Slang Editorial: Why Are We Infatuated With Rick Ross?

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64 Responses to “Slang Editorial: Why Are We Infatuated With Rick Ross?”

  1. u mean why are YOU so infatuated with officer fat boy..

  2. Because he thinks he’s Big Meech! Huh!

  3. because of Affion Crocketts Blowin Cover Fast song.

  4. Speak for yourself. I don’t fuck with law enforcement.

  5. yup rick ross is a joke, its sad he gets any buzz in this industry.

  6. I think im Hill Street , J edgar hoover , Snitchin work thats how they knew ya. Real niggas get arrested from the fuckin start.

  7. good points here in this article … I think the hatred for 50 cent propels any artist into stardom. Further refrence SEE: Kanye West,TI,Lil Wayne

  8. aint nobody checkin for this black santa claus lookin nigga. this nigga softer than CANDY FLAWSE!

  9. only black man that rocks a beard well is kimbo/
    should take rick ross’ fat ass and throw it right through his window/
    only thing ‘deeper than rap’ about him is the craters he leaves/
    when he sits, walks or sleeps spreading earthquakes like a disease

  10. I don’t care, this buff nigga’s lyrics get me AMPED. Ashes to Ashes goes harddddd

  11. Also, this article is stupid (and I’m not just saying that as a fan). It’s agreed that his productions (on Teflon Don, anyway) are some of the best we’ve heard in years. So why the fuck shouldn’t he have his moment? It’s not like posers haven’t had their moment before. If Young Jeezy could have his moment, anyone can.

  12. ^^^ Young Jeezy really is who he says he is…. Mr 17.5

  13. i feel like you kinda jumped the gun on assuming the throne album is gonna be all like that, and you really didnt uncover the reasone of the blog title….just sayin

  14. the article is stupid coz it gives rick ross the focus and promotion that gave his over-rated as fuck lyrics and even more over-rated beats such shine, the beats he flows over only sound different to those who constantly play his shit so much that they can notice the slightest change in the pitch of certain notes played at certain times in the track, to everyone else most the beats he flows over sound the same with the odd few different ones, can listen to premo, dilla and madlib beats all day and they sound different, cant say the same with rick ross

  15. Good piece man. For real.

    Now please explain the infatuation with Lil B. I know you touched on it in the top albums of ’10 thing. But I still feel no closure in my reasoning as too why I keep going back to his fucking youtube page every other day, or why I read his tweets religiously. (No pun intended, Based God.)

  16. OK but seriously Rick Ross picks some of the best beats out Diamonds n Maybachs pt2 , Super high , Maybach music 1 2 and 3 etc and he be having good hooks. He looks the part of a Teflon Don , controversy and beef only makes him bigger and he got some bars sometimes.

  17. funny because the snitch is in my city tonight. smh. 70$ CAD for tix at the door, please get the fuck out of here rozay

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    I compiled all BIG GHOSTFACE’s posts and put it all on there. I was home sick today and decided to do a good deed.

    Hit the name for the site. No ads or any bullshit just funny ass posts made by the man himself

  19. because he’s gangsta minus the hardness, toughness, and general ganstaness. he’s our generations re-run that raps.

  20. RANDY MAWSSSE

  21. YO!!! MY NIGGA ROSS GOES HARD!!! ASHES TO ASHES!!!

  22. CANDY FLAWSSSE!

  23. lol @ the internet thugs talkin bout not messin wit ross cuz he polce…correction officers aint cops, the watch niggas in the cells and most of them niggas are grimy.

    if ross is this snitch nigga yall think then why the co-sign from established niggas in the game? why he still gettin love in miami? why aint niggas blowin up his spot with rhymes or in the streets. stop gettin yall ingo from the internet and stop acting like yall know whats happening.

    yall spend too much time arguing and complaining about these niggas like it directly impacts yall…dont like it, or what he represents dont listen, dont read the posts if hes this big fat cop rapper. its not like yall buying the albums to support.

    fuck outta here, yall niggas acting like this rap shit is real like, its the wwf and its always been. most rappers aint doing all the shit they talkin bout. i fault ross on being a liar, for not admitting it, does that mean imma front like he doesnt make shit that bangs? its entertainment, get over urselves

  24. SANDY CLAWSSSE!!!

  25. @common sense

    shut up bitch trick daddy the mayor of miami he run that shit ross a fucking snitch and a bitch just like u nigga

  26. @Common Sence , correction officers arent cops but they come too close. They put on uniforms and police people behind bars , inspecting cells , searching inmates and enforcing state laws. Ross music is tight but being a low budget drug dealer who raps about movin keys is one thing but actually workin in the prison system and then talkin bout your the coccaine boss of miami is goin too far. I still bought Teflon Don but I know the real from the fake.

  27. SANTA CLAWSSSE!

  28. Co-sign @common sensr. Good music is good music. If “Who’s the realest” meant anything in the music industry artists like Mitchy Slick, B.G., etc. would be on top and Drake would be nonexistent.

