Rick Ross is releasing his 8th studio album Black Market on December 4th featuring the lead single ‘Sorry’ featuring Chris Brown. The video for the song starring his fiancee Lira Galore is due to debut this week but before that, Ross has unveiled the artwork for Black Market.
Apart from releasing both the standard and deluxe edition covers, Ross also speaks to Billboard about the concept of the album.
How did you approach it differently than your past work?
You know, a lot of times I love writing in the capacity of groups of people, clubs, visions; rarely is it intimate moments where you’re just totally confined to yourself. And I did a lot of writing and I had a lot of time to do that. The music kind of came out that way.
You said that your last album, Hood Billionaire, was an album for the streets. Is there a concept for this one?
You know, this album is, I feel like, most definitely gonna be a Rozay on a higher, intellectual level, just discussing a different array of things. When you listen to records like “Foreclosure,” that’s like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that’s running across my mind and things that have been bothering me. And during my incarceration, that was the type of music I created. Just in that short moment of time, I really just sat there… I’m a muthafucka that flies six million miles a year and just to halt one day, out of the blue, for three weeks? It’s just, “Woah.” There’s a lot of shit that I wrote and a lot of shit that I thought about. I came back out and scrapped a lot of music and I recorded some dope songs, but my first day home I recorded six records. So that’s why I was able to put out the Black Dollar record and have been releasing a slew of freestyles, just feeding the fans and everybody that’s been asking for that Rozay music.
deluxe edition artwork
Also listen to his remix of Drake’s ’30 For 30′ below.