When Rick Ross was beefing with 50 Cent, a lot of fans of music made fun of the Bawse as someone who “doesn’t even have a platinum album”.
Well, that can be put to rest finally. As Ross celebrates the 10 year anniversary of his debut album Port of Miami, he can take the festivities to next level as the album has also just been certified Platinum. This is his first album ever to cross the 1 million sales mark and the prominence of streams in the current climate probably has a huge role in it.
To celebrate the 10 year anniversary, Ross will be holding the “Tidal X: Port of Miami 10th Anniversary” concert at the actual Port of Miami in Florida’s Biscayne Bay on August 29th. It will be live streamed online for both subscribers and non subscribers. He told Rollingstone:
Port of Miami is turning 10. In the five or six years before that record came out you were sleeping on couches struggling to get this rap thing off. What were those years like?
You know, five years before Port of Miami, I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting … the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to. Miami is a party city, a go-fast city. Miami built on cocaine and killing. I was talking about coming up, being an entrepreneur, getting rich. Everyone wasn’t familiar or understood what to do with that music. So a lot of people just basically felt it wouldn’t make it. So I just had to stay focused and I started doing other things. I started writing for other people and being in other studio sessions with other artists. That’s what got me that opportunity to get in the studio with a young Kanye while he was making beats for another artist. I wish I would have bought a lot of beats … at that time, but we had a lot of time to just sit in the studio and talk about different things.
Port of Miami was released in 2006 via Slip-N-Slide/Def Jam/Poe Boy and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, spawning the hit single ‘Hustlin’. The album featured guest appearances from Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Lloyd, Akon and more plus production from Cool & Dre, J.R. Rotem, The Runners, Jazze Pha, DJ Khaled and DJ Toomp.
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