Rick Ross - Black Market (Discussion Thread)

[Tommy Sheppard]

cee-lo killed this smile mama smile

 

[Larry Lobster]

These beats brehs

Ghostwriter

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

"Assassinate Trump like I'm Zimmerman
now accept these words like they came from Eminem
Democratic party sentenced to the pendulum
killin em, I voted for André Benjamin
head of Black music? Do you know what rhythm is?
Stick ya hand in the basket, it gets venomous"

yall not hearing this man

 

[NoHalfWay]

IT GET SO LONELY AT THE TOP, IT BE SO LONELY AT THE TOP
I GET SO LONELY AT THE TOP, IT BE SO LONELY AT THE TOOOOOOOOOP

 

[FlyRy]

Drives me crazy that he follows a formula and always sprinkles in trap songs and then does a few songs in a row for the ladies that bog down the middle.

He did the same thing on deeper than rap.

Just give us one album all soulful lyrical shyt.

 

[Larry Lobster]

I get so lonely at the top.

 

[NoHalfWay]

Black Opium

This shyt drop on iTunes at midnight? This man has earned my money right here

 

[RAW_SPK]

On some real shyt

that "...No shots, but I write all of my raps..." coupled with that hearty sarcastic laugh of his is some true high grade ether. And no amount of memes is gonna change that fact.

He proving his pen with this one. He even spitting on the trap beats just to spite nikkas

 

[Arithmetic]

Funny watching so many give Ross his just due...

It hit most of us around Deeper Than Rap

It was all over after I heard mafia music

 

[Morethan1]

Drives me crazy that he follows a formula and always sprinkles in trap songs and then does a few songs in a row for the ladies that bog down the middle.

He did the same thing on deeper than rap.

Just give us one album all soulful lyrical shyt.

This is why it's not gonna be considered a classic. nikka could of not put the trap songs on there and replace them with Bel-Air and Icon. And had a potential classic

 

[45123]

Drives me crazy that he follows a formula and always sprinkles in trap songs and then does a few songs in a row for the ladies that bog down the middle.

He did the same thing on deeper than rap.

Just give us one album all soulful lyrical shyt.

Broke it down here

I'm not talking about the lyrical content... I'm talking about the very slight variations in the formula, production choices, and sequencing of a lot of his projects.

Black Dollar:
Tracks 1-9: Justice League shyt, smooth and boom bappy type, or just generally more hip-hop oriented songs
Tracks 10-12: Southern trap type songs
Tracks 13-14: Smooth rnb shyt for the bytches or some "fukk these hoes" type songs
Tracks 15-17: Celebratory/reminiscing closing songs
+ a Jay-Z sampled remake tribute song

Mastermind:
Tracks 1-7, 9: Justice League shyt, smooth and boom bappy type, or just generally more hip-hop oriented songs
Tracks 8, 11, & 15: Southern trap type songs
Tracks 10 & 13: Smooth rnb shyt for the bytches or some "fukk these hoes" type songs
Tracks 14 & 16: Celebratory/reminiscing closing songs
+ a Biggie sampled remake tribute song

GFID:
Tracks 1-7: Justice League shyt, smooth and boom bappy type, or just generally more hip-hop oriented songs
Tracks 8-10: Southern trap type songs
Tracks 11-14: Smooth rnb shyt for the bytches or some "fukk these hoes" type songs
Track 15: Celebratory/reminiscing closing song


Teflon Don, Deeper Than Rap, and Port of Miami follow this formula too but I won't get into those... don't remember Trilla or the other 2 mixtapes, but only other projects that don't look like this are Rich Forever & Hood Billionaire, both of which are pretty much hi-hats, 808s, and trap sounds for the whole album. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy most of Rick Ross' projects, I've just grown a lil tired of the rigidness in how he makes them.

 

[10:31]

Drives me crazy that he follows a formula and always sprinkles in trap songs and then does a few songs in a row for the ladies that bog down the middle.

He did the same thing on deeper than rap.

Just give us one album all soulful lyrical shyt.

He's literally followed the same formula since Port Of Miami

Street records
R&B records
Soulful records

 

[beenz]

damn, one song in and it's already

MC Gusto did it again!!!

 

[prince_peoples]

yeah i slept on ross up until last year.

Funny watching so many give Ross his just due...

It hit most of us around Deeper Than Rap

 

[NoHalfWay]

Mariah's voice