On that song, Ross says, “Maybe this my magnum opus,” but that isn’t true.
Tucked toward the end of Rather You Than Me is the fifth installment of Ross’s “Maybach Music” series unlike previous installments, which were either packed to the gills with guests or at least nabbed a lone A-lister, this one features the Detroit rapper Dej Loaf-an extraordinary talent, but, you know, not Jay Z. Ross casts himself as a custodian of Dade County-and, implicitly, of hip-hop-and he takes his post seriously. The subplot is that, after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, Birdman and Wayne moved to Miami (“You came to my city, nigga”). did for The Dynasty’s “Where Have You Been.” (As an aside: shouldn’t Jay and Beanie Sigel’s soul-baring on this beat be sacrosanct?) Ross takes Birdman to task over Cash Money’s notoriously suspect business practices, from his alleged refusal to pay producers their fair share to his treatment of Lil Wayne and the rest of the former Hot Boys. The most newsworthy song on the album is “Idols Become Rivals,” which is introduced by a Wing Stop-hawking Chris Rock and which flips a Camilo Sesto sample the same way the producer T.T. “She on My Dick,” with an assist from Gucci Mane, would be an admirable play for radio if not for its impossible-to-clean-up hook the Young Thug- and Wale-featuring “Trap Trap Trap” is by far the best of the three, where the template is updated to allow more negative space, in fitting with 2017. (Blowin’ Money Fast)” “Dead Presidents,” an otherwise very good, if impermanent, collaboration with Future, Yo Gotti, and onetime rival Jeezy, feels frustratingly like a retread. There are times when Ross seems to strain too hard to recreate “B.M.F. Rather You Than Me is an album that’s comfortable in its middle age. Both of those songs mentioned are produced by Bink!, the Virginia native who matched Just Blaze and Kanye West beat-for-beat on The Blueprint they fit neatly alongside duets with fellow vets like Nas and Raphael Saadiq. From the grand, contemplative “Scientology” to the velvety “Santorini Greece,” the record frequently sounds more foreign than it really is, like a love letter to the long-ago Obama years. League no longer has multiple singles in the Top 40), it still suits Ross incredibly well.
The perplexing and endlessly impressive thing here is that while this style has mostly fallen out of vogue (J.U.S.T.I.C.E. *Rather You Than Me *is a smooth, enjoyable attempt to wrestle the spotlight back onto his solo work.Ī three-song stretch on the album’s A-side (“Trap Trap Trap” through “She on My Dick”) aside, Rather You Than Me plants itself somewhere off the Atlantic coast, on a yacht with saxophones and fine linens and Michael McDonald. ( Jeezy blew up in this period, too, but the popular perception was that he was ushered into stardom by T.I.) This decade, even as the rap zeitgeist moves further and further from his aesthetic wheelhouse, he’s been a fixture at radio and on the albums of his famous peers. He shrugged off the 50 Cent-led character assassinations he came out looking like the lone success story from Jay Z’s reign as Def Jam president.
At some point-probably around 2010’s Teflon Don-Ross became a strange point of consensus. “Summer Seventeen” feat.On Rather You Than Me, the ninth Rick Ross album in just over a decade, the Miami rapper calls himself “so divisive,” but that isn’t true anymore.
See full tracklisting below and click the button below to cop the album in zip.ġ. Rather You Than Me album features Raphael Saadiq, Chris Rock, Young Thug, Wale, Meek Mill, Yo Gotti, Gucci Mane, Nas, Anthony Hamilton, Dej Loaf and Scrilla. Rick Ross - Rather You Than Me Rick Ross's 9th studio album Rather You Than Me has just surfaced! The album was slated for release midnight 17th March but we have our hands on it :).