VIDEO: Shooting At Rick Ross’ Album Release Party (With Diddy) In Atlanta

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A shooting took place at Rick Ross’s Mastermind album release party in Atlanta at the popular nightclub Velvet Room. The DJ at the party got into an altercation with another person in the back of the club and shots were fired. Uniformed police officers were working security at the party and went after the DJ. They identified themselves to him but according to the police, that’s when the DJ started shooting back at the officers. They returned fire, hitting the subject in the leg.

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Rick Ross Faces Backlash For ‘Trayvon Martin’ Lyric; Responds In Defense

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Here we go again….Rick Ross may or may not be facing some flack for a rap lyric that’s found on his new album Mastermind (which hasn’t even dropped yet), but he’s already on spin control. From VIBE:

His sixth solo album Mastermind was made available for streaming on iTunes last night and already the larger-than-life rapper’s rhymes are being scrutinized. Namely a line on the album’s eleventh track “Black & White,” on which the Miami MC makes a questionable reference to slain teenager Trayvon Martin.

“Trayvon Martin, I’m never missing my target,” he raps, referencing the Florida boy who was killed two years ago today by George Zimmerman. Now, six days before the March 4 release of Mastermind, Ross clarifies the meaning behind his controversial words.

“It’s so important that today, on the two-year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, we never forget that tragedy,” Ross says in a quote emailed exclusively to VIBE. “I’m never going to let the world forget that name. In my song ‘Black and White’ off Mastermind I say, ‘Trayvon Martin, I’m never missing my target’. There I’m reminding people that if you’re a black person or a person of any color for that matter in this country, you have to be accurate, whatever moves you make, stay accurate. Even when you’re walking down the street, playing music from your car, you have to stay on point.”

He continues: “Black men are being killed and their killers [are] beating the trial. It hasn’t been this much violence against black men since the ’60s. I am Trayvon Martin, we’re all Trayvon Martin. He was from South Florida. That could have been me or one of my homies. So, stay alert and never miss your target. Whatever that target may be. Getting out the hood, providing from your family. Stay sharp. Stay alive. Trayvon, Rest in Peace.”

TEASER: Rick Ross Feat. French Montana & Diddy – Nobody (Official Video)

This kind of puts the cart before the horse (thanks in part due to us being late in the first place), but those who caught Rick Ross’ latest video (or didn’t, perhaps) should have seen the trailer of the official visual for the single ‘Nobody’, which features Diddy and French Montana.

If you didn’t (or want to see it again), you can enjoy it above. You can also check out REVOLT TV’s version here.

BEHIND THE SCENES: Rick Ross Feat. Jeezy – War Ready; Jeezy Blesses Ross With A Gift (PIC)


UPDATE: REVOLT TV & VEVO has some more official footage from the ‘War Ready’ videoshoot (above).

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Above: a couple of quick Instagram clips of what to expect for Rick Ross’ upcoming visual for the Jeezy-assisted ‘War Ready’ (directed by TAJ). Looks like a movie.

Below: Jeezy gives Rozay a gift in the form of some Avion Reserva 44 while in New Orleans for All Star Weekend….complete with Rick Ross’ face on the bottle. Former frenemies to blooming bromance?

Mastermind drops March 4th.

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T.I. Speaks On Bringing Jeezy & Rick Ross Together….

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….which brought us the very dope record ‘War Ready‘. T.I. spoke on his role in the beef-squashing above (and below):

I ain’t gonna say I brokered peace and got them in the studio, I simply said to one of my closest partners in the game — Young Jeezy — I simply said to him, ‘We done did as much as we can do with this. It’s gone as far as we can take it, ain’t nothing else to do.

If it ain’t nothing that can’t be talked about, that hasn’t gone so far that a motherfucka can’t come back and do what the fuck we do man, get money. War costs money.

Young ain’t the type of motherfucka you can just tell what to do, but if you can present something that makes more sense then what he had, go on, he will give you the opportunity to make it make sense to him. And I think the same for Ross. They exhausted all of their other possible opportunities.

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BEHIND THE SCENES: Diddy Feat. Rick Ross & French Montana – Big Homie

As we all now know, Diddy is planning a new album that will apparently be executive produced by his artist French Montana. There is also no time to waste, either: REVOLT TV recently released a behind the scenes video clip for what looks to be Diddy’s first official release from the upcoming album, presumably titled MMM (or something like that). Can’t wait for the final product.