305 unearthed vintage audio of Officer Ricky rhyming over T.I.’s “Doing My Job,” Talk about irony. Check out the back story:
“Here’s a song Ross recorded back in 2002, produced by Kanye West. It was actually recorded for the 2002 version of Port Of Miami over a beat that later became T.I.’s for his 2003 Trap Musik
album. From what I know, this is one of the reasons that sparked a
small beef between T.I. and Ross for a little while (I could be wrong
because that’s hearsay) because T.I. eventually ended up snatching the
beat. Either way, I remember this song got leaked on a DJ EFN mixtape
– and I remember that Slip-N-Slide was fuming and mad that the song
leaked a little prematurely. And also, you hear in the song “99 Jamz
show me some love.” This was at a time when Ross and 99 Jamz were at
odds and had a little bit of a scuffle over airplay issues and if I
remember correctly, 99 Jamz made it a point to NOT play any Ross
records at time. Later that changed as “Hustlin’”, Ross’ breakthrough
single, was debuted on 99 Jamz via DJ Khaled’s nightshow and the rest
is history.”
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