Rozay aka the Ghostwriter!
Shout out to all the pears! With his new album Black Market set to invade the streets and digital world next Friday, Rick Ross was featured recently in TIME to promote his project. While opening up on staying neutral in the Drake vs. Meek Mill beef, then the obvious internal MMG rift that won’t go away, he went to share some news we’re sure your favorite rappers were nervous about first.
On the forthcoming LP, Rozay plans to open up for the first time about being a key “Ghostwriter” in hip-hop – outside of contributions to the career of one Puffy Combs this decade (see: MMM). It was already know that the Miami rapper-mogul was credited with Bad Boy, but he hinted at penning work for some of the biggest names in music at the moment.
Take a look at excerpts from the interview below.
How did your time in the headlines shape the direction of the album?
It most definitely made it a more personal record, it made it a more—I don’t want to use the word serious, but more a topic-driven record. I had a lot of time to just sit by myself, so I had a lot more things I wanted to address. That’s what I did on this LP. I spoke on different things. One of them goes by the name of “Ghostwriter.” I finally wrote a record telling the way it feels for me to be a ghostwriter, and not only a ghostwriter, but one of the biggest in the rap game. Because of my own personal success I’ve always been able to keep that in the shadows. On this record, I just felt it was so current.
Ghostwriting was a big topic this year with the feud between Drake and Meek Mill. Do you think that having someone write rhymes for you is necessarily at odds with being an authentic artist?
It depends on really the point you’re looking at. If you’re a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you’re an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it’s more understandable.
Someone who may have another vision or just ideas that are priceless versus someone who’s like, “I’m basing my entire career off the words I’m finna tell you right now over this 30-second period.” I’m not speaking to anybody in particular, but let’s say for instance if you was DMX and had a ghostwriter, it’d maybe change the [perception] versus if you was will.i.am. I think that’s more about the music, the records.
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