Video: Rick Ross f. Ne-Yo, “Boss Lady”
Dudes are still mad at Rick Ross for his corrections officer past and the whole corny story he made up about being Felipe Calderon’s number one public enemy or whatever. But you may note that he has been making songs about chicks exclusively for a hot minute, and if his videos are any indication, all he ever does is kick it in tropical climates and drink frosty beverages while wearing island-colored Polos, so how can you really be mad at that? This dude is becoming fucking Air Supply! He is rapping about taking his woman parasailing! HE IS ON A JET SKI! In “Boss Lady” he appears to be somewhere like Cyprus or Jamaica—indeed he includes the hilarious/stupid line Your man a batty boy/ What de bumbaclaat in bad patois and it makes us like him even more. This video sparked a big office Rick Ross discussion in which Sam posited that Ross holds a record for “most animal appearances ever in rap videos” and Felipe informed us, “When I interviewed him in 2007, he told me he ate chicken and waffles every single day.” Respect this man.
Rick Ross f. Sleepy Brown, “Neverland” MP3
Honestly, we expected this from Kellz, but Rawse and Sleepy Brown took it there first: They turned the phrase/concept “Neverland Ranch” into a prurient sexual metaphor, promising the ultimate in bedroom dream fulfilment over a sample from the beginning of “P.Y.T.” It leaves you kind of speechless. Alternately, if Architectural Digest was wondering what Rick Ross’s personal Neverland Ranch is like, his hilarious ad-libs spell it out: “15 rooms, 12 baths, eight garages.” Rawse: there’s just so much more to love!
Download: Rick Ross f. Sleepy Brown, “Neverland”
Video: Birdman f. Lil Wayne, Rick Ross + Young Jeezy, “Always Strapped” Remix
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Yesterday we lamented the lack of Jeezy’s “Always Strapped” freestyle on the remix of said song, and what do you know! Either Baby is refreshing The FADER every 15 seconds and used his considerable wealth to shoot a last minute video, or he knew that shit was just undeniable.
Freeload: Ace Boon Coon f. Rick Ross & Young Dro, “Fruity (Got Me Gone)”
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As of late, Ace Boon Coon’s “Fruity” has transformed more than a few Atlanta night spots into alternate shooting locations for “Thriller,” smoke seemingly emanating from the walls, party goers wandering around the club zombiefied. Over a beat that sounds like a spaceship’s doors opening to dock a scout ship, Ricky disses British cigarettes and to our surprise, affirms a love of vegetables. But when Dro says, “Stupid stupid stupid, fruity fruity fruity,” is he talking about weed or is that just his swag? Or is it both? Either way, that is how you start off a verse ladies and gentlemen.
Download: Ace Boon Coon f. Rick Ross & Young Dro, “Fruity (Got Me Gone)”
Video: Rick Ross f. The-Dream, “All I Really Want”
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So many words are TV-censored in this video we encourage using it like a form of mad-libs, saying your own absurd and not necessarily rhyming word to create an entirely new song. Feel free not to make it about Rick Ross’s corrections officer past, because that story is getting really boring, BFD. Besides, all of Ross’s new songs are about chicks, and in this video he is like, smelling flowers and walking around with The-Dream eating fruit in the street of Medellin, Columbia. How can you be mad at that?
Freeload: Red Cafe f. The 2009 Hot 97 All-Stars, “Hottest In The Hood (Remix)”
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Everyone on this song has made individual songs that we’ve jammed, all probably in the last week alone, or maybe we’re just overlooking our undying allegiance to DJ Enuff’s “Rush Hour,” but holy shit, Loso is on fire right now.
Download: Red Cafe feat. Jadakiss, Fabolous, Rick Ross, Diddy & OJ Da Juiceman, “Hottest In The Hood (Remix)”
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posted on Apr 29, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Diddy, Fabolous, freeload, hip hop, Jadakiss, OJ da Juiceman, Red Cafe, Rick Ross
Freeload: Rick Ross f. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T-Pain, “Maybach Music 2″
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This song literally starts exactly like the Berlitz French tape that’s been stuck in the office jambox for the last year—soft strings, tumbling keys, inviting sax— only instead of learning how to find a bathroom we learn that Ross, Yeezy, Weezy and T-Pain still make other people sound super boring. The irony being that we already knew that and still don’t know how to poop in France.
Download: Rick Ross f. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T-Pain, “Maybach Music 2″
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posted on Apr 9, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags freeload, hip hop, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T-Pain
Freeload: Rick Ross f. Nas, “Usual Suspects”
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Rick Ross has some sort of supernatural magnet heart that sucks producers’ best beats out of their computers. If you are not psyched about Bigger Deeper Than Rap you are trying too hard. It’s like Oprah not liking James Frey after he came clean except A Million Little Pieces was mediocre to begin with and Ross makes jams. Be mad about the lying in general if you want, but have you heard the songs coming on this album? Oof. Here’s another one. And we’re not going to spend one second trying to figure out if Ross is being clever by invoking a movie constructed entirely around an elaborate lie because this just makes us want to drink pina coladas out of six foot tall naked lady mugs and pretend we are rich.
Download: Rick Ross f. Nas, “Usual Suspects”
Freeload: Rick Ross f. The-Dream, “I Really Want”
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Everybody (50 Cent) has been beating up on Ricky Ross for being a former C.O. lately but we got love for the dude: we could frankly care less if he was a banana slug in a past life as long as he’s making jams. Plus, lately he’s been on this whole “treating women awesome” storytelling tip in his rapping. Rick Ross reinvented as modern day Miami Don Juan? We’ll take it. (And listen to it, when he performs at the FADER Fort.) Tricky Stewart produced this one. We will be bumping it in our rental convertible when we head down to Austin, Texas next week.
The Future of Magazines: Music Videos!
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We try to avoid the subject around here out of sensitivity, but the magazine business is, as most of you know, going through it’s ugly period right now. Hopefully, it will soon get a new haircut, drop the winter flab and refill the wardrobe to the total devastation of all those who left it for seemingly hotter prospects. In the meantime, we have The-Dream, Ludacris, Loso, Ross and Santana propping up some esteemed titles with the video for Dream’s “Rockin’ That Shit.” His album, Love vs. Money, comes out tomorrow, but you can preview the whole thing right here on TheFADER.com.
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posted on Mar 9, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Fabolous, hip hop, Juelz Santana, Ludacris, R&B, Rick Ross, The-Dream
