"For Da Low" might be the record's biggest surprise: a "jazze phizzle pro-duck shizzle" with exactly zero (0) sine wave synths. It's the kind of track Lil' Wayne would absolutely obliterate, but Ross fades into the background, overwhelmed by Cool & Dre's euphoric flybuzz synths. "Boss" offers a blueprint for a successful slow jam, emphasizing the first and third beat as much as possible without grinding the song to a complete halt. Which is a shame, because the hook Ross delivers over the song's speedboat bass and sparkling horn hits is legendary: "I'm bad (I'm bad)/ I'm back (I'm back)/ I'm mad (I'm mad)/ I'm strapped (I'm strapped)." For a few, thrilling seconds, Rick Ross is Mr. "I'm Bad" contains some of the album's most syllabically ambitious stanzas, but also some of its worst stumbles. To call Ross' verses redundant, however, would be just that: "Mo' trips (mo' trips)/ Mo' whips (mo' whips)/ Mo' money (mo' money)/ I'm mo' rich (mo' rich)." "Blow" sets gale force tuba farts against Dre's fairy dust hook. Grim, creeping arpeggios lend themselves to opening tracks, and this song's twinkling piano line recalls the menacing string plucks Young Jeezy used to open Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101. "Push It" flips the same-named track from that movie's soundtrack, slowing the beat to match Ross' phlegmatic gait. The first six tracks are absolute titans, all sweeping synths and hypnotic organs and Scarface samples.
He's that rare, mythical creature: a rapper without a back story.Īs if digesting trap-hop wasn't beguiling enough, here's an album presenting perhaps the starkest gap in quality between production and personality since Puff Daddy and the Family's No Way Out. We never learn for sure where Rick Ross came from, and that prevents us from truly knowing where he's coming from. We know he took a woman home from the club last night but (unlike Lil' Wayne or Art Brut) he withholds prosaic details like how many times they stumbled making it to the bed or what was breakfast the next morning or even, God forbid, what she wore. We know he spends liberally and audaciously but (unlike Pharrell) he spares us colorful sketches of his favorite wardrobe items. We know he made big bucks selling coke but (unlike Young Jeezy) he glosses over the dark side of black market entrepreneurship. In a gross perversion of lyric-writing fundamentals, Ross usually eschews the specific for the general. His "boss" is the sound of a trillion-pound weight hitting the ground.īut that's about the deepest this guy runs. The first line of its first single, "Hustlin'," is a fucking beast, the best 12 words Ross ever strung together: " Who the fuck you think you fuck-in' wit' I'm the fuck-in' BOSS." Ross accents against the beat, giving the line a free-falling feel. Port of Miami sounds so good, you might be duped into thinking Ross can actually spit. If anything, the album proves you can listen to someone expatiate on himself and walk away feeling like you've learned nothing about that person it is- not insignificantly- a paean to saying a lot without saying anything.Ĭredit Def Jam for an admirable con job. Weird, though: For such a blowhard, we hardly learn anything about Ross on Port of Miami, his lavishly promoted Def Jam debut. Diddy (Puff Daddy) / E 40 / Keak da Sneak / Kool G Rap & DJ Polo / Kwamé / B Rich / Knoc Turn' Al / Kurupt / RBX / DMX - avr.Rick Ross is a great rapper.
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