! HE’S A WANKSTA!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
ONCE AGAIN WE NEED TO STICK TO OUR OWN CULTURE AINT NO 100s ON CRENSHAW WE SO LAME. WE NEED TO DO MORE GOOGLES!
Yet you listen to a fake rapper & a C.O Fuck this police officer this nigga is trash!!
So as a grown man you won’t listen to Kendrick talking about life, but you’ll listen to stories of a fake drug dealer?
Do you REALLY “LISTEN” to K.DOT? Because he rap about SELLING DOPE and PIMPIMG HOES too! Do he do EITHER? EVERY RAPPER “LIE” If they wasn’t LYING “ALL” these niggas would be in JAIL!!!
When did Kendrick ever say he himself sold drugs except as a metaphor for his music????
Be real my G, if he was not a former CO, would you dig his music?? Would you bump his music in your iPod or in your whip???
To be honest, I don’t believe in his lyrics at all. He’s not wack at all and them beats be on point. I am just saying.
If he was not a C.O I still would not listen to him but tha beats do be on point
I feel you. Listening to the beats, he do have an ear for them. Beats be banging like a mutha…
i could list like 2 dozen albums that came out this year that are better, even albums i havent listened to yet i know are better than these recycled fairytale raps
List them!!! You can’t name 1 with BETTER PRODUCTION!!! Niggas ain’t picking BETTER BEATS than Ross! NOBODY!!! Not for a WHOLE ALBUM!! Damn near EVERY BEAT BANGING!!
thats all yall can say about william.. he pick good beats, no one says anything good about his bars
Bars on point TOO!!! That’s what make this a CLASSIC MIXTAPE!!!
ross will never have a classic anything except those classic losses he took and did nothing about like when he got ran outta the D
What do that have to do with GOOD MUSIC? Okay you win LOL You must be 12 years old. Nigga go do your homework GROWN FOLKS TALKING!!!
fairytale raps about a life he was never about aint what i call good, grown folks dont get down with that fraud shit that poisons the minds of the youth.
What bout futures mixtapes…..or juicy Js mixtapes…i could on and on 10 year old
that only 2 not 2 DOZEN!!!
How?
56 Nights did drop this year nigga so it is not the best mixtape of the year
U can’t be serious, future- 56 nights did drop this year…best mixtape
U gotta be 10 years old to say that
We all know his is a fraud but we still listen to his music. Why is that?
i aint listening, fuck this, ha
I swear before listening to ross track I look at the comments n how much they hate n thats how ill know its really good lol. If they dont hate as hard shit is mediocre
#FACTS
THAT MUST MEAN GUNIT IS HOT CAUSE WE STAY HATING. LIKE THAT LAST 9 SHOTS POST. WE WERE HATING UP!
bitch tits knew that shit was gonna go plastic like Gunplay’s album (less than 1000 sold first week) so he had to give that trash away for free to his police loving fans
def jam wanted no part of this bumjuice
ITS TRUE BUT HE’S STILL MY BOSS!
FK YO FEELINGS ???
He TOLD ON 40 dudes! Doing BLOGS like your FAVORITE COWARD!!!
WHO THE BUTT INSPECTOR?
this coward didnt even stick up for his own artist meek mill who got bodied by a canadian singer for ironically calling him fake (when hes signed to the biggest fraud in music)
say what u will about curtis but he would never let one of his homies get disrespected and clowned like that without making a move, bodies would be dropping yo
TRUE CURTIS LIKE MOST BLACKS ARE TO AGGRESSIVE!
Meek STAYED COOL with 50 even thou he was SIGNED to ROSS!!! So why should Ross jump of the porch for a guy he just signed against somebody he’s BEEN friends with? If Wayne diss Meek should Ross go at Wayne too? FOH!!!
YEA… WE DONT GET IT WE HAVE 6 PETS FOR FRIENDS!!!
yes he should if he was a real nigga, u seen young buck chillin with ross n them now that he back with the unit?
He had to go back. He still signed to a label with NO deal LOL
He did go chill with game tho and said fuck 50!
