Is Rick Ross essentially Riff Raff?

[Pop123]

Here's a mindfukk right here...

What if, the reason he never breaks character, ever, is because.....maybe................




He isn't in character!!!!

That man is so far gone at this point that he believes the fairy tale, Ross embodies the "if you believe it you can be it" phrase, I'd be willing to bet that if an interviewer asked him "were you really 17 selling cocaine for the Medellin cartel?" he would give some unclear answer littered with nefarious undertones, like he can't discuss it. . In the rap world it's perfectly normal. In the real world we call that Psychosis.

 

[TrifeGod]

 

[mortuus est]

op wants to see what ross is like, like how people thought stone cold was the same person when he essentially is just a red neck that loves his ranch

 

[mozichrome]

fukk this thread tho, but this a classic

 

[Ineedmoney504]

1 star, fukk this thread

this song is a classic

 

[b@squ1@t]

willow stans mad in here

your favorite rapper cant answer in depth questions


when you got shyt to hide you stay evasive
50 hurt your feelins so bad you cant recover from it

 

[Pool_Shark]

Listen to his Juan Epstein Podcast if you want to get an idea on how he came up. Most interviews I've seen he talks about keeping a close circle, trying to avoid unnecessary problems if you can't make money off of it, positiveness, being an entrepreneur, and promoting whatever endeavors he's in at the moment. I don't get what's so out there about his character. He doesn't go on recent interviews and say he's selling a million pounds of coke out of his backpack.

 

[marcuz]

i wonder why, sometimes i wonder why

 

[Bay Area]

Rag game Riff Raff

 

[TheLoneRanger]

kermit da hustla gonna give himself a heart attack.

1 of many great articles about Roazy

By himself, Rick Ross is an interesting case study. But his self-awareness and the bifurcation of his persona into character and actor could also have interesting ramifications in hip-hop music as a whole. When Shakespeare’s characters began to hear themselves, they began to exhibit a detailed psychology more reflective of the human experience than anything that preceded it. Role-playing is such a rich metaphor for the human experience, because we do it all the time in our daily lives. We adapt our behavior to fit whomever we’re with. We act differently towards our bosses than we do towards our lovers. What Shakespeare did, and what Rick Ross is doing, calls attention to our own behavior: Who are we when we’re observed?
It’s almost as if the loss of authenticity has freed him to push the Rick Ross character to its utmost extreme.
When Rick Ross compares himself to Big Meech and Larry Hoover on “B.M.F.,” the semantics are important. He has gone from saying that he “knows” infamous drug traders, to saying that he “thinks” he is one. The “I think I’m” in “I think I’m Big Meech/ Larry Hoover” implies that Rick Ross in fact knows that he’s not a big time coke dealer, but that he has convinced himself that he is. Again, Ross is winking at his own play-acting.
Rick Ross has done something that the Beastie Boys could not: By charging in two directions at once—towards authenticity and artifice—he has smuggled duality into the rap marketplace. Ross is running a double hustle. He’s hustling those who believe in his overt persona by convincing them that he’s a drug dealer. He’s also hustling those who recognize his phoniness, and it’s this second hustle that’s more intricate. What does he gain by calling attention to the hustle itself? He gains admiration for his hustling, and that, in turn, validates his hustling. By pretending to be a hustler, he actually becomes one.

 

[blackslash]

@kermit da hustla

smack dese nikkaz wit some knowledge my dude

 

[Da King]

Corny ass cacs going at Ross on street authenticity when ya fav rappers don't give shyt and fukks with him heavy

 

[osama bin fly]

willow stans mad in here

your favorite rapper cant answer in depth questions


when you got shyt to hide you stay evasive
50 hurt your feelins so bad you cant recover from it

50 is delaying 3 albums at the same time
Rick Ross released 2 albums, 3 compilations albums with his label and 4 mixtape since Curly's last album

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

take my dikk out your mouth and keep it moving, lame.

Take Rick Ross dikk out your mouth and wash your face

 

[beenz]

I'm a fan of Ross music, but it seems like His whole personality is a character. He never breaks character even in interviews. The only other rapper I can think of like that is Riff Raff.

I actually think riff raff is more authentic than rick ross to be honest.