Rick Ross: "Foreclosures"

At this point, Rick Ross’ relationship with reality is so foregone it’s not even worth discussing, if it ever really was. We get it: Rawse is The Secret, the American dream in all its bullshit glory, the reason every “Is Lana Del Rey/Drake/Slim Jesus authentic?” think piece was irrelevant before it was written. None of this is real, and it doesn’t matter. That’s not what you come to the Bawse for. You come for butter-drenched crab meats, emerald-studded pinky rings, and hang-gliding trips through Hawaii, glaring weight limits be damned.

So what does it mean when the biggest Bawse we’ve seen thus far quietly drops a free album with almost no fanfare, leading off with a track preaching fiscal responsibility? On “Foreclosures”, Ross recruits longtime collaborators J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League for a beat that harkens back to 2009’s yacht-rap classic, Deeper Than Rap—an album he sunk into rather than shouted over. “You reap what you sow, and they speaking repossessions,” he advocates, railing against shady publishing deals, presumptive extravagance, and once-humble peers corroded by wealth. It seems obvious he’s at least partially referring to old nemesis 50 Cent’s bankruptcy and MMG rising star Meek Mill’s recent controversy. Who would’ve thought 2015’s most cogent, subtle diss track would come from the Teflon Don?

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