It regularly bothers me that Rick Ross, the supersized Florida rapper who counts Jay-Z, Dre, Usher and André 3000 among his many collaborators, continues to go relatively unknown on this side of the pond, but I’ve got high hopes that his star-studded fifth LP God Forgives, I Don’t will finally put him on a par with his bling-draped cohorts. Fancy plunging yourself into a world where autographs are traded for blow jobs and gunned-down comrades remembered with vodka parties at the Super Bowl? The 36-year-old’s surprisingly un-Jewish mixtape, The Black Bar Mitzvah provides the perfect introduction to Ross’ entirely superficial world. Kanye West turns up on the theatrically thughardy ‘Don’t Like’, rapper du jour Drake lends a bar to string-led gangsta jam ‘Us’ and Pharrell Williams practically melts into the melody on the Erykah Badu-sampling ‘Presidential RMX’. Get it for bubcus at the below address.
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