His freestyle ability is applaudable as he races through a number of fan favourites including 'No Games' and 'Free Mason'.
When he does swagger onto stage there is no doubt this performer is confident as he begins an aggressive rendition of 'Hustlin''. This is easy to see when packed into a venue of these fans all anticipating Rick's appearance. Away from the controversy, Rick has enjoyed huge success in the States with five of his album topping the billboard chart so he clearly has a strong following. Perhaps also known for his feud with fellow rapper 50 Cent. Originally from Mississippi, the rapper has been active as a musician since 2001 and has collaborated with the likes of Drake and Chris Wayne. William Leonard Roberts II is better known by his stage name Rick Ross. Don’t go looking for anything especially complex, or nuanced - do go expecting banger after banger, and you won’t be disappointed. Many hip hop shows feel a little incomplete without a live band, but in Ross’ case, that’d almost be defeating the purpose his gigs, to put it bluntly, are all about him and his legendary appetite for materialism. With a hype man who does his job in the old-fashioned sense of the term - raising Ross to the level of near-deity over the course of his live shows - it’s left to the self-proclaimed Teflon Don to deliver his famous flow with minimal backing and an impressive consistency. Instead, he keeps things relentlessly high-octane, putting together intelligently-judged setlists that blend the best of his own classics and new material with reworked versions of collaborations and the odd cover. His live shows, meanwhile, do little to go against the grain of the public persona he’s carved out they’re relentlessly energetic affairs, with little room for contemplation or reflection. 2014’s “Mastermind” met with critical acclaim, even if it didn’t have a single quite as big as his signature song, “Hustlin’” - it’s testament to Ross’ work ethic, though, that it’s not the only new album he’ll release this year, with “Hood Billionaire” being readied, too.Įven by hip hop standards, Rick Ross has an opinion of himself so high that he borders on caricature most recently, he’s taken to referring to himself as ‘Mastermind’ and has long declared via his Twitter bio that ‘I RUN RAP’ he certainly leads the kind of outrageously lavish lifestyle typically enjoyed by the genre’s biggest stars. He frequently offsets that kind of imagery, though, against his struggles as a youngster, both with the law and with his family it’s this dichotomy that makes him one of his genre’s most compelling artists. In terms of his own solo career, Ross’ lyricism has usually focused on the decadent lifestyle he enjoys, with money and material possessions clearly his primary motivation.
He’s probably best-known in the hip hop community for having created his own label, Maybach Music Group named after his favourite brand of luxury car, Ross has signed the likes of Meek Mill, French Montana and Wale to the imprint. After addressing that particular issue on his commercial breakthrough record “Deeper Than Rap” in 2009, though - he’d initially denied that the rumours were true - he’s gone on to make himself one of the best-respected and most widely-revered rappers in the world, having been named Hottest MC in the Game by MTV in 2012. It’s difficult to quite put your finger on how conventional Ross’ pre-hip hop life was, by the genre’s usual standards he certainly didn’t have the most comfortable of upbringings, but it’s also fair to say that serving as a prison officer - as Ross did for a couple of years in the mid-nineties - is hardly something that’s a common occurrence in a genre of music with a general lack of regard for law enforcement.
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