Talking 50 on a Rick Ross blog post! How pathetic are you? Lol look man just face it, 50 is dead out here in the streets!!! He can’t even go gold any more. Hell he barely sales 200k nowadays lol I love how tall say Rick Ross is fraud, but over look all of 50 lies!!!! Nigga went to court and said, he has a fabricated lifestyle. All his cars & jewelry is rented. Where’s that 250 mill interscope supposedly paid him? Oh and let’s not mention him still rapping bout selling drugs when he hasn’t done that for over a damn decade.
when the last time ross or anyone on mmg went gold
Meek is at like 425k and mastermind is at 400k something as well. They’ll be going gold real soon. Can’t say the same for animal ambition or both g unit eps. They not even close
meek is at 333,000!!! those albums are nevr going gold, check the sales
MAJOR LABEL FLOPS, G-Unit is indie
Macklemore is indie and selling more than 50! Tech 9 is indie and still selling more than 50. Mac miller is indie and still selling more than 50!!! That indie shit is bogus. Interscope dropped his ass cause he could no longer sale at a major label. When will u stans get that thru yall heads? Lol
How much tech last album do I’ll wait?
I’m sure interscope didn’t mind when he said fuck Jimmy or created his own company. 50 don’t got the hottest show on TV… FK YO FEELINGS
More than 50’s which was my WHOLE point dumb ass!!! Man go head and troll somewhere else. You will NEVER get a s/o on the breakfast club nice try tho
No it didn’t I find the numbers for you.
I’ve gotten one before BAMA!!!
And total sells in AA is at 150k about the Same as Tech!
Nice try 50 hit his peak in 03/04 and been SUCSESSFUL in rap doing it his way not the reach out to all famous rappers for help way. FK THAT BAMA AND YO FEELINGS
Hahahaha I’m done with your wanna be wack diesel ass! You were wrong just face it. Tech 9 last album sold more and had better first week sales than currrrrttrrtiiiiisssss LMAO GTFOH I’m done with you! Respond all you want, have fun
IT HAD BETTER FIRST WEEK BUT STALLED AT 11k THE NEXT!
AA did 47 then 15 then 10…. U RIGHT ON THE FIRST WEEK I THINK AA WOULD HAVE DONE 60 WITH A EM AND WAYNE FT.
ROSS HAD A BETTER FIRST WEEK THEN PHARREL WHO EVENTUALLY WENT GOLD THOUGH?
SAME WITH MEEK BUT LETS SEE IF HE OUTSELLS FUTURE IN THE LONG RUN….
and gunplay still sold less than 1k on MMG/Def Jam… Ross last MAJOR LABEL album was a flop so he gotta give it away to try and get some sort of buzz again after meek and gunplay disgraced his team again
Hahahaha it’s gunplay! Wtf do you expect? Smh that’s like yayo coming out with an album in 2015. Do you think he would sale? Lol And please STOP acting like Ross ain’t drop TWO albums in the same year!!!! The first one he dropped is almost gold, but I love how you gloss over that. In fact both the g unit eps and 50’s albums don’t even equal HALF of what Ross’s mastermind album total sales is. 50 is NO longer on a major cause he can’t even sale over 200k with THREE albums lol GTFOH!! If Ross was such a failure wouldn’t he been dropped by now? No major label is gonna keep an artist that keeps flopping. Ie chief keef, trinadad james, 50 CENT!!!! Stop it
LOL Mastermind stopped selling completely and is at 418, titty man is never gonna move 80 thousand more copies of that shit,
Link meek as at 333,000 we try so hard don’t we ?
dang that nigga meek mill go HAM. he kilt every track he was on… sike nigga, kill yoself.
LMFAO!
THE INTERNET GOING NUTS. MY PETS TOLD ME!
On song number 7 haven’t hard a weak song yet!
foh!
Just got finish. CLASSIC MIXTAPE SHIT! PRODUCTION STRONG 8/10!!! BARS 9/10!!!! FEATURES FIT WELL!!!
its that you rozay?
BAWSE!!!
oh shit!
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50’s financial woes, I never speak of them / Years ago, Pimpin’ Curly, we know we ethered him!
