Getting Sonned By Rick Ross x NYC x 2006

Rick Ross
Interview by Todd A. Thomas

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MoreHipHop.com: Introduce yourself to MoreHipHop.com
Rick Ross: What it does…Rick Ross.

MH2: Representing?
Rick Ross: M.I.A-yo

MH2: Right now you got that song going on, “Hustla’s Anthem” that’s blazin’ the charts. What’s your definition of a hustla?
RR: A dude that can turn a mixtape into a multi-million dollar bidding war.

MH2: Okay. Now some people talk about hustling like to be cool. Now I wanna go back to…I was checking out your bio and you have a mentor, his name was Kenneth “Boobie” Williams and on your official site it had that he had an 85 million dollar drug empire. After all was said and done, it said that he passed the torch to you. I want to know why that was posted on the site. You don’t think that was a little too personal or something?
RR: Of course yea! FBI links and all kind of sh*t. I stay off them sites man. Shout out to Kenneth “Boobie” Williams.

MH2: And it said you compared him to Larry Hoover of the Gangster Disciples. I want to know how you went about making that comparison.
RR: Well you know…Kenneth “Boobie” Williams that’s my homie he locked up right now. Larry Hoover he locked up right now. Both got life sentences. It’s a fu*ked up comparison. You know they both did a lot for the streets. Straight up.

MH2: You go real in depth about cutting coke, etc. You think that people in that field they praise you for putting it out there or they think sometimes they think that it’s getting exploited.
RR: A hustla’s a hustla. A real hustla always commend another hustla that’s being successful. So if you not commending me then you might not be a real hustla.

MH2: So for the most part then you get your props for the lyrics and everything like that…
RR: You should give me props period just for making music now. I could be doing other things.

MH2: Your single “Hustlers Anthem” comes off…I guess. Most people up here in the North used to have this whole bias that the South was all about the beats…everything was Crunk and now you have this new wave where Southern lyricism is coming into the limelight…so I want to know do you think this is a new trend…
RR: The South gonna do whatever it do but Rick Ross I could speak for my music and I always was into my rhymes and patterns and you know what I’m sayin’ going into music…when you hear my records other then hustlin….That debut album Port Of Miami …will be a classic trust me. Just remember I told you.

MH2: Some of your influences include?
RR: Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, Eazy E …Luke, on the business side, being young…watching him own his own label when I was a kid. That was motivation to me. There was something about that “Symphony” video when Big Daddy Kane walked into the salon with the ropes on. I just felt that. Shout out to Big Daddy Kane.

MH2: According to your bio…it said you would consider going into acting?
RR: This is just a dumb question people always ask you if you a rapper. Of course you wanna make money. Of course you into all that. Of course you a artist. It ain’t like I’m trippin’ I ain’t going into casting and all that.

MH2: What type of role would you wanna play?
RR: Something where I could just sit back and smoke weed. And tell them bring me more bottles, more girls…one of those roles. If you out there lookin’… holla atcha’ boy.

MH2: So I guess more or less like a “Belly” kind of movie or something.
RR: I don’t know maybe some “Sopranos” sh*t. I need a psychiatrist; she needs to give me brains.”

MH2: No doubt! So what about other definitions of a hustla.
RR: If you burning mix CD’s. If you bootlegging CD’s, if you washing cars…whatever you doing you hustlin. It ain’t necessarily meaning one particular vice. If you working in Mc Donald’s you hustlin.

MH2: Rumor has it that there’s a “Hustler’s Anthem” remix coming out with Jay and Nas?
RR: I ain’t sure about the Nas side but Jay-Z he confirming. That’d be good look coming from Nas but it’s gonna be crazy.

MH2: It’s gonna be the summer anthem when’s that gonna drop?
RR: Yeah…yeah…I ain’t sure yet. The video just debut and we gonna let the video do its thing then we gonna follow up with the remix. Killen em small. Just keep killen em.

MH2: I was told specifically I couldn’t ask a question so I’m not gonna ask a question but I wanna know if you can finish off a statement. When compared to Young Jeezy you don’t respond to that because of…
RR: This like the first time I heard it…compare it where….

MH2: I don’t know. I was just told I couldn’t ask about…you being compared to Young Jeezy so I wanna know where that came from.
RR: You should ask who ever asked you that. I don’t know. Rick Ross man, doing it over a decade. They shoulda went and got the first Boys in The Hood Album. Was it comparisons then?

MH2: I don’t know what the comparison was.
RR: Me either. Hopefully it was a good comparison.

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