Rick Ross - Port Of Miami

(Coke-rap still has a place in my heart, which is, in a few ways, a little ironic)

Worst lyrics I've ever heard. I love it on some songs where he shout says his name over the chorus, it's as though he's admitting even he doesnt give a shit about the lyrics. Anyone can rhyme like rick ross.

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this is my M*** F****king anthem....
I hustle everyday but online only

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRmFEpl74sI

KevinCali24 (14 hours ago)

I'm white and this Kat is "The Shit." He has me crackin' up.

^^^^^^^^^^^^

rick ross's whole aesthetic is so awesome, he looks like he was made in a lab to be a big kingpin drug rapper dude, looks the part, sweet videos, great voice, great beats...just wish he was a little better at actually rapping. hustlin' is...the shit...though

I hear this all the time, that Rick Ross can't rap but has a great voice, I don't understand this at all. He has a terrible voice.

I mean, he can't rap, yeah, but his voice sucks too.

yeah with a voice like that he'd be laughed out of grand buffet

what is the point of a zing that only a the recipient of the zing understands, and doesn't think is particularly funny? whose benefit is that for?

if a zing falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?

zing zen

here you go: i think al shipley's choice of herb-ass rappers to stan for indicates he can't really criticize a dude like rick ross saying his voice sucks

1st law of esoterrorism

the katt williams interlude on the dj drama album is the most annoying bs ever

the special he did for hbo is great though

i think ross' problem is that he sounds best over fast beats like "we takin over" and "holla at me" but all his singles are all "gothic synths"

not to mention that he only has one verse on those other songs

his main problem is he's a shitty rapper, m@tt is otm

more classic katt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChotQQT0bg

here you go: i think al shipley's choice of herb-ass rappers to stan for indicates he can't really criticize a dude like rick ross saying his voice sucks

-- and what, Monday, January 28, 2008 4:03 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

see, coulda been so much more direct about it instead of beating around the bush with your usual "you like x therefore your opinion doesn't matter" bullshit. so do you seriously like Rick Ross's voice, dude, or are you just being sassy? i understand where someone like Jeezy the voice and the delivery kinda overshadow the rhymes sometimes, but I don't hear that at all with Ross.

my fav katt bit is about dmx not being able to cheat in school because he can't do anything but bark

i think ross' problem is that he sounds best over fast beats like "we takin over" and "holla at me" but all his singles are all "gothic synths"

not to mention that he only has one verse on those other songs

-- J0rdan S., Monday, January 28, 2008 4:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah co-sign on this. him and Fat Joe really benefit from getting the only part of "We Takin' Over" where those bells come in.

the way ross says 'chiiiickens' >>> your favorite rapper

I'm actually gonna go to boot for Ross' voice here. He does sound badass. I'll give him that.

yeah, i dunno. i generally like weird raspy throaty rapper voices like Gorilla Zoe or whoever, but listening to RR makes me feel like i need a lozenge.

Alex in Baltimore pls note that i agree with you about rick ross, so you're probably wrong

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChotQQT0bg

-- deej, Monday, January 28, 2008 3:08 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"you got time to do stupid shit, like look at your own dick."

guys less debating whether rick ross is a 5.5 or a 6.0 rapper and more katt williams

most posts to tried by 12 vs my world premiere

i do like the cheeeekeeens part of that song. i don't hate him as a rapper, and he has enuff panache to get even some of his more boner rhymes over real well.

rick ross's greatest boners

i love the way he says "i'ma booughsss"

rick ross sux thirded

worst ross verse ever is on the make it rain remix

rick ross's greatest boners

-- and what, Monday, January 28, 2008 9:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

whip-it, whip-it REAL HARD

Ross, I'm a boss (I'm a boss) I'm the mayor (I'm the mayor)
Make it rain (Make it rain!), on these haters (on these haters!)

alright so are me and preview of the matrix 12 the only dudes really digging this?

ilx poster whiney g weingarten? has anyone else even heard this??

this thread can also double as the one where we prognosticate which of these songs is gonna end up in whiney's voice column. i'm going with "reppin my city"

so why are dudes like briehan clowning this like it's a paul barman album even though they liked the first one? i mean the beats are all really good but he gets a bunch of great hooks out in his own right, and i mean the rapping isn't great (duh) but he gets in a few good lines and he sounds pretty good in general.

i mean it seems like the party line on this is like "omg this is so depressing all this awful materialism corporate machinery" from dudes who jizz bombed american gangster and it doesn't make much sense to me, its just a totally listenable rap album imo

bink song is the jam surprise surprise

KHALED INTERLUDE MAN! WE THE BEST, MAN!!

