Rick Ross - Port Of Miami

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a man who knows what he likes

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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