Rick Ross

Reebok CEO on Rick Ross: "He Has Stupid Advisers Around Him"

It's a battle of bawses. Last month, sneaker mob Reebok killed its endorsement deal with Maybach Music Group honcho and rapper Rick Ross in the wake of his "U.O.E.N.O." rape lyrics scandal. "Reebok holds our partners to a high standard," the athletic shoe hustlers stated, "and we expect them to l ... More >>

Rick Ross's Reebok Endorsement Deal Killed Over "U.O.E.N.O." Rape Lyrics

Maybe the sneaker mob over at Reebok was just waiting for one of Rick Ross's homies to fire the first shot. So when Rocko announced that he was planning to strike the Bawse's rape lyrics ("Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know ... More >>

Rick Ross Finally Apologizes for Rape Lyrics: "One of My Biggest Mistakes and Regrets"

The Bawse says: "I apologize." And this time, he means it. After a couple of weak attempts at defending his molly sex assault verse on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." (condescendingly calling "woman ... the most precious gift known to man" and then cringe-worthily tweeting ""I dont condone rape. #BOSS"), Will ... More >>

Rick Ross's Rape Lyrics Getting Dropped From Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O"

The Bawse still got that fat shoe contract. But his molly sex assault verse is getting dropped from Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." Even though women's rights organization UltraViolet, hundreds of rape victims, and 51,000 petitioners recently demanded "Reebok drop Rick Ross for bragging about drugging and rap ... More >>

Rape Victims Demand "Reebok Drop Rick Ross for Bragging About Drugging and Raping"

Rick Ross insists the words spit on "U.O.E.N.O." ("Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it") don't have anything at all to do with drugging a woman till she passes out so he can have sex with her. But UltraViolet, "a communit ... More >>

Rick Ross's Lame Apology for Molly Sex Assault Song: "I Don't Condone Rape #BOSS"

Listen ... When Rick Ross raps, "Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it," he actually means, "We were just two consenting, not-unconscious adults, enjoying some intimacy-inducing drugs, fine champagne, and mutually enjoyable ... More >>

Rick Ross Raps About Rape, Says He Don't Rap About Rape

Rick Ross needs to Bawse up and take responsibility for his verses. But he doesn't seem ready to admit to rappin' about rape. Some guest spot lyrics on "U.O.E.N.O." from the Miami MC have got a lot of women reconsidering their love for the hefty player. But just as we saw a couple of months ago, Ro ... More >>

Jeremiah Bullfrog Stars in Rick Ross Commercial, Hosts Sunday Brunch

Jeremiah Bullfrog has a lot on his plate, but that doesn't mean the chef and food truck owner has no time for old friends -- especially when that old friend happens to be Rick Ross. The rapper recently filmed a Reebok commercial in which a chef plays a prominent role in the story line. Who bett ... More >>

Rick Ross Safe in New York City, Gets 24-Hour NYPD Protection

Of the over 8.2 million permanent inhabitants of New York City, and the nearly 51 million international and domestic tourists who visit each year, only one pinguo from Miami has around-the-clock protection from the city's finest, the NYPD. That man is Rick Ross. According to TMZ (via Hip-Hop Wi ... More >>

Rick Ross Discusses Shooting at Grammys: "We Not Here to Speculate on Any Suspects"

Dressed dapper in designer duds, a hungry Rick Ross walked the red carpet of the 55th annual Grammy Awards last night, eager to take a bite out of his competition and jump on a chartered flight back to Miami with a gold-plated gramophone under his arm for God Forgives, I Don't. Unfortunately for t ... More >>

Rick Ross Isn't Scared by Failed Assassination Attempt, Wale Says Drive-By Is No "Joke"

Rick Ross has may have a "Fuckin' Problem," but a drive-by shooting ain't one. On the same day that Funkmaster Flex debuted the MMG Kingpin's "Fuckin' Problem" freestyle, Rozay was all smiles after leaving a Beverly Hills restaurant yesterday with his head held high and puffing on a fat stogie lik ... More >>

Rick Ross Shooting: Rapper Hires 24-Hour Armed Security Team

Not long after becoming the target of a foiled drive-by murder plot, Rick Ross issued a musical warning seemingly directed at his would-be assassins: "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe." "Wishing death on you niggas, we never see eye to eye," Ross roars on the track. "Somehow I pray for you niggas at the ... More >>

Rick Ross Shooting: Police Release 911 Calls

Like a gangsta, Rick Ross has kept (mostly) silent since escaping a would-be assassin's 20-bullet barrage on Las Olas Boulevard. His only comment: A freestyle "wishing death on you niggas." Meanwhile, the City of Fort Lauderdale Police Department continues to pore over surveillance video from the ... More >>

