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May 21, 2012
Q&A: Stalley On Getting To New York And Hooking Up With Rick Ross
Humility is a rare trait—especially among rappers, who tend to preen and bop about like fighters convincing boxing promoters that they are in their prime. Stalley, however, subscribes to a different G code. Perhaps it's his humble beginnings in a small town outside of Cleveland, where a blue- ... More >>
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May 16, 2012
El-P And Killer Mike Talk Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Anger As A Positive Force, And The Unlucky Fate Of Their Favorite HBO Shows
A few drinks into my conversation with Mike and El-P about their new collaboration R.A.P. Music (Williams Street), the tone shifted, as it tends to under the influence of multiple makeshift White Russians. EL-P's drink-ordering became relentlessly efficient. Things became a little more candid. The c ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
The Top Six Contenders For 2012's Song Of The Summer
Now that the calendar has flipped to May, and the schedules for the area's big sheds have been announced, and the Hot 97 Summer Jam lineup is on the verge of being made public, it's time to think of other musical concerns related to the year's hottest months. Today, let's wonder about what song will ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Hip-Hop's 25 Best Weed Songs
In honor of today being 4/20—every smoker's favorite day of the year—SOTC has compiled the 25 Best Rap Songs relating to weed. Though some may be more about bud than others, all are guaranteed to make your high all the more enjoyable. Be forewarned, though... this list doesn't have any h ... More >>
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March 13, 2012
Live: Stalley's New Mixtape Gets Lost In The Clutter At The Beats By Dre Store
Stalley (Savage Journey To The American Dream listening session) Beats By Dr. Dre store Monday, March 12 Better than: Buying a pair of $400 headphones. Welcome to the Rick Ross and Stalley bobblehead show, in town for one night only. That, effectively, went down last night at Soho's Beats By Dr. D ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 7, 2012
WHO’S THE BAWSE?
Rick Ross rumbles through  Hammerstein Ballroom
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Rick Ross Gets Larger Than Life On Rich Forever
When will Rick Ross stop improving? All bets are currently off, because right now—as in right this very moment, in the immediate aftermath of Rich Forever—Rick Ross is the best rapper alive. Not too long ago, he was arguably the worst. Lots of other rappers have made The Leap from ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
Pill
When will Rick Ross stop improving? All bets are currently off, because right now—as in right this very moment, in the immediate aftermath of Rich Forever—Rick Ross is the best rapper alive. Not too long ago, he was arguably the worst. Lots of other rappers have made The Leap from ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 9, 2011
Mobb Deep
When will Rick Ross stop improving? All bets are currently off, because right now—as in right this very moment, in the immediate aftermath of Rich Forever—Rick Ross is the best rapper alive. Not too long ago, he was arguably the worst. Lots of other rappers have made The Leap from ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Rick Ross Now Headlining This Thursday's Big Vice Party
Yes, the downer&b outfit The Weeknd pulled out of this Thursday's Full Frontal Vice party (and subsequently sulked about it because being popular is hard, you guys), but that doesn't mean the festivities have been called off—in fact, it's still on Skylight One Hanson's calendar, and now ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Live: Lil Wayne Is The Master Of Ceremonies In New Jersey
Lil Wayne w/Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, Lloyd PNC Bank Arts Center Tuesday, July 26 Better than: Sorry For The Wait. Before Lil Wayne took the stage last night at the PNC Bank Arts Center, the PA was playing cuts from Sorry For The Wait, the stopgap mixtape released as an apologia ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Scientologist Giovanni Ribisi to Play David Koresh: Why There's a Precedent for a Scientology-Branch Davidian Connection
Koresh, left, to be played by RibisiSo I'm late to this story, but I only found out recently that Giovanni Ribisi is portraying David Koresh in a movie about the 1993 Waco raid that is scheduled to come out later this year. (The movie will also reportedly star Adrien Brody, Kurt Russell, John ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Live: Rick Ross Lives Out His Dreams At Summer Jam
Hot 97 Summer Jam New Meadowlands Stadium Sunday, June 5 Better than: Sitting at home and moping like 50 Cent. Rick Ross closed out Summer Jam. Just so there's no revisionist history here, let's remember how incredible that statement is. Three years ago, Ross was the punching bag of hip-h ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Download Fear of God, the New Mixtape From the Clipse's Pusha T
One of the happiest of the many stories to get lost in the maelstrom that was Kanye West's 2010 was the rehabilitation of Pusha T, perhaps the single most critically beloved and commercially unsuccessful rapper of the last five years. The Clipse, his duo with his brother Malice, had sat on th ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Download A Nicki Minaj-Centric Version Of Kanye West's "Monster" With Kanye West Conveniently Removed
As we're now officially in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's backlash stage -- a function of both ambient critical regret and the super-queasy misogyny (and alleged Dr. Dog plagiarism) of the official "Monster" video -- perhaps its time to sidestep the question of whether you can separate K ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: Alley Boy and Young Dro, Trae, Husalah, and More
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: unheralded regional rap.
