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This week the 400 pound chicken wing dumpster with a beard known as Rick Ross stepped in fresh shit when someone with a sense of decency finally heard the words he raps on "U.O.E.N.O." and exposed them to light. In the song Ross drugs a woman's champagne and has his way with her while "she ain't eve ... More >>

Rockie Fresh's Electric Highway: What Kid Cudi Wished His Last Album Sounded Like

Better Than: Waiting until Jan. 21 Rick Ross and his Maybach Music Group (MMG) cadre of artists have perfected a sonic and aesthetic blueprint over the past two years. Unapologetically ostentatious lyrics, pounding basslines and of course, Jessica Gomez's deliciously sexy "Mmmmmaybach Music" drop; ... More >>

Maybach Music Group's Rockie Fresh on Why He Chose Rick Ross Over Diddy and the Violence In His Hometown of Chicago

Even though he wasn't born until the decade after Back to the Future came out, Rockie Fresh still rocks a DeLorean in his videos and even sports a pair of Nike Air Mags AKA the Marty McFlys. Fitting considering he acts much more maturely than his 21 years of age would have you believe. His rhymes a ... More >>

D.C.’s Finest

Get cozy with Maybach Music’s resident poet

The Maybach Difference: How Wale, Meek Mill, and Rick Ross Overcame Early Failure To Find Success

With all the limitations facing today's music industry, it's rare that any artist gets a second chance. This is especially true in the ever-changing world of hip-hop where if an artist, especially on a major label, doesn't immediately finding an audience, they're soon shuffled back into the over-sat ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/14/12

Here are the best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Vice City

Rick Ross and his Maybach Music crew take Manhattan

Last night: Meek Mill Previews Dreams & Nightmares

Rappers At Award Shows: A History Of Violence

This past weekend saw Rick Ross and Young Jeezy's long-simmering beef boiling over into fisticuffs as the rappers and their entourages went at each other at the BET Hip-Hop Honors Awards (and possibly broke a very expensive mirror in the process). That squabble wasn't a one-off though! Here's a prim ... More >>

MUENSTER MASH

Action Bronson cooks up fun

Rick Ross Falls Back To Earth On God Forgives, I Don't

Rick Ross is a smart man. He's smarter than me, and probably smarter than you. He went from one of the most laughable men in rap music to one of the most powerful and respected, and he did it simply by betting on himself—or by betting on an imagined version of himself. More specifically, Rick ... More >>

The Top 3.5 Hip-Hop Songs Of The Week

The worst result of 21st-century technological advances, at least from a musical point of view, is the dual proliferation of DIY recording equipment and social media, allowing millions of—notice the quotation marks—"musicians" to flood inboxes, festival backpacks, Facebook timelines and ... More >>

Q&A: Dom Kennedy On The Yellow Album, Maybach Music Group Rumors, And Funkmaster Flex's Tupac Comments

Over the last few years, hip-hop artists who grew up in the hood but wanted to go beyond clichéd gangsterisms have been on the rise—Kendrick Lamar, Curren$y, A$AP Rocky, Big K.R.I.T. Hailing from Los Angeles's Leimert Park neighborhood is Dom Kennedy, another subscriber to the school of thoug ... More >>

Live: Rick Ross And His Crew Pack The Backyard At Alife

Alife Backyard Sessions: Maybach Music Group's Self Made 2 with Rick Ross, Stalley, Wale, O Alife Tuesday, June 26 Better than: Listening to Funkmaster Flex jock Ross in the pre-performance interview. Rick Ross and Co. might seem too big for the narrow streets of the Lower East Side—and espe ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

WHO’S THE BAWSE?

Rick Ross rumbles through 
Hammerstein Ballroom

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Zach Baron's Top 10 Singles of 2010

Rich aliens, rich alienation. Still via connect.in.com​With 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Rick Ross's Alternate Reality

More transcendent absurdity from Miami's most improved rapper

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The New Rap Battle: 50 Cent Vs. Rick Ross

Building a new paradigm with fewer rhymes and more costumes

"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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Things I Like About Rick Ross's Trilla

Rick Ross Rolls

Continuing his pleasantly, audaciously inept hustle

Rick Ross Buries the All-Star Remix

Secret Agent Schmuck

The spooky truth behind the media's favorite 'spy'

The New Jay-Z Album: A Bad Idea?

Welcome to Florida. Here's Some Cocaine.

Jay-Z is Rapping Again