Rick Ross's Post-Shooting Track: "Sometimes I Look in the Mirror, I Can't Believe I'm Alive"

Rozay says: "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe." Yesterday, after escaping an unknown assailant, dodging 20 bullets, and smashing up his Rolls Royce on the streets of Broward County, Rick Ross disappeared for approximately 12 hours. He couldn't be reached for comment on the shooting by TMZ, MTV, the Miam ... More >>

Rick Ross Shooting: Police Sift Though Surveillance Footage, Not Discussing Suspects

Who shot at Rick Ross? Police are still investigating the drive-by shooting that nearly cost Ross and girlfriend Shateria L. Moragne-el their lives early Monday morning in Fort Lauderdale, sifting through video surveillance footage from a nearby building in an effort to identify the perpetrator--or ... More >>

Did Rick Ross Just Crash His Rolls-Royce In Fort Lauderdale After Getting Shot At? UPDATE

This much, at least, is clear: Around 5 a.m. this morning, someone opened fire on a Rolls -Royce on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. More than a dozen shots were fired, and the Rolls ended up careening into the front of a restaurant.Now for the real question: Was Rick Ross in the car? Witnesse ... More >>

Rick Ross Shooting: A Twitter Timeline

Forget a big booty ho. All Rick Ross wants for his birthday are some goddamn answers. The b-day Bawse -- Ross turns 37 today -- and an unidentified female companion were allegedly heading east on Las Olas Boulevard at around 5 a.m. this morning near 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, when an assailan ... More >>

Rick Ross Shooting: Police Confirm Passenger Was Girlfriend Shateria L. Moragne-el

Unknown gunmen blasted at the Bawse. And he crashed his Rolls. As Crossfade already noted, Rick Ross celebrated his birthday last night at South Beach nightlub LIV and then he took the party to Fort Lauderdale's Floridian Restaurant, where he became the target of an apparent assassination attempt. ... More >>

50 Cent Calls Rick Ross a "Fat Boy," Says Early-Morning Shooting "Looks Staged"

Case of the Mondays? At least you're not being ridiculed by 50 Cent on social media for crashing a $300,000 Rolls Royce into a building on your birthday after a failed attempt on your life. The G-Unit capo thinks that Rick Ross' early-morning brush with death was little more than a publicity stu ... More >>

Rick Ross's Birthday Affair at LIV Miami, Turning 37 Like a Motherf#$%ing Bawse

Rick Ross is having a party! The Grammy-nominated Maybach Music Group guru and Wingstop franchisee will attend Sunday service at LIV, celebrating his 37th birthday with a Bawse party. Unlike normal folks' birthdays, where overindulging on ice-cream cake and Wild Turkey is both the highlight and ... More >>

Freeway Ricky Ross vs. Rick Ross: Trial Date Set in Ongoing Trademark Infringement Fight

Long before the rapper Rick Ross allegedly started "selling dope straight off the iPhone," the drug dealer Ricky Donnell Ross, a man the Wall Street Journal called "a mastermind of the crack-cocaine trade," was pushing 100 kilos of Nicaraguan blow per day and building a $600 million criminal empire ... More >>

Rick Ross Joining Cast of Starz's Magic City, Becoming Bawse TV Actor

Is Rick Ross a gangsta? Well, he'll be playing one on cable television. An omnivorous student of gangland myths, the larger-than-life rapper is finally taking his flair for the dramatic to the small screen, joining the cast of Starz's Magic City, a late-1950s crime drama set in Rozay's real-life h ... More >>

Rick Ross's BCS 2013 Afterparty at Mansion Miami: Bowlin' Like a Bawse!

Ballin' like a Bawse ... That's how Rick Ross typically spends a Monday in Miami. But tonight, big homie's gonna be bowlin' like a Bawse on South Beach, poppin' bottles and spikin' footballs in the VIP, all in honor of the BCS national championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and t ... More >>

Best Christmas Stocking Stuffers for Rappers: From Rick Ross to Kanye West

Each year 'round the holidays, Crossfade readies itself to receive an influx of letters from Miami-Dade County hip-hop heads asking the one question that plagues rap fans around the country: What should we stuff our favorite rapper's stocking with this year? Well, rather than replying to each let ... More >>

Rick Ross Threatened by Gangster Disciples in Chicago: "F#$% You ... Cut the Check"