  29. @ted…im supposed to take anything u say as serious? did callin me a bitch make all ur friends lol at ur computer?

    @marty mcfly…but u bought the album, argument over.

  30. satan drawwwwse!! do i win

  31. CANDY FLAWSSSE

    SANDY CLAWSSSE
    ——————
    commonsense @y defend the dude so hard if its just entertainment?

    bottom line ross is an entertainer..seems fake as hell ..well he lied on camera…and if hes really a drug dealer/c.o y do ppl get offended when ppl make fun of him..that wud just make him a rapping..murderer..coke dealer ..so hes fair game he can take it lol.

  32. @Common Sense I buy ALOT if music. Im a fan of hip hop. Good music is Good music but I dont think Rap as ever seen a C.O become a rapper.

  33. If a member of the KKK raps the lyrics to a public enemy record. I can still like the song but I know hes fake. Yes I went there…

  34. @BillyClint not defending, but the internet has turned niggas into haters and quasi-hipster dickriders. i come to posts and see seas of hate without anything constructive, this site has turned into c-sections full of hate, and hipster shit (he was better b4 he started making money) just had to say my piece for once

    @marty mcfly no doubt, props for being one of the few that buys and feeds the industry. but to buy then talk about the fakeness seems counter productive, no?

  35. HUGO BAWSSSE!

  36. @marty mcfly- well u lost on the kkk comment, i hope u were kidding. my sarcasm radar doesnt work too well on words, hard to gauge the tone..lol

  37. IF a artist is real or fake if the music is good ill play it from time to time but id prefer the artist be who they say they are or were.

  38. Ross is proof that you need no talent whatsoever to be big(no pun) in Rap today…..NO TALENT.

  39. @rosssucksandsodoyou Waka Flacka Flame, Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, Birdman etc. are much less talented than Ross. Ross has bars nigga. Them niggas don’t.

  40. @Young Stereotype aka Lil Cliche
    thanks for the laugh, that shit was too much!

    1. john wayne wasn’t ever a fucking rogue cowboy, does that mean we should boycott his movies and hate on him? no. he’s an american icon and a great actor/director. just because rick ross doesn’t live what he raps doesn’t mean we should enjoy it. yes, hip hop started out being about credibility and repping your block, but times have changed and hip hop is targeted to different audiences now. i enjoy more meaningful rap than i enjoy rick ross but i cant hate on a dude who was running the game like carl lewis last summer.

    bottom line: just enjoy music and have fun. life’s too short to be hating on artists who are working to make the people happy.

  41. wait wait who says we ALL are

  42. ^^^^Agreed,all of those “rappers” are’nt talented either but ross raps about the same thing on every song,he isnt lyrical at all.

    selling drugs,smoking weed,drinking @ tha club,bitches,diamonds,mafia lingo,cars…what else is there right?

  43. It’s shocking to me how many people are afraid to just admit that Rick Ross is musically talented… and THAT is why people like him. The man makes Hollywood music… he has vision… he cares about the final product and puts out quality songs. He grinds hard and tried to stretch the limit of what else is already out there. Ross is a champ

  44. Oh and to all you lames who are going to be like “LOL he just pickz good beats!!” Well if it’s so fuckin easy… why doesn’t Ace Hood just “pick some good beats” and get famous? It’s not that easy. You gotta have a vision for good music

  45. @ Young Stereotype

    Ayo the god responded to you nahmeans!

    Ayo whattup this Big Ghost WhoDeini the Don namsayin! Namsayin ignore the counterfeit niggas usin a nigga name. Niggas is fugazi nahmeans. Word. Ayo peace to that nigga Young Stereotype nahmeans. Ayo the god feel blessed n alla that yo. Ayo the god been havin a marvelous week n alla that nahmeans. A nigga honored n shit that first off the nigga Preem gave a nigga the nod for best album of the last 100 years n shit. Then second of all the gods publicist n managers n shit been blowin up a nigga phone talkin bout ayo Tony ey’ since you done came down from the mountaintops where a nigga throne reside to be one wit ya peoples there been a major spike in a nigga album sales nahmeans. Word yo. Yalls already know that the god been mingling n mixin wit yalls little internet niggas via this blog shit. But yo a nigga sales for the Apollo Kids joint seen a recent 17% increase! Word bond! Meaning 17% more niggas bought my shit this week than there was niggas buyin my shit the week previous nahmeans. Ayo approximately 34 niggas bought a nigga album this week nahmeans! Now bein that a nigga gettin roughly half a point on each joint. And bein that the retail price on the god album is somewheres around 10 and 14 dollars…that mean the god makin close to 78 cents per album nahmean. But yo ya gotta minus what a nigga gotta break off for the accountants n lawyers n managers n shit. But yalls multiply that net amount by the total number of sales n yo the nigga lookin at about I dunno 20 Gs n shit nahmeans! Word. Ayo n third of all now the little internet nigga Lil Cliche done built a temple of worship for a nigga namsayin. Word. Ayo a nigga jus feel blessed n shit namsayin. Ayo a nigga feel like he wanna donate the proceeds from a nigga album to niggas in the world that need that shit more than the god namsayin. Ayo a nigga wanna free Tibet nahmeans. Word yo. The nigga Bill O’Reilly be thinkin niggas is stupid n jus wanna cop gear n jewels n fuck broads n pop gats off namsayin. Word yo a nigga jus tryna show White America that niggas got intelligent agendas namsayin. A nigga wanna change the world son. Nahmeans. Ayo a nigga wanna bring down the Berlin wall namhmean. The god wanna help endangered species animals nahmean. A nigga wanna save the unicorns! Ayo a nigga wanna put a end to poverty in the hood n build temples of worship for the god namhmeans. Ayo the god jus wanna give back to the people. Word yo a nigga just seen a golden butterfly emerge from his Raspberry Peach Snapple nahmeans. Ayo the butterfly shed a tear when the god wrote that nahmeans. Thats my word! A nigga gettin emotional n shit. Ayo but listen the god need go flip his omelet. Imma holla at yalls later.
    Aight peace.