Posted by: DJ KHALED at March 25, 2008 6:31 PM

i love the way he says "i'ma booughsss"

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, January 28, 2008 9:27 PM

yeah "We Shinin'" is unsurprisingly the one song I really fuck with. haven't even gotten through the whole album yet, though. what I said above about his voice making me feel like I need a lozenge still stands.

hes a boring rapper so im not really paying attention to his album, im sure it has some beats on it. lead single blows

"here i am" is a good radio jam

#Rick Ross Has No Hard Feelings About His Omission From T.I.'s 'Swagger Like Us'

"Paper Planes" freestyle: "What's funny about that record, I was up one night eating a Hot Pocket," he remembered. "Like 4 in the morning, watching one of them video shows. The [M.I.A.] video came on. This was two or three weeks ago. I had never heard the record. I was like, 'What's this? It's dope, whatever it is.'

maybach music is my top 5 of the yr mostly 4 tha beat

i'm looking forward to going home in two weeks and hearing lots of RAWWWS on the radio

"Niggas will learn...trillaaa."

"I'm the biggest boss that you've seen thus far"

^^^^^ so ridiculous

like, oops I need two more syllables, let me throw in some filler

also seems open to the possibility that a bigger boss may appear in the near future

"Niggas will learn...trillaaa."

― The stic.man from the hilarious 'Dead Prez' albums (some dude), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:03 (55 minutes ago)

^^this

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/2694093215_5307eb7e06.jpg?v=0 http://www.therundown.tv/wp-content/gallery/rick-ross-the-co-boss/rawse-cop-half%5B1%5D.jpg

http://rickrossboss.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/thewireross.jpg

lmao

im sitting here in class giggling

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http://209.18.98.116/promo/illseed/FunnyRossFolder/raws01.jpg

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/chosen1234/Hip%20Hop%20Music%20Dot%20Com/r6.jpg

omfg

http://sandrarose.com/images2/rick-ross-cop01.jpg

http://bp0.blogger.com/_jb7P-SEzUnk/SI0PnQxMsfI/AAAAAAAAABA/evyLf7sl9bY/s1600-h/bawse.jpg

http://rickrossboss.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/rush_hour2.jpg http://rickrossboss.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/reno911.jpg

A+ thread of the day : )

http://rickrossboss.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/villagepeople.jpg

ahahahhahaaa

rofl:

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um who the fuck is rick rossovich

Rick Rossovich (born August 28, 1957) is an American actor.
Rossovich was born Frederic Enrico Rossovich in Palo Alto, California. His brother, Tim Rossovich, is a former professional football player and also an actor.
Rossovich has appeared in over 30 films, including:
The Terminator (as Matt) (1984)
Top Gun (as 'Slider') (1986)
Roxanne (as Chris McConnell) (1987)
Navy SEALs (as Leary) (1990)
Rossovich also appeared in several TV series, including:
the USA Network TV series Pacific Blue (as Lieutenant Anthony Palermo, 1995-1998)
ER as Dr. John Taglieri (1994-1995)
Black Scorpion as Walker
Sons and Daughters (TV series) as Spud Lincoln (1991)
He has also made guest appearances in such TV shows as Tales from the Crypt, Mad About You, and Due South. In 2007, he appeared with his son Roy in an episode of House Hunters International set in Stockholm, Sweden.

Rossovich also appeared in several TV series, including:
the USA Network TV series Pacific Blue (as Lieutenant Rick Ross, 1995-1998)

I want a re-evaluation of "The Boss"

I remember a lot of hate/ambivalence toward this song when it came out. BUT (and I know you all value my opinion so much) it's one of the hottest rap tracks of the year, best T-Pain guest ft. on a single of 08 and one of THE BEST beats of the year! there i said it

it kinda falls into the cat. of what i was tlaking about on the other thread like "what am i supposed to do with this" ie: not exactly made for the club, nor crossover attempt. but still i'll JR Rotem over both the Runners and Cool & Dre cuz he killed that beat.