The Bawse might not be worried. But the Chicago Police ain't takin' chances. After receiving death threats last week from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, Rick Ross rolled up to the 99 Jamz studio to shrug off any beef with the GDs as "one sucka that got a personal vendetta." B ... More >>

Rick Ross on Gangster Disciples, Canceled MMG Tour: "Never Was It Due to Any Threats"

"I'm a certified man. I am a real boss." That's the official Rick Ross response to all the suckas who think that death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples could keep the Bawse from doin' work. Last week, GDs from NC warned Rozay about exploiting the gang by using the na ... More >>

Rick Ross Gets Death Threats from Gangster Disciples, Cancels MMG Tour Dates

The Bawse is wanted. Just two days after a triumphant hometown throwdown at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Maybach Music crew, Rick Ross has received death threats from a North Carolina chapter of the Gangster Disciples, a street gang founded on Chicago's South Side in the '60s by David Barksdal ... More >>

Rick Ross's Remaining MMG Tour Canceled

The Bawse just canceled the last six shows of his MMG Tour. Earlier today, we here at Crossfade mentioned that two dates in North Carolina got nixed after Ross received death threats from Gangster Disciple members. But now representatives of Maybach Music Group tell us that all concerts till Decem ... More >>

Rick Ross and MMG Tour With Meek Mill and Wale at Fillmore Miami Beach, December 5

Rick Ross With Meek Mill and Wale Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Better Than: A Wednesday night devoted to making nonstop prank calls in which you pretend to be DJ Khaled. See also: -Becoming the Bawse: Eight-Part History of Rick Ross -Rick Ross Officially Recognized as "Bawse o ... More >>

Rick Ross's MMG Tour at the Fillmore December 5

Rick Ross Officially Recognized as "Bawse of the Year 2012"

Who's the motherfuckin' Bawse? To Crossfade, it's always been Rick Ross (government name William Leonard Roberts II), the 300-pound football-lineman-turned-corrections-officer-turned-street-rapper-turned-Maybach-mogul. He taught us to play 4-3 formation. He always emphasized the importance of hust ... More >>

Rick Ross Sued for $226,000 by Concert Promoter Over 15-Minute Show in Charlotte

Rick Ross loves chicken. In fact, homie can eat a whole bird, a couple side dishes and three pieces of pie in a single sitting, and he also owns a couple of Wingstop eateries 'round the country. So naturally, if you invite him to perform at Bojangles, there best be some mo'fucking "Famous Chicke ... More >>

Rick Ross and Jeezy Brawl at BET Awards, Smash Mirror, Get Seven Years Bad Luck

We've said it before and, goddamn it, and we'll say it again: Today's rappers are softer than baby thighs. Biggie and Pac were actual gangbangers. Ol' Dirty Bastard freebased so much crack cocaine that he changed his name from Big Baby Jesus to Dirt McGirt to Osirus and back again. And every month, ... More >>

Conquer the Mic: Freestyle Battle at Green Room September 19

Rayzor on Republicans: 'They Think Vaginas Have Secret Compartments Full of Graham Crackers to Absorb Rape Sperm'

Rayzor is the kind of comedian who doesn't suffer fools lightly. Especially not fool-ass Republicans who are contemptuous of women's rights to control their own reproductive health. "The thing I will say about those Republicans," he tells Crossfade, "is that they let us know. I just recently learne ... More >>

Gunplay 101: The Human L.A. Riot's Nine Best Tracks

See also "The Quotable Gunplay: 'Hos,' 'Pills,' and the 'Gift and Curse of Being Under Rick Ross.'" Gunplay has been a known commodity on Miami's rap scene for years thanks to his association with Rick Ross and Maybach Music Group. But only recently have mainstream audiences started warming up to ... More >>

Rick Ross Called "BS" By Freeway Ricky Ross, Still the Motherf#&king Bawse, Though

"Freeway" Ricky Ross, the reformed drug dealer who is not actually a freeway, has once again accused rap superhero Rick Ross of being a bullshit Bawse. Freeway's argument is that Rozay's rap success is entirely due to the "original" Rick Ross's notoriety as a legendary coke peddler. But it just so ... More >>

Rick Ross on Maybach Music Group: "We the Miami Heat of Hip-Hop"

Holy rolls! Rick Ross (AKA The Bawse) is gonna appear shirtless and covered in ice on the cover of this month's Rolling Stone as he continues to push God Forgives, I Don't. But thanks in part to Crossfade contributor Jesse Serwer, we don't have to wait to get inside the MMG man's massive dome. J ... More >>

Ice "Billion" Berg's KOD Strip Club Interview: "Adult Entertainment Is a Professional Sport"

