Rick Ross, the gastric bypass candidate best known for songs like “Maybach Music” and “Aston Martin Music”, has debuted another video for his latest album “God Forgives, I Don’t” – simply called “911”.
After downloading the album last week, I scanned through the track list, and feared that the song title had some relation to September 11th, and that Ross would use it as a metaphor for crushing his rivals in the drug game (even though Ross was a prison guard before becoming a rapper).
Not so. The song is about the ubiquitous Porsche 911, which never really caught on with rappers until the start of this decade. The video doesn’t quite look like an exercise in product placement. The production values suggest a low-budget shoot with a Canon 5D MK II, and it’s hard to imagine Porsche wanting, or needing, to tie themselves up with someone like Ricky Rozay.
Porsche not bling bling enough for rappers.
Porsche 911s get pretty blingy with body kits and paint. Not to mention posuer features like center lock wheels that are so complicated that it is quicker to swap a five lug wheel.
This song combines rap and Porsche 911s, two things that were much better in the early ’90s.
This guy has absolutely no talent, but he understands business. As Freakonomics demonstrated, being an actual drug dealer is a financial blunder. Being an overpaid, generous benefits, no accountability unionized government employee like a prison guard on the other hand is rather shrewd.
In terms of current songs about cars Mercy is MUCH better despite:
1) Being about the previous generation top Lamborghini, the Murcielago, not the Aventador
2) Misspelling the abbreviation of the previous generation top Lamborghini
3) The video containing a Gallardo, not a Murcielago
Also, if you’re a rapper, it’s pronounced “Gull-ardo”
Maybach does not rhyme with payback.
PORSCHE DOES NOT RHYME WITH SAUCE
This guy owns a medallion of himself wearing a medallion of himself.
Rick Ross does have a bit of history in defining cool car trends. I can’t remember seeing a Bangle BMW with such prominence in rap before his white 7-series in Hustlin’. I see them all over the place now.
Gucci never put out a video for “745,” did he?
I’m surprised he can fit in a 911
This ‘music’ makes we want to go back to a time when popular music had lyrics, harmony, beauty and talent . . . . . . like the Sex Pistols. Compared to this crap, Johnny Rotten comes off as the second son of Franz Lizt.
I think I just heard Ferdinand roll over in his grave.