MORE DELOUSHIN BUT THEN AGAIN JAY Z AFTER EITHERED WAS STILL STANDING MAKING BOSS MOVES. SAME WITH 50 I CANT WAIT TILL MMG GO INDY CAN YOU IMAGINE THE NUMBERS! FK YO FEELINS
50 not INDY! He SIGNED to CAROLINE/CAPITOL!!!
Nope Labels have distributors IM A SUCSESSFUL EDM PRODUCER I SHOULD KNOW. DO yo GOOGLES AND SHOW ON INDY ARTIST WITHOUT A DISTRUBUTOR A REAL ARTIST NOT ONE LIKE ME!
That’s Mylo the self-proclaimed crip passing for Mikey.
YOU FORGOT HIGH RANKING LOL FK YO FEELINGS!!! MYTH MAKERS UNITE! OR IS IT U-NIGHT? IM DUMB AS FUCK!!!
He over here because VLAD punk ass don’t post shit about ross!
Yo my g i have 8 disqus followers. I need some mo’.
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MYLO is the name.
ross had his paid bodyguards beat up vlad for questioning his past in law enforcement and he won a pile of money and how he dont post nothin about titty man on his popular website
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YOU PROBABLY DIDNT EVEN LISTEN TO THE SHIT!!!! USED UP ALL YA DATA TROLLIN RICK ROSS POSTS ON NSHIT LOL
CRICKET, METRO PCS PHONE HAVING ASS!!! FK YO FEELINGS!!!
Your comment smells like def jam intern ip addresses
nah, just nigga that like good music! Why would Def Jam promote a FREE ALBUM?
MMG intern! FK HIS FEELINGS!
I knew this mixtape was gonna be garbage.
Not feeling it no more needs to come with something different
You want Ross to rap about broke shit so you can relate, huh?
Just seen u message and my answer is yes lol
he reused all the flows and rhymes from old tracks, the beats were mellowed down but repetitive. fuck the black chief wiggum and his clown ass affiliates
This shit feel like the old Ricky Ross coming back!!! Def a banger
u mean the old ricky ross that used to search the booty holes of young black men from the streets lookin for drugs
Nigga he did that for a year and a half at 19! GTFOH with that bullshit lol so I guess whatever u were doing for a job at 19 we should just hold u to that for the rest of your life. U dudes sound like straight idiots. I was working at Costco at 19 so does that define who I am today? No so cut it out hater
but did u lie about working at costco at 19? were u ashamed of working at costco at 19? officer ricky was cause he wasnt a real nicca
Tear ?
NO RESPONSE LOL, that fraud vehemently denied his past when exposed with the truth and even tried to call out other cats for lying about his true fraudulent past
Ur a bitch just like him
I thought “Dead Rappers” was gonna be all about 50 cent Lmao It should’ve been. That boy been dead out here lol rip floppy cent
YEAH IT WAS ABOUT GUNPLAY, STALLEY, AND WALE.
#’s DONT LIE!
FEED THESE STREETS ROZAY!!!! LMAO FK YO FEELINGS!!!
gotta give them boys in blue something to ride around and bump while they bust real dope boys
56 Nights > Black Dollar
but this mixtape goes hard tho
haven’t gone inside yet, still jamming- great project.
So Gunplay aka Pookie couldnt even get a feature from his big homie after carrying his weed and bags for 10+ years and getting beat down over some shit Ricky started? He finally got that release date on MMG/Def Jam and Ross let that shit flop harder than Troy Ave!
But Meek somehow got 2 features after making the whole team look weak as fuck.
THE BOSS IS SUCH A BOSS HE TOOK GUNPLAYS BUDGET AND MADE A MIXTAPE. HE GETS A MILLION PER DOWNLOAD! THE DENVER STREETS ARE GOING CRAZY!!!
Why u so worried bout gunplay? U need to worry bout that album 50 been pushing back for 7 years lmao
50 rich he don’t need to have an album for SUCSESS FK YOU BAMA!
sad to see ross do his so called long time friend bumplay like dat after he stood by by ross for over a decade, homie like 36 when he got to that first drop an album that no one even noticed it.Not even 1 GP verse on this trife
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Ross driving the 50 STANS CRAZY like PUSSY!!!
