Rick Ross’s new album Mastermind came out on Tuesday, and he’s been all over the late-night TV circuit for the last few weeks. But he saved the big guns for last night’s performance on Arsenio. Doing the album highlight “Sanctified,” Ross performed with that song’s two guests, Kanye Wes...

Rick Ross was the musical guest on Late Night With Seth Meyers last night, and sadly, Fred Armisen’s house band of ’90s indie heavyweights did not back him up. Instead, Ross had his own live band, as well as the permanently stuffed-up Bronx rap star French Montana. Together, Ross and French did “Nobody,” t...

It feels like it’s been a lifetime since word leaked out that the actual backstory of William Leonard Roberts II, since we learned that his real prison-guard past couldn’t be further removed from the drug kingpin he likes to portray on record. His ability to sell that over-the-top and avowedly fake persona has been a [...]

Last week Rick Ross released the Mastermind track “Nobody” as a single, and Tom noted that French Montana’s hook repurposes the Notorious B.I.G.’s “You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You),” sending Rozay’s already high “Biggie Smalls corpse-humpery levels”...

Right now, the whole major-label system is such a mess that even A-list rappers have a hell of a time putting out albums. But after months of non-starter first-single attempts and release-date push-backs, Rick Ross is finally ready to release Mastermind, his proper sixth album. We’ve already posted a few of its tracks: “The D...