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December 22, 2010
Zach Baron's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Rich aliens, rich alienation. Still via connect.in.comWith sincere apologies to Chuck Eddy, my two favorite records of the year also produced my two favorite singles: funny how that happens. And though ten songs increasingly feels like about forty too few, especially when Dr. Luke is working, ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
The Many Disturbing Faces of a Shirtless Rick Ross
More than anyone else, producer Lex Luger has had rap's summer on lock. His two booming, window-rattling tracks on Rick Ross's Teflon Don--"MC Hammer" and "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)"--have been inescapable, from cars to picnics to other rappers, who have repeatedly borrowed both beats. Some ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Last Night: Diddy Dirty Money and Rick Ross Beat Back the Rain at Governors Island
Power 105 Power Live, Featuring Rick Ross and Diddy Governors Island Sunday, August 22 The weather on Sunday in advance of Power 105's Power Live concert at Governors Island was fitting, considering its star attraction. There was a thick, slowing dampness in New York City yesterday--not so m ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Week In Review: Aw Dude, You Missed It
Unfortunately, this just isn't fun anymore. Pic by Sam Horine.It's Friday the 13th, and if you're as superstitious as we are here at SOTC, you'll stay away from the outside world altogether. Lucky for you, though, we've put together a pretty awesome rundown of dance parties to visit this week ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Rick Ross May Have Just Responded to Young Jeezy (Who Also Put Out A Mixtape Today)
Though Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy is playing it ultra cool regarding "Death Before Dishonor," the "B.M.F."-checking freestyle he released a couple days ago, it seems pretty clear the song was aimed at Rick Ross. (His denial, at MTV, is less than convincing: "That's for anybody. I got n---as i ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Watch Erykah Badu and Rick Ross Assassinate Someone in the "Window Seat Part II/Turn Me Away (Get MuNNy)" Video
Is there an odder couple in rap currently than Miami fantasist Rick Ross and the neo-soul nudist Erykah Badu? Their work together so far--"Maybach Music III," off Ross's Teflon Don, and this new "Window Seat" remix--has zeroed in on perhaps the one thing these two disparate characters have in comm ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Rick Ross Momentarily Thinks He's Eminem, Is Quickly Disabused
Rap fans are now (perhaps overly) familiar with the plastic nature of reality as it appears to Miami rapper Rick Ross. So while Ross spent yesterday afternoon and evening gleefully proclaiming he had his fourth #1 record, it didn't necessarily mean anything but that he wanted it to be his fourth ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Who Does Rick Ross Think He Is, Exactly?
The rapper Rick Ross, born William Leonard Roberts II, is currently being sued by the living, breathing drug boss--"Freeway" Ricky Ross--from whom he stole his stage name. On his new Teflon Don--another nickname borrowed, without consent, from John Gotti--Ross has a song called "MC Hammer," o ... More >>
Music
July 20, 2010
Rick Ross's Alternate Reality
More transcendent absurdity from Miami's most improved rapper
Blogs
July 16, 2010
Rick Ross' New Teflon Don Is Streaming In Full On His MySpace
New York rap fans have a very complicated relationship with Rick Ross, due to the Southern thing, the prison-guard thing, the he-once-released-a-song-called-"Money Make Me Come" thing. During Diddy's 92Y Tribeca talk a couple weeks back host Peter Rosenberg abruptly started praising Ross to t ... More >>
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May 16, 2010
A 48-Word Review of 48 Hour Magazine
48 Hour Magazine's Issue Zero, an experiment, was conceived by a small team of editors in San Francisco. One day, they announced the theme of the book -- Hustle -- and waited as 1,500 submissions poured in to team headquarters at the Mother Jones office, in Rolling Stone's former space. Seven ... More >>
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October 20, 2009
The Fader Announces Saturday Night's CMJ Fader Fort Lineup
RSVP here, get there early, buy some Levis, and hope that the "special guests" aren't, like, Rick Ross and Creed.