WHO YOU? YOU’RE STAN IN THE LAST VERSE “DEAR 50 I HAVE MY PETS IN THE TRUNK AND IM ABOUT TO DRIVE OFF THE DENVER BRIDGE BOO HOO 50 CAREER IS FAR MORE SUCSESSFUL THAN MINE’S AND BAWSE!
Hell yea! They hate the fact that he’s delivering good music and their boy 50 been pushing back the same Album for like 7 years lol
WE JUST GOT A DOPE SONG AND 2 GUNIT ALBUM EPS.
THE TITLE TRACK FOR HIS SHOW IS MORE POPULAR THAN ANY CURRENT ROSS SONG ?
Those 2 songs PLUS those 2 EP don’t = UP TO THIS!!! The best song on the EP was song they use a ROSS BEAT on!!!
DAMN HAVE WE AS STANS START SAYING ROSS BEATS?
THATS JUSTICE LEAGUE SOUND AND HE CANT AFFORD IT NO MORE. LOL HE CAN ONLY AFFORD ONE ALBUM AT A TIME.
THE TRUE BOSSES DONT HAVE TO RAP AND FUFILL A QUOTA JIGGA, DRE , PUFFY, 50, ETC
ROSS OUTSOLD SNOOP WHO’s WORTH MORE WHO HAS MORE OF AN IMPACT ON THE GAME?
How you KNOW what SONG I was talking about LOL You just PROVED my point!
CAUSE WHEN THE VIDEO CAME OUT WE POINTED IT OUT DUMMY, NOW WHO IS JUSTICE LEAGUE SIGNED TO AGAIN?
That’s Mylo the fraud crip.
NO UR MYLO SEE YOUR NAME! FK YO FEELINGS ME THINK ILL FIND ANOTHER AVI LOL
Justice League is SIGNED to MMG!!! Those BEATS IN HOUSE!!!
I KNOW IM DUMB AND NOT THE SMARTEST GREEK BUT THERE SIGNED TO THERE OWN INPRINT IF YOU DO YO GOOGLES!!! STANS DONT STICK TO FACTS!
Mylo, you’re the gayest crip ever known to mankind.
THEY’RE signed to THEIR own IMPrint.
CACCIES AND INPRINTS BAMA THIS IS THE GREEK WAY!
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When he dropped 9 shots he slipped up and told the public the song was 3 years old LOL
That Worlds finest record nice just because of that sample.. Same sample that was used for the Hov & BIG Brooklyn record on Reasonable doubt!!
@ B.Dot
At free of charge, Rick Ross delivers his latest body of work, Black Dollar.
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THAT COP BETTER PUT IT OUT FOR FREE!!!! THAT FAT FRAUD KNOW HE WOULD’VE FLOPPED EXTRA HARD AND CAUGHT ANOTHER “L” LIKE HIS FAVORITE JUNKIE GUNPLAY!!!! LMAO!!!! THE WEAKEST CREW IN HIP-HOP!!!!
#FRAUD
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
DONT FORGET ABOUT STALLEY AND WALE POPS! MMG IS VERY TOUCHABLE ?
LMAO ??? CMD is waiting white boy!
MYHO WANTS TO FIGHT YOU. TAKE THAT TRIP AND BOOK A FLIGHT!
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DUDE QUIT COMMENTING. NO ONE READS YOUR DUMB SHIT ANYMORE
Rozay was dissing 50 cent in the 2nd verse on Icon! Great tape too!
too scared to say a niccas name?
OF COURSE HE NOT TRYING TO GRT HIS ARTIST BEAT UP AGAIN FK YO FEELINGS
yall didnt like it when you found out about santa clause not being real, so why do you keep on crushing this young suckas heart telling them about the fakeness or theyr idol? just let them live the fantasy
This song with wale hard AF
50 ended this nigga career.
Even you don’t believe that! Lol
HE JUST PERMENTLY EXPOSED HIM! HE WONT NEVER GO GOLD SND NEVER WENT PLAT! FK YO FEELING MYHO YOU BLACK UGLY BITCH!
