Your stock just went up, Rick Ross

In case you fruits haven't heard, Rick Ross and Foxy Brown are an item now. Supposedly, Rick Ross has been taking her around to meet his family, and she's gonna move down to Florida so she can be closer to him. And then there's that picture, above, of her giving him what must have been a serious grief-on.

As I mentioned in my post at XXL just now, I'm assuming this is one of those PR-arranged relationships in which both parties stand to benefit, at least to a certain degree.

I can't remember where, but I think I read somewhere once that Rick Ross did some ghostwriting for Trina. And I'm assuming Foxy Brown has been hard up for someone to help her with her lyrics as of late. Supposedly, her last album was so bad she actually went so far as to issue a press release stating that she didn't intend for it to be released.

I never got around to hearing it, nor hardly any of her other albums, other than that very first one, back in the day, which I actually bought. It was about as gay as you'd imagine, but I found the pictures in the booklet... shall we say, useful. (I'll maintain to this day that Lil' Kim's album, Hard Core, which I also had, was fucking nails.)

But if it was so bad that she doesn't even consider it on a par with the rest of her BS, you'd have to think it's pretty bad. Which would suggest to me that either the guy she had working on it wasn't up to par, or maybe she even tried writing it herself. Maybe the guy who wrote it was that pimp who sent his hoes to beat her up and steal her hearing aid. Obviously, she couldn't go back to him.

Also, it was determined recently by the mailroom over at MTV that Rick Ross is one of the hottest MCs in the game right now, right up there with Kanye West and Jay-Z. So I'm sure she'd benefit from being with him just by association, similar to how they keep letting Fat Joe get on those god-awful DJ Khaled posse cuts with the likes of Lil Wayne and T-Pain and what have you.

Rick Ross' end of the deal is a bit trickier, in that, even though he's continuing to redefine fucked up-looking by the day now, I'm sure he doesn't have any problem at all pulling broads better-looking than Foxy Brown. Those cans might be bulbous and jiggly, but she's gotta be like 30 now, not to mention her being crazy, and deaf, and her legendary personal hygiene issues.

The thing is, when you're one of these rappers, there's a certain value in banging a broad who's a celebrity, even if she might be lacking otherwise. At least people know who she is. And I'm assuming that's the reason you see all of these rappers taking up with these R&B chicks. They could almost certainly find better-looking pussy (or, failing that, a series of decent-looking ones), but there's an added of degree of achievement in getting some actual names under your belt.

And of course it's gonna be even more important for a guy like Rick Ross, whose appeal as a rapper - his brand image, if you will - lies in his ability to succeed in the bedroom despite his personal appearance. It'd be one thing for him to spread his love on some attractive woman no one ever heard of; but we'd all just assume her other option would be to live in a trailer. But for Rick Ross to be having his way with a woman who's not completely desperate... that's pimping. I'm not actually gonna buy any of his albums, but I'd say my respect for him has definitely gone up a notch.