Rick Ross - Blow: Track Review
From the forthcoming Port of Miami.
So Rick Ross is Jay-Z's new Young Jeezy. Not that anything's happened to the original Young Jeezy (yet), but I guess once you find a formula that works, you roll with it. In that sense, Rick Ross can be viewed as the David Coverdale to Young Jeezy's Robert Plant.
Continuing with a retarded metaphor, "Hustlin'" would then be Rick Ross' "Here I Go Again." I wouldn't normally listen to anything like it, but it remains a shining example of that particular style of music. It'll be interesting to see how Port of Miami stacks up to Led Zeppelin IV, i.e. Thug Motivation 101. Um, sorry.
This new single, "Blow," fortunately, manages to pick up right where "Hustlin'" left off. Rhyming a bit faster than he did on "Hustlin'," Rick Ross actually kinda sounds like 'Pac, or at least Jim "Dirt Angel" Jones doing his best 'Pac impression. He still doesn't have a whole lot to say, but in this kind of rap you don't need thoughtful lyrics.
It's the beat by Cool and Dre, though, that makes the song. Any ol' d-bag from the South would sound pretty decent rhyming on this. And Dre saves the chorus (something about having more money and more cars) with his best Pharrell impression, which is actually a bit less grating than the original.
Stream "Blow."