He’s been gold since his beef with 50 dumb ass! And mastermind is almost gold right now lmao you trying to hard dude! Smh
WE kNOW THE NUMBERS BITCH! Our BOSS WENT GOLD LIKE 50 BISD ALBUM BAMA SO WHAT! HE SAID HE WOULD GO PLAT 10 TIMES! HE PROMISED ME ? HE CANT EVEN GO GOLD 10 TIMES? THAT 3 N A ROW WITHOUT A PLAQUE! 2 CHAINZ OUT SOlD ME!
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deeper than rap still aint gold, that was during the height of the beef
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WHAT HAPPEN TO YO PHOTO I WANT TO COMPARE OUR NOSES MYHO THE POSER. I COULD GET BOOBY LOC TO SLAP YOU AGAIN. YOU WERE EXPLOTING 100/100 NiGHTs! THE ROLLING HUNDRED GRAPE ST DENVER GANGSTER CRIPS PUT A LAMB ON YOUR HEAD!
ILL SLAP YOU, LET ME FINALLY SELL A BEAT I WILL FLY TO LA WITH ALL MY HIGH RANKING CRIPS LIKE JAYO FELONY BAMA! YOUR GRANDMA IS WHITE LIKE MINES BAMA, WE SUPPOSE TO BE BROTHERS! MALAKA!!!
#4 beat from Bankroll Fresh mixtape. D Rich produced that
Sometimes you have to sit down to appreciate being on your feet. House arrest time well spent couple missteps could have done without “Turn Ya Back” but in a era when a Battle Rapper lost to a singing nigga I guess we can let a liar live. Job well done Rozay.
Fuckin terrible…..” i got money i get pussy i get finer things like milly….” this is all this fake fat bitch talks about…just like his bottom buddy meek mills
I GUESS MAC DIESEL BITCH ASS RAN OUTTA RICK ROSS SLANDER!!! THIS MIXTAPE IS BANGIN!!!
Only thing they can say was he was a C.O when he 19!
In the summer of 2008, a photograph surfaced online that showed the Miami rapper Rick Ross, age 19, dressed as a corrections officer, at a corrections-department ceremony, shaking hands with the then-head of the South Florida Reception Center. Ross had released two gold-certified albums in which he cast himself as a fearsome former crime kingpin. Born William Leonard Roberts, he’d taken his stage name from an actual drug trafficker, and he frequently referred to himself as “Boss.” He’d stuffed his hits, like the 2006 breakout single, “Hustlin’,” with boasts of crack-trade glory. The photograph threw his underworld résumé into question: Was it all a fabrication?
The rapper, now 35, initially denied it was him in the picture. Blaming Photoshop-savvy “online hackers,” he called the image a forgery, adding, “Fake pictures are created by the fake, meant to entertain the fake.” Unconvinced, the Smoking Gun dug up an old payroll record revealing that Ross had earned about $25,000 a year as a C.O. between December 1995 and June 1997. The Web site followed up on this scoop by posting excerpts from Ross’ 86-page Dept. of Corrections personnel file. Doubters were free to peruse Ross’ job application, filled out by hand, in which he listed the college he attended for a year (Albany State in Georgia), where, he wrote, he played football, studied Criminal Justice, and once volunteered to help Red Cross flood-relief efforts. Under an “Experience” section, Ross noted that he’d worked one summer as a Big Brother through the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation department, during which time he “exchanged thoughts and ideas with middle school boys and girls” and, as “a high-school All-American,” represented “a positive role model they could relate with.” In October 2008, Ross finally admitted the documents’ validity, stressing that this didn’t undermine his bona fides as an extremely negative role model. He stuck to his story. “When I say that I’m rich off cocaine,” he told an interviewer after copping to the corrections job, “it’s because I did it.”
