The album starts off with the mellow production from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Maybach Music 2, which features stellar performances from Kanye West, T-Pain, Lil Wayne and even Rick Ross himself.  The flow of the album continues with Yacht Club. The Boss states in order to join this type of life, you really need to have your stock up.  On Usual Suspects, he trade verses with Nas, showing how “nasty” he is with one of the legends in the game.

Even though he is not one of the greatest lyricist in the game, he does show growth on Rich Off Cocaine.  As he displays having the Scarface-type success, he does, however, have an epiphany at the end of the song and his best lyrics of the entire album:

“Vacation to Haiti/It nearly broke my heart/Seein’ kids starve I thought about my Audemar/Sellin dope ain’t right/I put it on my life/Chickens put me in position to donate the rice”

During the course of the album, he does take shots at the G-Unit general on such songs as Valley of Death (You never was a G nigga, Unit means together), In Cold Blood, and last but not least, the song that started it all, Mafia Music.

The album does have some songs that interrupt the flow like The-Dream featured track “All I Really Want” is more of The-Dream track instead of Rick Ross.

However, Rick Ross has once again delivered another pleasing release. He may not be known for his lyrics, he does know who to put together fan pleasing album, which he has a variety of singles he can choose from and can be carried over into the summer.  This album is by far, one of the best albums out so far this year.

Grade: B

Kevin Petway
The WaterBoy