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Rick Ross
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Leonard Roberts II, The Boss, Teflon Don, William Roberts, William Leonard Roberts, William Roberts II, Rozay, Ricky Rozay
American rapper and record executive (born 1976)
OverviewAI-generated
Rick Ross is a male artist from Miami who began his work period in 2000. He performs under the pseudonyms "Renzel", "Rozay", and "The Boss". His musical style is categorized within hip hop, rap, Dirty South, southern rap, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop, and luxury rap. He has an official website and maintains a social media presence with 4,787,051 followers.
As an author, Rick Ross has seven works listed, including *The Explorers' Guild*, *Identity Switch*, *The 21 KEYS of Success*, *The Perfect Day to Boss Up*, and *How to Hustle and Win*. Crossref records five works associated with him. On Last.fm, he has 2,488,586 listeners and a total playcount of 37,775,144. His encyclopedia entry is referenced by 1,915 other articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- The Explorers' Guild
- Identity Switch
- The 21 KEYS of Success
- The Perfect Day to Boss Up
- How to Hustle and Win
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Miami
- Active from
- 1976-01-28
Discography
- The Maybach Edition
- Port of Miami2006
- Trilla2008
- Deeper Than Rap2009
- Teflon Don2010
- God Forgives, I Don’t2012
- Mastermind2014
- Hood Billionaire2014
- Black Market2015
- Rather You Than Me2017
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,488,586
- Total plays
- 37,775,144
Tags
William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), better known by his stage name Rick Ross, is an American rapper. He derived his stage name from the drug trafficker "Freeway" Ricky Ross. Ross founded the record label Maybach Music Group, on which he released his studio albums Deeper Than Rap ,Teflon Don, God Forgives, I Don't, Mastermind, Hood Billionaire, Black Market, Rather You Than Me, and most recently Port of Miami 2. William Leonard Roberts II was born in Coahoma County <a href="htt
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
· 2016 · cited 40,269x
- Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
· 2017 · cited 34,445x
- Mask R-CNN
· 2017 · cited 26,634x
- Fast R-CNN
· 2015 · cited 25,184x
- Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection
· 2017 · cited 24,381x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- William Leonard Roberts II , ( 1976-01-28 ) January 28, 1976 (age 50) , Clarksdale, Mississippi , U.S.
- Other names
- Rozay The Boss Renzel Teflon Da Don
- Occupations
- Rapper songwriter music executive
- Years active
- 2000–present
- Awards
- Full list
- Origin
- Miami-Dade County, Florida , U.S.
- Genres
- Southern hip hop gangsta rap
- Works
- Discography
- Labels
- Gamma Epic Maybach Def Jam Suave House Atlantic Slip-n-Slide Poe Boy
- Member of
- Triple C's
- Website
- rickrosspom2 .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rick
- Family name
- Roberts
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Clarksdale
- Educated at
- Albany State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Christianity
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.godforgivesidont.com
- Image
- Rick Ross in the trap! (cropped).jpg
Show 9 more facts
- pseudonym
- The Boss
- Commons category
- Rick Ross
- date of birth
- 1976-01-28
- social media followers
- 4787051
- name in native language
- Rick Ross
- birth name
- William Leonard Roberts II
- start of work period
- 2000-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- partner in business or sport
- Nipsey Hussle
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally as Rick Ross, is an American rapper and music executive. An influential figure in modern hip hop music, Rick Ross has become known for his "booming" vocal performance, "larger than life" persona, and vivid lyrical imagery. His lyrics form the hardships of street life and black market economic activity into a rags to riches narrative, often describing affluence, wealth, and luxury.
Prior to releasing his debut single, "Hustlin'" in March 2006, Ross was the subject of a bidding war—receiving offers from Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment and Irv Gotti's Murder Inc.—and ultimately signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Jay-Z on Def Jam Recordings. His debut studio album, Port of Miami (2006), peaked atop the Billboard 200, along with his second and third albums, Trilla (2008) and Deeper Than Rap (2009). His fourth album, Teflon Don (2010) spawned the single "Aston Martin Music" (featuring Drake and Chrisette Michele)—which received triple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—while his fifth and sixth albums, God Forgives, I Don't (2012) and Mastermind (2014), peaked the Billboard 200 twice more.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rick Ross” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.