    BIG GHOSTFACE said this on January 11th, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    WE EAT WHOLE TREES NIGGA!

  46. We’re not

    /article

  47. YUMMY SAWSSSE!

  48. can someone post the article in the comments. my school blocks xxlmag.com for some reason smh

  49. @ Cool Breeze
    Sure. Here ya go. Bueller.

    Hey this is out of hand once you consider just how conspicuous the ambiguity or morals that percepts what has accustomed us to the following intergers. Do you know how you know the forcibility of the claims that convey the value of one Rawse is conceivable of the moment in which the bellifying moments taunt the caricature pertaining?

    Douche douche douche douche…….douche douche douche.

    This is Bueller. But alas as I wax poetics given the virtues of Ross’ presence in this gargantuan of decpeticors is propulsed by the negative connotations given by the sans serif effervescence of the “hestus vida corpus” of said indivduality it becomes evident. We like Ross.

    By Meka

  50. ^^^ WHAT?

  51. I’m fucking dying at Meka’s revision.

  52. Don’t forget to FLAWSSE!
    But seriously he has improved lyrically over the years, but you can only enjoy his “Maybach music” if you are stinking rich, do a lot of coke, or are seriously drunk (or a combination of all three).

    That is all.

  53. YO SHUT THE FUCK UP! Nobody cares you some faggot ass niggas blogging. You’re “infuriated” with Rick Ross, nigga please. Stop being bitches and getting mad and hating. Ya’ll make me fucking sick trying to be the Pitchfork of Hip-Hop. You’re a bunch of shitty cunts, and no one cares.

  54. By the way I think you fucking cunts should take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself, “what makes me so special?”. Because I have your answer motherfuckers! You’re nobodies man! Fuck you and the painted horses you faggits rode in on! I’m so “infuriated” I can scream! You guys can suck on my fat cock man!

  55. Oh yeah, and for the last time. Blow me.

  56. @ Meka now that ive done my research on what the fuck you just said , it was pretty funny.

  57. By my last comment, I mean sensually, like a real man. Put some feeling into it. Any further replies under this name will be by an impostor! Fuck! I’m so “infuriated”!

  58. @ Light bulb moment

    Thank you. Or as the hindus say NAMASTE. My ability to dole out proverbial high caliber big words is daunting to say the least. More impressive is my ability to completely mangle the english language and misappropriate said big words at my dispense. In short, I sound like a fucking idiot. Coupled with the fact that I act like a total douche, make very stupid points, and am forceptively wrong in every regard possible most times, I’m better off waxing poetics. Late? Pardon me? Bueller?

  59. Ayo I just looked up that Odd Future shit. WTF? These niggas loony den a muthafucka! lol Apparently they hate 2Dopeboyz….and Steve Harvey for sum reason. These just mite be the dudes that come on here, jack a nigga name and write homo shit. Like BIG GHOSTFACE said I ain’t got no problem with rainbow niggas, but you know lol

  60. loool@meka

  61. Post my shit, faggots.

  62. I was hoping the lead single was gonna be one of the q-tip or pete rock produced tracks, but I think H.A.M. was pretty fucking dope. Let’s also not forget Lex Luger also helped produce See me now which is a FUCKING JAM!

  63. HoesOnMyDickCuzILookLikeKenMasters

    I think you just uncovered the conspiracy.
    Isn’t a lot of Odd Future just weirdo 17 year old black nazi nerds? And they have plenty of hate for 2Dopeboyz in their songs.
    It’d make sense I suppose…
    Oh and Rick Ross seriously sucks dick. He has a good ear for beats? It must not be very difficult when all your beats on a CD sound the same and your target market are ignoramus who want to be Rick Ross.

  64. Cunning Linguists said it best: Amerika loves gangstas.

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