Tales of extravagant spending, beautiful women, cocaine transactions, and other Scarface-type stories have been told by many an MC in Hip-Hop. But in recent years, it seems as if Williams “Rick Ross” Roberts as taken this blueprint and ran with it. Like all careers, his hasn’t come without a little bit of controversy, but those minor speed bumps in the road haven’t been able to derail his fourth solo album in four years; Teflon Don.
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It’s been almost 20 years since Antwan “Big Boi” Patton and André “3000” Benjamin thoroughly put Atlanta on the map. During their time, they’ve cranked out hit after hit, and solid album after solid album.
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If you go to any urban city in the country, odds are you’ll find 1,000 MC’s on every street corner sharpening their skills, and praying for super stardom. But as for the industry itself, you can easily count Hip-Hop superstars on one hand, and Marshall Bruce Mathers III is clearly among that elite and very short list.
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For their sixth-studio album, Nappy Roots decided to venture off and take their sound to another level while still managing to keep that humble, soulful sound that fans have come to expect and love from the Kentucky-natives.
One of the most seldom used words in the Hip-Hop vernacular happens to be ‘longevity.’ It may be a pretty common word when it comes to society as a whole, but within the Hip-Hop community, it’s almost non-existent.
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