So? Freeway Ricky Ross is fucking crazy, why the fuck would he talk with him?
Freeway Ricky wanted to have a legitimate conversation with fake ass Ross. What's the fucking harm in that?
Lots of rappers rap about things that didn't happen directley to them, there's no shame in that. Bone Thugz 'N Harmony talk about mass murdering a bunch of people, and torture and shit, do you think they actually do that?
First of all it's Bone Thugs-n-Harmony get the name correct if you gonna bring my favorite rap group into the fucking discussion. Second of all, Bone lived the street life and struggled. They lived the thug life and even if they have songs that are war like, it's a metaphor for the fight they had to go through to survive on the streets of Cleveland. Many of their stories are in fact true. Krayzie rapped about making dummy rocks out of soap, bread, and orajel and sold these fake rocks to crackheads to make some quick cash. He's also rapped about how he accidentally shot Wish in the leg with a shotgun one time. They used to play with a Ouija board when they were younger so that's all correct as well. Do you see a pattern here? Their stories are true and if some stories are exorbitant, they stand as metaphors for a more generalized issue. Flesh raps about being in prison for threatening someone with an AK, Bizzy's rapped about giving up all his possessions to go live on the streets as a spiritual journey, Layzie has gone off about struggling in the game to provide for his family. All factual shit.
Let's compare that to fake ass Rick Ross now. Every. Single. Story. by Rick Ross is a complete fabrication. He's never even lived a life that would remotely resemble what he raps about. He never sold drugs, he never shot at a motherfucker. He was a correctional officer. Let me repeat that for you. A fucking correctional officer. Guess what they do? They talk to the people that actually
lived that life and the problems they've gone through. Pretty easy to rip off stories when you hear so many of them. So now he goes and creates a false moniker that doesn't represent who he truly is and you wonder why I got an issue with it when I listen to artists who represent who they are and what they truly stand for. He's no better than Lil Wayne popping off about lollipops and living every day like he was in the club. The difference is Ross acts like he's a drug dealer and a mafia boss when in reality, he's nothing but a fraud and a biter. And yes there is shame in acting like someone you ain't. Why do you think Eminem is so huge? Because he raps about his life and what he knows. When you boil down Em's career, his best songs were the personal ones that reflected his true self and his thoughts.
Like I've said, different strokes for different folks, but I do enjoy some of Rick Ross' stuff.
To each his own, I still think he's a shit rapper.
I really don't care about him taking the name, cause the real Ricky Ross was a piece of shit, but the Murs deal was fucked up, I did lose quite a bit of respect for Ross after that.
Let's put it like this, after Freeway Ricky lost everything because of the CIA ordeal, what did he have left? All he had that was his was his name. Now imagine if you will that someone completely took your name and became famous because of it. Wouldn't you get pissed off? I would. This goes back to the whole Ross jacking stories, names, and beats from everyone. It just shows that Ross is incapable of doing anything on his own. He has to rely on others personal pain and issues to make a dollar. Incredibly fucked up in my opinion. He didn't go through the struggle, he didn't do any of the shit he raps about on his records, notta, not a god damn thing. Since you wanted to try and compare Ross's stories to Bone's, at least Bone has lived through a lot of the shit they talk about, and can thus compare the struggle on the streets to warfare. It's not a hard stretch to make the comparison, but because they lived that life, they know all about how it goes and have the right to make such a comparison. Rick Ross can go sit with the Lil Wayne's of the world and live in their fantasy land of clubs, drugs, mafias, and whatever. It's that type of shit that's lowered the power hip hop used to have to make a statement about the world, because no one will take rappers as a political power anymore. Back when we had 2pac and Public Enemy, hip hop had the ability to open people's eyes to the wrongs of the world, to get people to make a political and social stand, now we have nothing but rappers that want to rap about a fantasy life that has devalued what artists such as Pac and Public Enemy worked so hard to do.
Yeah, I didn't know all that shit about Rick Ross until I read this thread. Like I said, dude hasn't been on my radar til' this album. The beats are sweet, but i'm kinda like EH if they're stolen beats.. anywho.
. And Jeezy, I don't know, I'm a fan. Don't know why but I am.