Remember several years ago when street credentials actually superceded talent? It didn’t matter that your wordplay was slick if your gunplay racked up more toe tags than the Vietnam war. Why dodge bullets when you could actually catch them with your chest and sell a few hundred thousand more copies of your latest gangster rap album/paraphernalia?

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It’s Hollywood. It’s the director’s guild. That’s the question you gotta ask those people. What we’re doing, is we created a way to eat. If they don’t like it, f**k them.  We eating. We’re communicating with our people. That cracker Don Imus, he said what he said and now when I come to New York, they got five billboards of this racist cracker blowing up everywhere. He’s bigger now than he was last year. For all you geniuses, they need to be addressing that shit. We’re addressing the struggle. And now, they try to turn it around hip-hop. Yeah, it’s cool. We can take it though. They on the outside. We decide what we label the music. We decide what music we make. We decide what music is hot. That’s what they need to face.

–RICK ROSS