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Rick Ross isn’t even a week removed from the release of his latest LP Port of Miami 2 and though it’s an exceptional piece of work more people are speaking his name due to what Nicki Minaj had to say about The Bawse on Joe Budden’s podcast.
Still Ross remains unbothered by petty things and swung through The Breakfast Club where he addressed the situation while keeping things diplomatic and positive. Aside from touching on past and current beefs, Ross also confirmed some interesting things about his street life before the music and why Pusha T’s verse didn’t make the much talked about “Maybach Music VI.”
Here are the 8 things we learned from Rick Ross on The Breakfast Club.
1. Read What?
Ross admits that even though he co-wrote his own memoir Hurricanes, he never actually read it. He is ready to make it into a movie though. He should at least skim through it. Just sayin.’
2. Chart Topper Before Rap
Ross says he was number 3 of 40 of un-indicted co-conspirators that authorities were searching for at one point. What saved him was that the two people who were snitching only knew him as “Fat Boy” because he wasn’t from the city whose authorities were locking people up.
3. Deeper Than Rap
Ross says before he blew up and “before I even knew what 16 bars was I was sleeping on the floor of Eric Sermon’s basement listening to him produce records, loop records… it’s a good chance I know more about EPMD, Eric B and Rakim than a New York MC.”
4. T.I. Beef
Ross confirms that he was at one time beefing with T.I. when he came into the game but admits that it wasn’t over anything serious. “I had never really met Tip but I just knew that was the position I wanted. That’s why if anybody wanna come in the game and if they wanna step on Rozay toes I most definitely understand your point of view. But you’d better be prepared, boi.” As for why they were beefing it was because Kanye gave T.I. a beat that Ross wanted which eventually became Tip’s “Look What I Got.”
5. Big Paper
Ross remembers not spending any of his music money the first year he got in the game because he wanted to see how it stacked up. After some of his hometown homies began getting on him for living it up without actually owning big things, Ross was inspired to begin investing in Wing Stops and real estate and whatnot.
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6. Pusha T
Speaking on Pusha T’s verse in which he took shots at Drizzy disappearing from the Lil Wayne featured “Maybach Music VI,” Ross says Pusha’s verse got cut because he was debating “the bigger picture” and whether “is this gonna help bring them together for the bigger cause making bigger moves or was this gonna help feed the bullsh*t.” So he kept Weezy’s verse because “I sent it to Wayne first.” He does say both of them signed off on the record after they heard it, but still decided to go with just Wayne’s verse. As for who leaked Pusha’s bars, he doesn’t know but doesn’t think it was Pusha himself.
7. Birdman
Asked whether he ever met with Birdman after the “Idols Become Rivals” record he dropped, Ross says he hasn’t and that the record was just him “tugging his shirt” due to the love and respect he has for Wayne and Drake.
8. Nicki Minaj
As for where his relationship with Nicki Minaj might’ve went sour, Ross says “She was a huge talent but she was playing a very important position at the time. She was in-between Meek and Drake at the time and what she don’t know and she may not understand coming from a big homie like myself, playing that position, that was a very fragile role and it would be very easy to put that responsibility on her. But that ain’t what I try to make it to but most definitely when I seen it go sour it would be easy to assume she may have had something to do with that.” He does say he’s happy to see her move forward though.
