"Mastermind" by Rick Ross drops almost four years ago. What's he gotta do to reach that point again?

[ILLMMORTAL]

Let Justice League produce the whole album!

 

[CrimsonTider]

Which is saying a lot, cause when he first came out I thought dude was COMPLETE trash.

POM is raw af

 

[Recca Gatsby]

POM is raw af

Peep the time period. Around that time it was a sound dominating and to adhere to it, he dumbed down his style heavily. Compare his rapping on that to Deeper than Rap (his most lyrical)...night and day.

Plus he BEEN could rap. Look. He got Push a

 

[Suleiman Bey]

I think Hood Billionaire was he's decline
Like that's when you began to see it

Hood Billionaire is dope. Skip the singles with K.Michelle and R.Kelly that album go.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Peep the time period. Around that time it was a sound dominating and to adhere to it, he dumbed down his style heavily. Compare his rapping on that to Deeper than Rap (his most lyrical)...night and day.

Plus he BEEN could rap. Look. He got Push a

You said he was complete Trash wish is a lie. He improved but he was good on POM

 

[Recca Gatsby]

You said he was complete Trash wish is a lie. He improved but he was good on POM

By comparison to how he really was CAPABLE of spitting. You could ride to his music but he was gibberish on that album

 

[Dboy41]

Mastermind is overrated. I appreciate Ross trying to show growth, but that style doesnt work for him.

 

[BaRRyG]

I agree...Ross actually tries to RAP....

He doesn't fit in with these drugged out pill popping kids today who ain't trying to rap i.e (lil pump...6-9) etc...

I think he should just remained bossed up on the executive level

Fukk RAPPING

leave it to the kids

This what he has mastered, he can't quit he's still great b.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

This what he has mastered, he can't quit he's still great b.

Mastery of Craft doesn't mean a gottdamn thing in the marketplace

If thier is no longer a high demand for his brand of rapping he needs to keep it moving

Rakim..and Big Daddy Kane are masters as well but commercially thier isn't a demand for them in this contemporary market

 

[BaRRyG]

Mastery of Craft doesn't mean a gottdamn thing in the marketplace

If thier is no longer a high demand for his brand of rapping he needs to keep it moving

Rakim..and Big Daddy Kane are masters as well but commercially thier isn't a demand for them in this contemporary market

fukk the marketplace ain' no marketplace for real rap nikkas anyway, but dude can still make music at a very high level. Why not continue to do it for the culture? Imo

 

[Street Knowledge]

The last ross album I liked

 

[Evil Grandson]

Very few in history can consistently maintain a mainstream buzz, Jay Z is the exception to this

There's like 15 rappers who have done it. It isnt THAT hard

 

[Dolla$]

nikkas don’t think Deeper than Rap was a classic??