Rick Ross recently sat down with TIME to talk his new album, Black Market. He of course talks music, but he also talks ghostwriting – a topic he’s never discussed in depth.
“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,” he says of the track, “Ghostwriter.” “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. It was needed.”
He went on to add, that being a recipient of ghost writing is not necessarily a bad thing.
“It depends on really the point you’re looking at,” he says. “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.’”
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