Ice Cold - Intellectual

Now – instead of simply spending like a normal person to indulge in consumerism, Ross and his companion spend like dirt to show up in style, probably even more lavish than the stars of the events he goes to attend.

Spanish for “close your mouth” or simply, “shut up”.

Jill Scott is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet and actress.

Reference to Maybach O’s smash single Ice Box.

Audemar Piguet watches is MMG’s offical watch apparently. Ross also dropped a mixtape named after the watch.

This is a double entendre. In basketball, the baseline is the out-of-bounds area under the hoop. Really good 3 point shooters in basketball can nail the 3 right next to the baseline. The Miami Heat (who’s president Pat Riley was just named dropped in the previous line) have really good 3 point shooters.

But Ross is also saying he has shooters on the payroll (because of the mafioso lifestyle he lives), so act wisely or they will kill you.

An obituary is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, so Ross is saying he runs away from death.

This is perhaps the most “real” line from Rozay in his lyric history.

Ross alludes to his character of “Rick Ross” while making a statement about maintaining his work ethic, to ride.

If you were not already aware, The Biggest Boss is playing a character. William Roberts II was a High School football star, corrections officer, & family man. Rick Ross is the biggest music & drug peddling Bawse in the world of Hip Hop.

Rick Ross is the Stephen Colbert of Hip Hop

Their shameless self promotion, prolific output, and cult-like fan following is a function of playing a character.

The shameless self promotion: every single album he has released has his face on the physical CD. Evidence from Port of Miami, Teflon Don, & GFID – In the Rolling Stone article on him, the reporter wrote that he tweeted for “5 hours about his upcoming album” after he awoke one morning.
Stephen Colbert, amongst other things, spent a week on a US Aircraft Carrier and peddled Pepsi

To spend a week on a ship that even looks huge in Battleship is worth major boss points. Both Ross & Colbert are undeniable and unstoppable Bosses.

When you play a character, you never run out of material. See Colbert’s regular literary output & Rick Ross' never ending flow of mixtapes & albums as evidence.
Ross & Colbert’s ability to entertain comes from the mastery of their characters. Colbert studied Bill O'Riley, & Rick Ross studied Golden Era Hip Hop.

Also, Ross is a student of the Mafioso genre so it should not come as a surprise that he can rap about being a coke dealing gangster with proficiency. Rozay is a learned student.

Fisher Island is a neighborhood (on its own barrier island) of greater metropolitan Miami. It has the highest per capita income of any place in the United States. The several hundred souls who live there have indeed included Oprah and Jim Carrey, though Don King, Sammy Sosa, and Ross don’t appear to be residents

However, hip-hoppers have made an appearance on the island from time to time:
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Ross is referring to his girl’s role with him

“Tell you by the Greyhound”(Drug Trafficking): She could narrow down where the drugs were coming in from by the Greyhound bus
“Show you how to stay down” (Lay-Low): She keeps a eye out and lets him know when he catching heat. Could also mean she can show you how to stay down: She can should you how to have your man’s back 100%. Show you how to ride like a real woman would.
“Tell you bout to break down”: This is a personal glimpse into Ricky’s past. A memory of her about to break down back when things weren’t good.

Ross has many different ways of making money. He is a rapper, owns several Wingstop restaurants, has an endorsement deal with Reebok Classics, is signed to Ciroc Boys/managed by Diddy, etc. Simply put, Ross is an entrepreneur.

VS stands for “very slight” which means the diamonds are nearly flawless. You’d need to magnify it 10x to see flaws. That thing look purrrrrty.

The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners' demands for better living conditions.

Seeing as how Ross wasn’t alive for the Attica Prison riot, it’s a good bet that one of Ross' boys didn’t die during the Attica prison riot, he could have either died during a prison riot, or just have died while serving time at Attica Correctional Facility.

A “Dope Boy” is hardly around and barely has the time to spend with her because he out getting that money or either in Jail. So She cry because its nothing she can do, she misses him amd needs him.

“It is what it is” because that is the Lifestyle he lives and cant stop because he knows that’s the quickest way for him to bring in the money to provide for them.

Pat Riley coached the Miami Heat to a championship in 2006 & is also president and GM.