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RICK ROSS - MASTERMIND (REVIEW)
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AFTER BEING PUSHED BACK DUE TO NO INTERESTED IN THE PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SINGLES. WE FINALLY IN 2014 GET TO HEAR WHAT RICKY WAS WORKING ON.
CONTROVERSY SEEMS TO BE FOLLOWING RICK ROSS EVERY WHERE HE GOES SO YOU CAN IMAGINE ALL THE HYPE AROUND THIS ALBUM. HIS LAST ALBUM WAS NOT AS GREAT AS IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE.
AFTER A LENGTHY INTRO ROSS BUSTS INTO "RICH IS GANGSTA" PRODUCED BY BLACK METAPHOR. TAKING SHOTS AT 50 CENT, MAYBE H IS NOT I DON'T KNOW THESE THINGS MAN. A NICE TRACK WITH COOL DRUM ROLLS AND HORNS.
JAKE ONE WHO PRODUCES SAMPLED SOUL ANTHEMS PRODUCES THE TRAPPISH (I HOPE TRAP WILL DIE) "DRUG DEALERS DREAM". NOTHING NEW HERE.
THE SKIT "SHOTS FIRED" CHRONICLES RICK ROSS MIAMI SHOOTING SOME TIME AGO.
"NOBODY" REWORKS NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "YOUR'E NOBODY TILL SOMEBODY KILLS YOU" FEATURING FRENCH MONTANA AND DIDDY. IT'S OK NOT GREAT. THEY SHOULD HAVE LEFT IT ALONE. IT WAS GOOD AS IT WAS.
DIDDY WAS BROUGHT ON LATER AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AFTER THE PROJECT WAS PUSHED BACK BY DEF JAM.
WE ALL HAVE HEARD "THE DEVIL IS A LIE" FEATURING JAY Z. WE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE WHO REALLY WHO WAS BEHIND THE BEAT. STILL A POWERFUL TRACK THOUGH.
BINK! CONCOCTS THE DOPE RAGGA TINGED "MAFIA MUSIC III" FEATURING RAGGA ARTIST SIZZLA AND MAVADO. IT CAN GO YES THE TRACK GOES!!! IT DOES NOT BLOWS. I LOVE IT AND I AM SURE YOU WILL LOVE IT TOO.
"WHAT A SHAME" FEATURING FRENCH MONTANA IS DEF FOR REALLA TRACK PRODUCED BY PRODUCER REEFA. IT USES FAMILIAR ELEMENTS AS USED AND SAID BY ODB.
TO BE HONEST RICK ROSS WON'T TOP TEFLON DON OR DEEPER THAN RAP, THOSE WERE HIS GEMS. THIS IS AIGHT. BUT IT IS BETTER THAN HIS PREVIOUS EFFORT.
SCOTT STORCH THE PIANO MAN HOOKS RICKY UP WITH "SUPREME" a nice mid tempo track that can be played when you just hit that booty. you like hitting booty right? everybody like hitting booty, you damn booty hitter!
"blk & wht" changes the mood of the album and this is where the album gets darker. this is the rick ross we came to know. this is a good one here. " .... the nigga black but he sellin' white ...." d-rich paints a dope background with the musical back drop.
KANYE WEST AND BIG SEAN POPS UP ON THE LONGISH "SANCTIFIED" KANYE RAMBLING A BIT ON HIS VERSE HERE. BIG SEAN NOT BRINGING ANYTHING NEW. IT'S OK NOT GREAT.
the J.U.S.T.I.C.E LEAGUE ONLY HAS ONE CONTRIBUTION, "THUG CRY" WHICH FEATURES AN INTERPOLATION OF SOULS OF MISCHIEF'S "93' TILL INFINITY" DOPE TRACK LOVE IT. NOT LOVING THE LIL' WAYNE VERSE THOUGH. DUDE HAS TO RETIRE. HE SOUNDS SO REDUNDANT.
HOUSTON, TEXAS STRAIGHT SHOOTERS SCARFACE AND Z-RO BRINGS SOME AUTHENTICITY TO THE MELLOW, "BLESSING IN DISGUISE" IT IS REALLY GOOD HEARING SCARFACE DO HIS THANG ON HERE. Z-RO FLIPS THE SCRIPT IN HIS TRADEMARK SING SONG STYLE. WHAT IS NOT TO LOVE ABOUT HIM.
mastermind does not excite me. i'm sorry ...... HONEST.