Ok correction, hottest rap singles not tracks

Speaking jr "that's gangsta turned out to be really dope too after a getting over initial disappointment but that may be even harder to defend

I want a re-evaluation of "The Boss"

I remember a lot of hate/ambivalence toward this song when it came out. BUT (and I know you all value my opinion so much) it's one of the hottest rap tracks of the year, best T-Pain guest ft. on a single of 08 and one of THE BEST beats of the year! there i said it

― A! (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^i cosign this 100% - re: "what am i supposed to do with this?" it sounds to me like the khaled crew doin "rollin" style zone out sleepy rap

"Rollin'" = chillout-hop

Rossovich also appeared in several TV series, including:
the USA Network TV series Pacific Blue (as Lieutenant Rick Ross, 1995-1998)

― myspace password secretary (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:27 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

lmfao

:D

never been much of a fan of "The Boss" as a song but the beat is definitely very good.

http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d2/unsecured/media/324389495/324389495_326740137_125a0487738f83c287922bdca043ae7af9d566de.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/izyzx2.gif

>:(

willing to bet dude's album is top 10 rap album of the year

just got promoted to highway patrol! BAWSE!
1:48 PM Feb 27th from web

btw

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http://www.catchdubs.com/images/hawwws1.jpg
http://www.catchdubs.com/images/hawwws2.jpg

HORSE

going with the same color suit (WHITE) as John Legend and standing next to him throughout the new video is not flattering for the boss

i can't get over that second pick - TENDER BAWSE

pic

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/2591513382_48120ed592.jpg?v=0

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a man who knows what he likes

http://www.catchdubs.com/images/hawwws2.jpg/
sarge with respect i believe the proper joke here was HAWSE and in the process of making this correction i see that nick catchdubs and his jpg got it right

i wonder if he just got better at rapping or just can afford a better ghostwriter now?

something def happened. do you guys think he writes at all?

i've been thinking about that tbh, i mean i dont know who would be ghosting for him now that wasn't ever before... it's not like his numbers had fallen off or anything. maybe smitty? idk what his verses are like but he's a notorious miami ghostwriter

then again— and noz alluded to this in a post about soulja boy— rap culture in the internet era doesn't really allow for rappers to improve as writers. i mean "something def happened" with lil wayne around tha carter but if 19 year old wayne dropped tomorrow he'd have been clowned off the face of the planet and his career as we know it would never happen

so, yeah, maybe ross is getting better as a writer

so (ghostwriting aside) this will def. be his best album and everything that's come out sounds really great, but i've realized that this is probably gonna flop in comparison to Trilla. last time he had a pretty huge debut considering that "Speedin" and "The Boss" really weren't that big

"Magnisficent" is not really cutting it. unless "Maybach Music 2" becomes a big hit some time before the release date i don't see this being a success as far as sales go, which sucks cuz it seems like the best music this guy has ever made

he'll still break 200 or 300 gs imo which is pretty good at this point i think

no way.

he's never had that many big singles man - "speedin" was a huge flop, didn't even break the hot 100 or chart on rap. "the boss" was a top 20 hit but it peaked at 5 on rap and "magnificent" is currently at 6 on rap as well as 15 on r&b

"hustlin" and "push it" have awful chart numbers, there's just something about him that makes him a force as an album artist and not really as a singles one. not to mention that 50 has kept ross' name EVERYWHERE this year - and as they say there's no such thing as bad press.

i mean, yeah, good points. I hope you're right. I guess it's just that I haven't heard "Magnificent" once anywhere and the buzz around this album is very internet rap fan-heavy which never bodes well for sales. he did surprise everyone last time with his first week sales so we'll see

idk if ship is gonna open this thread or not but he probably has a more educated guess than i tbh

ehhh kind of disappointed so far

The-Dream song is boring

"Rich Off Cocaine"
"Face" ft. Trina
"Valley Of Death"

stick out so far besides the good songs that leaked ("Maybach 2," "Usual Suspects," "Mafia Music")

Yeah fuck this

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/84128124/rickrossbike.jpg

"mafia music" is great. im sort of getting sick of kanye/weezy guest verses at this point but MM makes me wanna listen to the whole thing

Did kanye really call this rap's dark side of the moon

barf

i'm listening to this now. lol how did he get all those big names on the album?! he has that much pull?

Rick Ross is, for whatever awful reason, a popular recording artist and a top priority at Def Jam. it's not like anyone on this album is out of his league, Kanye and Ne-Yo and Wayne will guest on any old major label bullshit.

rick ross is one of the only rappers who still does big numbers. kind of inexplicably

he's famous

yeah the list is like wayne, kanye, t.i., jeezy, jay-z, 50, the game, ross and plies

Eminem dude

wayne lol

plies?!?!

yeah plies album last year did serious #s. i like him in an old school major label critically ignored but not insufferable rap star way

i mean, listening to his entire album is insufferable cuz his for the ladiez tracks are so o_O/lol but as a personality hes pretty alright

also his new song w/ gucci is the shit

isn't gucci the most famous rapper alive or something, deej?

plies didn't have two albums released last year for no reason

Gucci hasn't released a studio album since he became rap's biggest name, whiney. rock critics should just accept that they'll never get 'the masses' amirite?

