Rick Ross rolled out “Turnpike Ike” from his forthcoming Port Of Miami 2 album during an episode of Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio with Zane Lowe on Tuesday morning (August 6).
During their conversation about the upcoming music, Rozay touched on his relationship with the late Nipsey Hussle, who was shot and killed on March 31. He described Nip as “next level” and believes it’s up to his fans and peers to carry out Nip’s purpose.
“I couldn’t fathom it and I’ve been a fan of his since, I want to say ’09,” he said. “I knew he had a purpose and I knew he understood he had a purpose, and I knew he understood he was in position to speak for a lot of people that couldn’t speak for themselves. And me looking for an artist, that’s one of the first things I look for.
“You could be dope, you could be fly, you could have whatever it is. Whatever it is, but do you understand your purpose? And that’s something that when I think back to early Meek Mill when we did that ‘Tupac Back’ record. In no way was I saying he was Tupac, but I just seen the struggles that he was dealing with and he was facing. And I just wanted to put him in that light and a lot of people see that now.”
Rozay also made it clear he was impressed with Nipsey’s many roles and how he was able to balance them all.
“And just to know Nipsey’s vision and to see what he was doing,” he said. “In those conversations we always had him being an entrepreneur, him being a father, him being a leader, you know what I’m saying? He understood his position, and so we got to make sure we continue to celebrate homie purpose.”
“And me just being able to collaborate on that record, ‘Rich Nigga Lifestyle,’ which once again is talking about the longevity and understanding the sacrifices you have to make to make it to that upper echelon, baby.”
“Rich Nigga Lifestyle” featuring Nipsey is one of 15 tracks included on Port Of Miami 2. Wale, Meek Mill, Drake and YFN Lucci are among the many contributors to the long awaited project.
Listen to the full interview below.
Hell yeah. I’ll celebrate Nippsey being a crip gangsta! Gang members are good for the community! Crips are great role models for American youth.
Hell yeah. Just like we celebrated the KKK. They all need to be celebrated right ? You being righteous how many lives have you impacted positively?Hater!!!
I’ve saved multiple lives. I’m a volunteer fireman. I have impacted MANY lives positively. I also donate time to Veterans Outreach, Donate to St. Judges Hospital. When I said to celebrate gang culture, I was obviously talking shit, and you bringing up the KKK is essentially agreeing with me, that gang culture is ignorant, stupid, scumbag BS. Crip or KKK, both are full of scumbags who spread hatred, violence, ect.
And what is your purpose Officer Ricky? Poisoning the minds of the youth with your made up dope dealer fantasies and mob talk??? When in reality you never lived that life, you used to search young black inmates butts for drugs?
Tupac was a balerina thug.
He still spent time locked up in a cell getting cavity searches from a guy like Ricky
A ballerina thug who shot at cops while real thugs run from cops. Now who’s the ballerina?
Tupac didn’t “shoot at cops” lol. He shot at two men, who he had no idea were cops, as they were off duty, after a heated argument over poor driving skills. It’s not like Pac was going around, intentionally shooting at cops, as you are implying. Tupac was a fake thug. He was a good actor. He was the fruit who decided to play gangster. He took on the lifestyle and roles of a jackass hoodrat, which is why he was murdered. If Pac didn’t act the thug life, he’d be alive today. But he couldn’t shut his mouth, and made violent threats to everyone and their mother, literally speaking. I love pacs music, and I used to be a diehard Pac fan, until you learn enough about MC NEW YORK to find he’s an actor. Yeah, MC NEW YORK decided to rep Cali afterwords lol.
And yet ross is still putting out classic albums while 50 can’t even get an album out these days.
Why do you keep talking about 5? I know Officer Ricky has no buzz and needs to talk about other men or make songs with Drake to get attention but what why are YOU mentioning 50 Cent multiple times on Rick Ross article oth no mention of 50 Cent on it.
Rick Ross has not one classic album, let alone “albums”. Peep the top 50 rapper lists hes absent or low ranked.
I wish we could trade Nipsey for this fat clown. He’s never been about shit, except when he overdosed on lean and wingstop and defecated on himself… he was all about shit then
Goofy
I don’t want anyone dead at all. And ross had a seizure from exhaustion. Not from lean
Goddamn another single Rozay? We getting the whole album before you actually put it out? Must still be searching for that buzz, Port Of Miami 2 the new Detox.
Except people were actually looking forward to Detox at one point in time.
Shit Id buy Detox today lol. I still cry for Dr Dre
People still listen to this Cop. We cancelled Six nine for snitching. But this dude was a whole cop. Same flow since 05
Stop it… that shit is old… only u dweebs who were never in the streets at all care about that… notice that the ones who were really in the streets dont even bring that shit up…. its u clowns that have never spent a day in the streets acting like yall know the code
Your boy, 50 cent is desperate for attention.
Dude has no style. No identity. No bars. No truth.
He does. Besides, eminem never really killed people and yet people still suck his dick.
I liked god forgives I don’t.
I got that wide body im a fat mother fucker. Helium screaming stack mother fucker.