THE BOSS IS BACK: RICK ROSS SCORES #1 SOUNDSCAN DEBUT IN CANADA & BIGGEST CAREER SALES WEEK WITH GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T
THE BOSS IS BACK: RICK ROSS SCORES #1 SOUNDSCAN DEBUT IN CANADA & BIGGEST CAREER SALES WEEK WITH GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T
(MAYBACH MUSIC/DEF JAM RECORDINGS)
(Aug. 8, 2012 – Toronto, ON) Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Canada’s hip-hop magnate Rick Ross, weighs in this week with a #1 Canadian Soundscan debut for GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T (released July 31st), his first time debuting at #1 in Canada. Sales were boosted by a flurry of singles and visuals from the project, including “Touch’N You” feat Usher, “So Sophisticated” feat. Meek Mill, the controversial and stunningly dark “Hold Me Back”, and the triumphant “3 Kings” feat. Dr. Dre and Jay-Z. The #1 debut of GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T follows in the tradition of Rick’s Port Of Miami (2006), Trilla (2008), and Deeper Than Rap (2009), all #1 Soundscan debuts in the U.S. “It’s my best body of work yet,” Ross told an expectant crowd at a recent Manhattan press conference. “GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T is a very dark story…it’s extremely lyrical. The music is next level. I’m expecting nothing but the biggest results. That’s what’s needed, and I’m going to deliver!” In addition to Usher, Rick is joined on the new album by an A-list of collaborators, including fellow Def Jam artist Ne-Yo (on “Maybach Music IV”), Dr. Dre and Jay-Z (on the single, “3 Kings”), André 3000 of OutKast (on “Sixteen”), Maybach Music artist Meek Mill (on the single “So Sophisticated”), Maybach Music artist Wale and Drake (on “Diced Pineapples”), and Maybach Music artist Stalley (on the album’s epic 7-minute closing track “Ten Jesus Pieces,” one of three album cuts produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League). GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T is the long awaited follow-up to Teflon Don (released July 2010), which spun off the back-to-back Top 5 R&B/Rap crossover hits “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)” featuring Styles P, and “Aston Martin Music” featuring Drake and Chrisette Michele (#1 Rap). Other guests on that album included Ne-Yo, Kanye West, Cee-Lo Green, Jay-Z and John Legend together on one track, Trey Songz and Diddy together, T.I., Jadakiss and Erykah Badu together, and more. In support of GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T, hip-hop’s biggest boss conducted an exhaustive promo tour that took him across the U.S. and back. Next week, Wednesday, August 15th, Rick returns to CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman. And arriving on newsstands on Friday, August 17th: Ross' first ever cover story for Rolling Stone magazine - a milestone in his burgeoning career. Rick Ross rose from ruling Miami’s underground rap scene, to become 2006’s buzz-worthiest hip-hop artist with Port Of Miami, his RIAA gold #1 Pop/#1 R&B/#1 Rap major label debut album. Its unstoppable single “Hustlin’” became the first mastertone ever certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of 1 million copies before the associated album had even been released. Port Of Miami’s second single was “Push It,” whose movie soundtrack excerpts (circa 1990) from Giorgio Moroder’s “Scarface (Push It To The Limit),” evoked the gritty soul of Miami, a city that is always on the edge of exploding. Six-foot-two, 300-pound Rick Ross – a “hip-hop heavyweight,” as described by the New York Times – came into his own on Trilla, whose second single release, “The Boss,” featuring T-Pain – Rick’s second RIAA platinum mastertone – rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot Rap chart, #5 R&B, and Top 20 on the Hot 100. The next single, “Here I Am” featuring Nelly and Avery Storm, also hit Top 10 on the Rap and R&B charts. Deeper Than Rap, followed in 2009, named the #4 top-selling hardcore hip-hop album of the year by Interference.com. Deeper Than Rap got a big jump out the gate with its first single, “Magnificent” featuring John Legend, Top 5 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Tracks chart and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Check for Rick Ross news on his website: www.Godforgivesidont.com- 30 -