★★★★★
"First of all, it is the principal through which you may borrow and use the education, the experience, the influence and perhaps the capital of other people in carrying out your own plans in life. It is the principle through which you can accomplish in one year more than you could accomplish without it in the lifetime if you depend entirely upon your own efforts for success...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-04-08
★★★★★
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No one has rated this album. You can be the first. Rick Ross - MastermindRick Ross - MastermindRelease Date: March 4, 2014
Record Label: Maybach
Regardless of where you stand on his music, it's hard to deny the fact that Rick Ross has been a major talking point in hip-hop for more than a few years now...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2014-03-22
★★★★★
Regardless of where you stand on his music, it's hard to deny the fact that Rick Ross has been a major talking point in hip-hop for more than a few years now. Beyond his own solo projects that continuously garner a mass amount of attention, the bawse has been hard at work building up his Maybach Music Empire for the last few years, quickly making him and his MMG signees some of the most talked about artists in mainstream hip-hop today...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-03-21
★★★★★
People love to talk about Rick Ross, and now more than ever, they're disapproving. There have been a string of incidents -- some Ross's fault, others magnified because of the way the music press works -- that have vilified the man born William Roberts to the point that he was a tragic omission in Chuck Klosterman's I Wear the Black Hat, which covered the various ways we're both attracted and repelled by villainy in our artists, politicians, and sports franchises...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-03-08
★★★★★
Think back on all we've learned about Rick Ross since his 2006 debut album Port of Miami. He sells dope off the iPhone. His girls look like money bags. He wakes up to lobster bisque and reclines to the finest crab meats. Ross has pushed pomp at the expense of disclosure ever since he teased a serviceable personal style out of the paint-by-numbers Miami-Dade pimp chronicles of his early career...
- pitchfork.com
2014-03-06
★★★★★
Rick Ross's visceral rhymes about gangster grandiosity often focus on the spoils of success, but a sadness and greater emphasis on costs pervade the Floridian's sixth LP. Clearly, the drive-by attempt on Ross's life a year ago weighs heavily. A tighter track list homing in on its sombre (and stoner) moods would've been bolder, but to his credit Ross avoids commercial trendiness in favour of more personal - if familiar - forays into Philly soul, funk, 90s hip-hop and South Beach glam (courtesy...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-03-06
★★★★★
March 5, 2014
Miami boastmaster Rick Ross got to where he is by playing a hustler, a don, a master of outsize fantasies of golden-toilet luxury. But the seemingly untouchable king of self-invention - the man who once rapped, "The rumors turn me on, I'm masturbatin' at the top" - uses his sixth album to attempt the near-impossible: becoming a serious artist...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-03-06
★★★★★
7:45 - 8:30 P.M. Last night, New York City's, Best Buy Theater served host to Rick Ross' Mastermind album release concert. Upon entry, a bevy of Top Flight security guards greeted guests with, 'Have your own damn tickets out before you get on line!' Well, Ricky must have remained connected to some of his former co-workers. While descending a plethora of stairs I was again thankful I chose to wear my reliable and always comfy all-black Chucks...
- allhiphop.com
2014-03-05
★★★★★
"Mastermind" is simply a hodgepodge of classic Rick Ross tropes thrown into one and tagged with a title more fit for super-villainy. Listening to any Rick Ross record requires an overwhelmingly prodigious imagination. It also requires an innate appreciation of harmless deception; it's a lot like being an adult at a magic show: you know it's not really magic, but there's something wondrous about having your perception of reality challenged...
- www.hiphopdx.com
2014-03-05
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