Rich Forever... :wow:

[old boy]

incredible mixtape, true CLASSIC and it should have been the official album


yall mentioned most of the best ones already but i'll tell you one that hardly anyone talks about: party heart


that beat, hook and ross's swag is unreal


only misstep is ring ring, love future but i hate that track with a passion other wise i give this 5 mics

 

[murksiderock]

incredible mixtape, true CLASSIC and it should have been the official album


yall mentioned most of the best ones already but i'll tell you one that hardly anyone talks about: party heart


that beat, hook and ross's swag is unreal


only misstep is ring ring, love future but i hate that track with a passion other wise i give this 5 mics

I can't give it 5 mics regardless because of the bloated tracklist. Rich Forever would have been better served without Mine Games, Ring Ring, fukk Em, Off The Boat. Maybe another one or two. That's what prevents it from being a classic to me...

Otherwise, Ricky's lyricism was at his peak on this tape, the gotdamn beats were OUTSTANDING, and there are classic cuts all over this shyt. Buy the tracklist and the decision to include some weak songs prevent this from being as legendary as it could be...

That said, as you can tell from my avi, I'm a huge Ross supporter. Somebody just mentioned it, but I'm behind it 100%. Ross is a legend, and one of the greatest rappers to ever come out the South, probably Top 5. Definitely makes a Top 50 All-Time list, and that's being a little fickle, I personally think he could be in the Top 25. His prime came in an era where sales weren't the largest, but I challenge anybody to tell me who did all of this in consecutive order; Ross did it in 5 years (2009-2014):

Deeper Than Rap (2009), Albert Anastasia (2010), Teflon Don (2010), Ashes To Ashes (2010), Rich Forever (2012), God Forgives I Don't (2012), Mastermind (2014)...

His only missteps in that period were Black Bar Mitzvah and The H, his resume would be 100 in that 5 years without those two. He put Meek Mill on, made Wale a midlevel star, branded MMG as the biggest label for a period, and made himself the best rapper on the planet in the face of adversity and odds against him...

Very few nikkas have put together a 5-year run of dominance like Ross. There's been a lot of guys who put together one year outbursts, but Ross' 2010 and 2012 are credible. Dude is a muhfukking legend and the further we get from his heyday, I think the game as a whole will start appreciating him more!

 

[H@LLOW]

Classic

 

[raoulduke187]

 

[Free White & 21]

Not the GOAT mixtape but it's up there. 2012 was a trash year in hip hop and this tape was certainly a top album of that year, its aged beautifully. I can't believe its almost 7 years old (first heard it around March 2012, I was 22 and living in a shoebox apartment above a sneaker store in Elmira NY trapping like a muhfukka)...

What were yall doing when this tape dropped?

I was getting into a lot of shyt in the streets when this dropped. I was barely making money and shyt was NOT going well for me.

My spot got robbed, almost went to war, almost got arrested for shooting a cop (mistaken identity)... too much fukkery for a nikka that was barely getting paid

This album meant a lot to me during that time. It stayed on repeat through the ups and downs and spoke to me on multiple levels.

Every time I hear it now I realize how lucky i was to make it through that nightmare. On top of all that, it’s actually an extremely dope album

 

[murksiderock]

I was getting into a lot of shyt in the streets when this dropped. I was barely making money and shyt was NOT going well for me.

My spot got robbed, almost went to war, almost got arrested for shooting a cop (mistaken identity)... too much fukkery for a nikka that was barely getting paid

This album meant a lot to me during that time. It stayed on repeat through the ups and downs and spoke to me on multiple levels.

Every time I hear it now I realize how lucky i was to make it through that nightmare. On top of all that, it’s actually an extremely dope album

No doubt it's a dope album, it is somewhere on my personal favorites. And Ross definitely one of my favorite rappers ever...

I'm glad this shyt helped you, I got albums like that too. Ironically, at this same time period (early 2012), the album that got me through each day was Maroon 5 first album, Songs About Jane, which dropped in 2003...

I was 9 years late on it but it definitely helped me. I was in NY, playing daddy to a girl's three children, and her and I were very tumultuous. I got locked up and put on probation, then I got kicked outta our (HERS! Lol) crib, she wouldn't let me see the kids. I had a hard time finding a place to stay and actually when I was in NY I wasn't initially up there chasing money. But I eventually landed at this sneaker store apartment and started fukking around...

This is how I remember where I was when Rich Forever dropped cause at the time I wasn't a Ross fan, but this nikka in my building got me on this tape and we started making a little bread together...

That Songs About Jane album is a classic for nikkas we call "simps" and be wide open lovestruck hahaha...