Did we ever get to the bottom of Ross' sudden improvement post-2008?

[Trajan]

This has to got to be one of rap's biggest mysteries.

Dude went from Port of Miami (which I liked btw) to Mafia Music in the space of three years.

No one suddenly improves that good that quickly.

Is the consensus that he was always a great writer and he just dumbed it down because of the climate in rap circa 2006?

 

[10:31]

He's a former ghost writer (trina, Trick Daddy, 8Ball & MJG)

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

Yeh his jump from Trilla to Deeper than Rap is incredible

 

[Bugsmoran]

he always was nice... if anything he was holding back for a minute... got lazy

then when they found out he was a C.O. and 50 start gettin at him he said F it let me get back on my grizzly

i first heard him on this joint with Trina... his flow was better back then

2:28mark

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

What happened was the people who heard "Mafia Music" only heard "Hustlin" and "Port of Miami" previously. Ricky been nice.

 

[Momentum]

Olubowale Victor Akintimehin

 

[Sugar]

I've always been more impressed with Wayne's improvement than Ross's. Wayne literally went from being the weak link in the Hot Boyz to killing the mixtape scene in the same decade

 

[Consigliere]

He started hanging and rapping with better emcees and he stepped his game up.

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

I've always been more impressed with Wayne's improvement than Ross's. Wayne literally went from being the weak link in the Hot Boyz to killing the mixtape scene in the same decade

Wayne was far from a weak link. Turk was the weak link. wayne had classic verses on Hot Boys "Get It How Live" album and BG's "It's All On U" album.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

The first time I really got into Ross is when I heard the song " Magnificent " and I was like song was fukking banging . I bought Deeper Than Rap and it was fukking worth it and that's one of the few mainstream albums of the last 5 years I can say was worth bying

 

[Big Mel]

hes always been wack to me

 

[itsyoung!!]

This has to got to be one of rap's biggest mysteries.

Dude went from Port of Miami (which I liked btw) to Mafia Music in the space of three years.

No one suddenly improves that good that quickly.

Is the consensus that he was always a great writer and he just dumbed it down because of the climate in rap circa 2006?

How you gonna skip over Trilla?? He been doin that Mafia Music type shyt just not on as smooth beats

but he already rapped like that

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I say this all the time. That run up to Deeper Than Rap was the largest improvement of ANY rap artist I've ever witnessed.

Its like dude either got better, or stopped dumbing shyt down.

If it wasn't for that 50 beef, he'd be a MASSIVE artist.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

He had no choice but to improve after getting exposed as a CO

 

[L&HH]

I say this all the time. That run up to Deeper Than Rap was the largest improvement of ANY rap artist I've ever witnessed.

Its like dude either got better, or stopped dumbing shyt down.

If it wasn't for that 50 beef, he'd be a MASSIVE artist.

50 did not stop that nikka from nothing, he'd be in the same place he is now w/o it. I have heard a few ppl IRL mention they dont fukk with him b/c he was a "cop", but those were airhead bytches that wouldnt have fukked with him regardless