Blogs
August 18, 2009
Overheard in Brooklyn: Rick Ross "Yo Momma" Jokes
High-school-age kid, yelling at his 10 friends: "Yo momma so fat she got Rick Ross's belly." One of those ten friends: "Yo momma so gross she got Rick Ross's beard!" One of the other nine: "Yo momma so nasty, she got Rick Ross's boobs!" Everyone else: "DAAAYYYMMNNN!" --Broadway Junction subway ... More >>
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May 12, 2009
Even Rick Ross's Sunglasses Are Fake
Louis Vuitton has now stepped into the ongoing battle between Rick Ross and reality, noting that in addition to his fabricated past as a drug smuggler and a dater-of-women-who-weren't-porn-stars, he also has no qualms about wearing designer knockoffs on the cover of national magazines. At this point ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2009
Rick Ross Paints Portraits
Rick Ross on his Columbia sojourn with The-Dream, where the two went to shoot the video for "All I Really Want," presented without further comment. Alright, one comment: The way this man says the word "hills" is a beautiful thing. "We all board the plane, go to Medellin, you feel me? We touch dow ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2009
When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Clipse Edition
Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>
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April 28, 2009
On Red Cafe's "Hottest in the Hood" Remix, Featuring Jadakiss, Rick Ross, Fabolous, and OJ Da Juiceman
Song via the NMC Red Cafe, who apparently just signed to Bad Boy, finally has a decent song on his hands--the original version of "Hottest in the Hood" has been getting burn for what at least seems like months on HOT97, and this remix will definitely get run back on-air four or five hundred times ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2009
Rick Ross Now Just Baldly Conducting a Funeral for 50 Cent, Who's Not Dead
The newest chapter of an ever more biblical 50 Cent Vs. Rick Ross battle, assiduously chronicled in great depth last week by Erik Parker? Acting out your enemy's funeral, complete with sobering exterior shots of "Jay's Funeral Home," a fake pastor, whole elegant wreaths of flowers, a sepia-ton ... More >>
Music
April 15, 2009
The New Rap Battle: 50 Cent Vs. Rick Ross
Building a new paradigm with fewer rhymes and more costumes
Blogs
April 15, 2009
This Week's Voice: Superdrag, Rap Beef, Juan MacLean, State of Play, Guy Maddin, 'Younger Than Jesus', and More
In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on Superdrag's snarling, ferocious comeback, spiritual awakening notwithstanding. Erik Parker on rap battles, circa 2009, starring 50 Cent and Rick Ross. Plus Ben Detrick comes through with a particularly formidable catalog of spectacular rap ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2009
"They Put on Wigs, They Buy Dildos, They Put It in They Mouth"
"That's stuff we would have done in middle school. When you're dealing with degenerates on this level, it's something you have to deal with. Did we think it was a threat to Khaled's mother? Of course not. That's what these dudes do: They put on wigs, they buy dildos, they put it in they mouth, they ... More >>
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April 14, 2009
This Week in the Voice
50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2009
This Enormously Disturbing, Eyeball-Lacerating 50 Cent-Narrated Sex Tape Is, Sadly, Not the Only One of Its Kind
Screenshot via 2DopeBoyz, where they've posted the whole sorry tape, which is where we reluctantly draw the line Different sex tape entirely--didn't Cam look young in '02? So the above is nominally 50 Cent's revenge on Rick Ross for a crime whose origins are already murky at best--Ross made fun of ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2009
On Rick Ross's Terrible 50 Cent Diss "Kiss My Pinky Ring, Curly"
Didn't Cam'ron already prove that saying a rapper looks like a random animal isn't exactly the way to end someone's career? Except for maybe your own? I swear, Rick Ross says the word "monkey" 50 times in two minutes here. Plus: "You shoulda fucked her"? 50 Cent should've fucked Rick Ross's baby's ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2009
50 Cent Is Still Pretty Good At Embarrassing Other Rappers
While 50 Cent's sneering, self-righteous, conniving persona basically keeps him from making good music at all these days, he's still perfectly suited to go in on another rapper. And so: "Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)." Making fun of Rick Ross for being a correctional officer is a little 2008, ma ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2008
Things I Like About Rick Ross's Trilla
While 50 Cent's sneering, self-righteous, conniving persona basically keeps him from making good music at all these days, he's still perfectly suited to go in on another rapper. And so: "Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)." Making fun of Rick Ross for being a correctional officer is a little 2008, ma ... More >>
Music
March 11, 2008
Rick Ross Rolls
Continuing his pleasantly, audaciously inept hustle
Blogs
January 17, 2008
Rick Ross Buries the All-Star Remix
Continuing his pleasantly, audaciously inept hustle
News
October 16, 2007
Secret Agent Schmuck
The spooky truth behind the media's favorite 'spy'
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October 9, 2006
A For-the-Ladies Slow-Jam Report Card
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September 12, 2006
The New Jay-Z Album: A Bad Idea?
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Music
August 1, 2006
Welcome to Florida. Here's Some Cocaine.
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May 18, 2006
Jay-Z is Rapping Again
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