Baws

so yeah this single with the-dream is the shit. havent heard some good times summer pop raps in awhile

DEEPER THAN RAP is kind of making more sense to me now

i think i was in a bad mood or something the week this came out, i was feeling super impatient and didn't want to sit through a 5:15 song called "yacht club - still think that ppl who like this more than TRILLA are trippin as hell but this is good. ROSS rules summer tho imo

TRILLA still has many more high points tho, but his rapping is def better

yacht club is wack but then again i hate reggae

suggest ban

yeah definitely a summer album

kevin k is wack imo

this thread is hilarious

http://rickrossboss.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/villagepeople.jpg

yacht club is wack but then again i hate reggae

― unbandictionary (k3vin k.), Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yacht club is wack but then again i hate reggae

― unbandictionary (k3vin k.), Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yacht club is wack but then again i hate reggae

― unbandictionary (k3vin k.), Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yacht club is dope fyi

kill all the middle-men im the militant gilligan speakin creole with gentlemen as i cruise the carribean

certainly there is so no purer representation of manifest destiny than ross having a song called "gunplay" (ft. gunplay) - never ceases to crack me up

someone needs to tell me where to get the FLA MaybachMusic new eras that teddy and officer ross are wearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXduv0Y3Kc

BOSSSS

oh. i guess i could have googled it ebfore i posted that. obv still not gonna really get one but they're kinda tyt

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/2009/06/18/maybach-music-group-x-diamond-supply-co-fitted-hat/

apparently "Lay Back" ft Robin Thicke was the SIXTH single from DTR??? it says it came out in Oct., what a terrible time to release an incredible summer jam that could have been a huge hit imo

love this video. robin thicke is so hilarious

http://www.thehypefactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Rick-Ross-Robin-Thicke-Lay-Back.jpg

I'm still amazed that he has a song called "Cigar Music"

beard music

alright so yeah this is really good

http://nahright.com/news/2010/01/21/rick-ross-mafia-music-2/

*wait for it*

BAWSE

my last load was gift wrapped by castro

it would be nice if he didn't release a dogshit whip cream & crumpets single like "magnificent" again

man that track is:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/de89a67b401952d4a403bcd51aa8d0db/199135.jpg

kinda funny when he does a sorta jay/beanie "quiet voice" fadeout part on those last lines.

damn this is hot shit.

(RAWSE)

my last load was gift wrapped by castro

― waka shame (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

is this an im the shit / toilet bowl young money-style joke

i was thinking more about jizz tbh

i love 'the teflon don'

I still can't believe dude thought "The rumors turn me on, I'm masturbating at the top" was a hot line

seeing the top of this thread makes me sad for the days I actually wanted to contribute things to ILX besides zings and trolling

new year's resolution

I mean, he can't rap, yeah, but his voice sucks too.

― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, January 28, 2008 8:46 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah with a voice like that he'd be laughed out of grand buffet

― and what, Monday, January 28, 2008 8:48 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what is the point of a zing that only a the recipient of the zing understands, and doesn't think is particularly funny? whose benefit is that for?

― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, January 28, 2008 8:49 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

<3 this thread so much

seeing the top of this thread makes me sad for the days I actually wanted to contribute things to ILX besides zings and trolling

NEW BOARD DESCRIPTION 2011

you guys are nuts, rick ross is awesome, and i <3 whiney g. in zing mode or otherwise

you do realize this thread does include opinions from people who like Rick Ross, right?

whiney your non zing/trolling posts are very good & valuable & sorely missed esp on rap threads of late

deeper than rap is great

where does PoM rank in the overall scheme of Ross? last place? worth hearing? already have a gazillion things to listen to on my laptop.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/rick-ross-sues-lmfao-over-catchphrase.html

this strikes me as funny because:

a) i was talking to my brother in Wisconsin last week about the snow, and he said "everyday I'm shufflin'" and i was like "ahhh, nice Rick Ross reference" and he went "that's Rick Ross? i thought it was LMFAO" and it turned out he's never heard "Hustlin'"

b) is the "every day I'm hustlin'" loop actual Ross's voice? it always sounded like someone else to me and The Runners always seemed to sample those slowed-down vocal loops from other songs so i kinda assumed it was from some obscure song i hadn't heard before.

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/rick-ross-has-reportedly-been-placed-on-a-life-support-machine-news.44981.html

wow yikes

cmon rozay it's not your time yet

fuck

or maybe not!

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/rick-ross-is-not-on-life-support-fat-trel-says-news.44989.html

FYI: A post from this thread is in the OED.

lol @alshipley is in the OED now pic.twitter.com/JoJB18aDEC

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