See also "Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers at King of Diamonds in Miami (NSFW)." Last time we caught up with Ice "Billion" Berg about the possibility of signing with Rick Ross and Maybach Music, he was just about to drop his Strictly For The Streets 3 mixtape. That was only in Jul ... More >>

Rick Ross's God Forgives Tops Billboard 200, Outsells Bieber, Zac Brown, Others Combined

See also "Rick Ross, Big-Booty Strippers, and 3,000 Ballers at King of Diamonds in Miami (NSFW)." Rick Ross is a fucking boss. But y'all already knew. What you may not know, however, is that the Maybach Music MC outsold some of the music industry's biggest names to claim the top spot on the Billb ... More >>

Tru Story Ent, Ex-Cocaine Jackboys, Talk Doin' Business With Rick Ross and King of Diamonds

You already know Rick Ross is having his official album release party for God Forgives, I Don't at King Of Diamonds tomorrow night. But you probably don't know that two formerly felonious armed-robbing cocaine jackboys from North Miami are the promoters. Tru Story Ent's Dave and LT took the time to ... More >>

Rick Ross Signing God Forgives, I Don't, Drawing Magic Marker Bawse Beards at Best Buy in Pembroke Pines Tomorrow

See also "Rick Ross: 'All 305 Certified Ballers Will Be Present' at The Bawse's Miami Strip Club Party." Tomorrow at 5 p.m., Rick Ross will visit the Best Buy in Pembroke Pines to sign copies of God Forgives, I Don't. He did the same thing when Self Made: Vol. 2 came out last month. And it was a ... More >>

Rick Ross: "All 305 Certified Ballers Will Be Present" at The Bawse's Miami Strip Club Party

Check the contents of your ostrich-skin wallet. Along with the XXXL lambskin condom, stack of hundreds, and black AmEx, there should be your up-to-date 305 Baller Certification card. If, however, you haven't taken care of this year's dues, make sure to send that suitcase full of singles to Balle ... More >>

Watch the New Rick Ross, Maybach Music, and Self Made 2 Documentary: "We 'Bout Business"

Not only does Rick Ross's Twitter feed remind us that God Forgives, I Don't drops next week, it also updates us each time the MC sparks a fat blunt or drops stacks of money on jewelry, strippers, and steak dinners. Even though most of us will never sit courtside at a Miami Heat game with the Teflo ... More >>

Rick Ross Don't Forgive Armed Detroit Thugs Who Robbed His Tour Bus

See also "Watch the New Rick Ross Documentary, 'We 'Bout Business'" and "Rick Ross Smokes His Weight in Jamaican Weed" See? Now this is why you are supposed to wear all of your valuables around your neck instead of leaving them in your ride. Rumors are swirling like smoke from a baguette-sized blun ... More >>

Tanlines Covets Rick Ross's Towel Guy and So Should You

See also "Rick Ross Smokes His Weight in Jamaican Weed: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown"  and "Will 'All of Me' by Tanlines Become the New Macarena?"   How do you know when you've achieved Bawse status like Rick Ross? Is it when your swimming pool has more bad bitches in it than water? Is ... More >>

Rick Ross on Prime One Twelve and Tilapia: The Bon Appetit Interview

No, you don't need new glasses, and you're not coming down from a particularly weird foie-gras-induced high. Bon Appétit magazine has published an interview with rapper Rick Ross.In it, our fellow Miamian shares his thoughts on restaurants, dining in transit, and what's in his fridge (rosé wine an ... More >>

Rick Ross Smokes His Weight in Jamaican Weed: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

There was a conspicuous Boss-sized absence at the Miami Heat championship celebrations. That's because Rick Ross was in Jamaica, not the MI-Yayo. What was he doing there? Smoking massive quantities of marijuana and keeping thick bitches warm at night, you silly goose. How do we know? Because we ju ... More >>

Stalley Puts Hair on Grand Central's Chin, June 22

See also "Stalley on His New EP, Mixtape and Album Plans" and "Stalley on Sharing Beard Picks with Rick Ross, Beating 2 Chainz in One-on-One" Stalley Grand Central, Miami Friday, June 22, 2012 Stalley's concert poster bragged of "Special Invited Guests" Rick Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, although we ... More >>

Stalley on Sharing Beard Picks with Rick Ross, Beating 2 Chainz in One-on-One

See also "Stalley on His New EP, Mixtape and Album Plans" When Crossfade spoke with MMG's unstoppable Stalley earlier this week, he gave us exclusive info about his release plans for the rest of the year. He also told us about how he had been "getting back in the groove of recording after being on ... More >>