Something puzzling happened in the face of this exposé—the hip-hop equivalent, one might have thought, of a James Frey moment. Ross’ rap-world prestige only grew. On his solo debut, from 2006, he had seemed something like the Stone Temple Pilots to Young Jeezy’s Pearl Jam: a likable-enough instrument of record-label market-cornering. Like Jeezy, Ross commanded a gritty drug-slinging persona and matched it with a blunt, unfussy rapping style—gruff voice, magisterial slowness, abundant repetition, minimal wordplay—that doubled as ostensible proof of his authenticity. The absence of artfulness implied the absence of artifice. But whereas Jeezy had laid the groundwork for his major-label debut over several years with mixtapes and independent releases, building buzz from the ground up, Ross seemed to arrive from out of nowhere, and he was easy to dismiss as a one-hit sound-alike, rushed to airwaves to capitalize on the popular coke-rap trend.
AlOT OF NEW ACCOUNTS SUPPORTING THIS ALBUM LOL FK YOU IM THE BIGGEST PRODUCE IN DEN/NY DONT TRY TO OUT-TROLL ME!
In the summer of 2008, a photograph surfaced online that showed the Miami rapper Rick Ross, age 19, dressed as a corrections officer, at a corrections-department ceremony, shaking hands with the then-head of the South Florida Reception Center. Ross had released two gold-certified albums in which he cast himself as a fearsome former crime kingpin. Born William Leonard Roberts, he’d taken his stage name from an actual drug trafficker, and he frequently referred to himself as “Boss.” He’d stuffed his hits, like the 2006 breakout single, “Hustlin’,” with boasts of crack-trade glory. The photograph threw his underworld résumé into question: Was it all a fabrication?
The rapper, now 35, initially denied it was him in the picture. Blaming Photoshop-savvy “online hackers,” he called the image a forgery, adding, “Fake pictures are created by the fake, meant to entertain the fake.” Unconvinced, the Smoking Gun dug up an old payroll record revealing that Ross had earned about $25,000 a year as a C.O. between December 1995 and June 1997. The Web site followed up on this scoop by posting excerpts from Ross’ 86-page Dept. of Corrections personnel file. Doubters were free to peruse Ross’ job application, filled out by hand, in which he listed the college he attended for a year (Albany State in Georgia), where, he wrote, he played football, studied Criminal Justice, and once volunteered to help Red Cross flood-relief efforts. Under an “Experience” section, Ross noted that he’d worked one summer as a Big Brother through the Miami-Dade Parks and Recreation department, during which time he “exchanged thoughts and ideas with middle school boys and girls” and, as “a high-school All-American,” represented “a positive role model they could relate with.” In October 2008, Ross finally admitted the documents’ validity, stressing that this didn’t undermine his bona fides as an extremely negative role model. He stuck to his story. “When I say that I’m rich off cocaine,” he told an interviewer after copping to the corrections job, “it’s because I did it.”
Something puzzling happened in the face of this exposé—the hip-hop equivalent, one might have thought, of a James Frey moment. Ross’ rap-world prestige only grew. On his solo debut, from 2006, he had seemed something like the Stone Temple Pilots to Young Jeezy’s Pearl Jam: a likable-enough instrument of record-label market-cornering. Like Jeezy, Ross commanded a gritty drug-slinging persona and matched it with a blunt, unfussy rapping style—gruff voice, magisterial slowness, abundant repetition, minimal wordplay—that doubled as ostensible proof of his authenticity. The absence of artfulness implied the absence of artifice. But whereas Jeezy had laid the groundwork for his major-label debut over several years with mixtapes and independent releases, building buzz from the ground up, Ross seemed to arrive from out of nowhere, and he was easy to dismiss as a one-hit sound-alike, rushed to airwaves to capitalize on the popular coke-rap trend.
Best stuff. Just like stiffer in ur turkey. Gravy heads
Nut so they go good
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damn ppl i’ve been commenting on y’all comments the whole day but y’all just gonna ignore a nigga like dat. wheres the love niggaz?
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Ross releasing music while 50 Cent is playing on HangWith taking trash. SKI STILL NOT OUT AFTER 5-6 YEARS. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT NIGGA DOING?
Ross is going to prison like the one he used to work at for kidnapping a dirty mexican
Ross ON HIS SHIT as always!! Nothing new here. Ross pen game been A1! And I BELIEVE what he spits!!!
nigga ross dont even believe what he spits LOL
Nigga do you even listen to what he spitting? Or you just assume what he be talking bout? Do you actually “listen”?
LP is fire!!!
The first track was cold