MMG boss, Rick Ross has detailed being a ghostwriter on his soon-to-be-released album, Black Market. The rapper has labeled the impending album his most personal yet of all his releases.
Ross opened up to TIME on why he titled one of the tracks on the album, Ghostwriter, saying he bared it all on the track.
“I finally wrote a record telling the way it feels for me to be a ghostwriter, and not only a ghostwriter, but one of the biggest in the Rap game,” he says of the track, “Ghostwriter.” “Because of my own personal success I’ve always been able to keep that in the shadows. On this record, I just felt it was so current. It was needed“
The rapper whose label act, Meek Mill viciously attacked Drake for having ghostwriters said he doesn’t necessarily see the act of ghostwriting as a bad thing.
“It depends on really the point you’re looking at,” Ross says. “If you’re a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you’re an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it’s more understandable. Someone who may have another vision or just ideas that are priceless versus someone who’s like, ‘I’m basing my entire career off the words I’m finna tell you right now over this 30-second period.“
Rick Ross’ album is scheduled for release on December 4th.
