What’s Miami style to you?
You know Miami style really though
is colors, you know what I mean?
Summertime, you doing a lot of water,
beach, so you might see a lot of linen
like when we had that We Takin Over video
we had the white linen on,
the light turquoise colors,
and you see a lot of colorful things in Miami,
know what I’m saying, they’re so
diverse down there and it’s always warm
know what I’m saying, so anything
that you could just unbutton
and have on your wife beater
a nice pair of kicks, you good.
I know that you never leave home
without sunglasses
Never.
How many do you own?
I own maybe like 2,000 pair
Damn.
So what’s the next level in
sunglasses, like what are you into right now?
Um, me and my publicist, Gabe,
aka best publicist in the business,
we, um, we talking to a few people about
a shade deal, he gone get me a
update today.
But that’s naturally what’s next for me.
Designing my own.
Know what I mean, ‘cause
What have been some of your favorites
over the years?
I’m a be honest, I buy
I buy at least two or three pairs
of everything, you know what I’m saying
if you gotta credible in this in this valley,
you know what I mean, the firm line,
I’m a usually, and they fit nice,
homie usually buy ‘em anyway
but the ones that I actually fell
in love with a lot of like,
I love the Louis Vuitton Billionaire line,
you know what I’m saying, that’s special to me
and I also got a spot in LA off
La Brea, that, um, carry vintage
Gazelle shades like if you, like the 1987
Gazelle shades that came with the
Porsche Carrera 911 and I got a dude
that actually collects them and I’m missing
like two out of a twenty pair set, so.
You’ve done your research.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What other things are really important to you
I mean like top, head to toe, like
Um, I’m a keep it real, usually I’m kinda
I keep it, you know, when you see me in
the white tee it’s because you know that’s
that’s just that hood in me.
You know what I’m saying, I could’ve put on
a nicer shirt but fuck it
we used to always be on the corner
go somewhere, we just walk to
the corner store gas station and buy you
a little five dollar white tee.
That’s what made ‘em so popular,
‘cause you put ‘em on, they crispy
they clean, they white and that’s what it is and
that’s what that, that, that, that, that
that signify to me.
To get really like the perfect outfit
It’s like, if it’s, um, if it’s time to
celebrate, we gone take it to that next level
that’s what it is, know what I’m saying,
just like for New Years, Puff called me up
Ross.
You in town?
Bring the New Year.
You know, that’s how I did.
I brought it in.
I went and pulled it out,
you know what I mean.
Do you get ‘em specially made, or?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know I’m a big guy,
you know what I mean, I got one of those
real big, you know what I mean,
I aint wanna say a sexy body, but
you know what I mean.
I can’t just walk into Rochester and
expect that cut to fit my bulk and my
buffness, you feel me.
So I got my team that, that carve it out for me
and that’s what they did.
They put me a nice lil three piece together
know what I mean, that depressed area was real nice
know what I mean, Shaq, Shaquille knew what it was
Shaq Shaquille.
What’s up Shaq?
And when it comes to tattoos, ‘cause I know
that you’ve got like some pretty impressive tattoos
you get a chance to show them off in Miami
but where do you, tell me a bit about your tattoos.
Well my tattoos, you that I’m just spontaneous
and the crazy thing about my tats is
when I started I never cared about
you know, some dudes a do this and do that
and make sure it’s real pretty and
me?
95% of the time, I don’t give a fuck.
I go in there, zoning my mind out,
you know, I done been dealing with my dude so long
I only let one dude tat me and
he just know what it is.
Every time he come to my house I either have
a new car or something so he just start doing
shit that I bought.
How did you find him?
Uh, just in the neighborhood.
He started off doing airbrushing back in the days
and all that you know what I’m saying and
I remember when I first met him
he was doing some airbrushes for on Timberlands
and I walked in the shop and I told him
what I wanted.
And he was like what you want?
I said on my Timberlands I want you to put
“Rich Off Cocaine”
and then he stopped doing what he was doing
and just looked at me and was like
who the fuck are you?
I was like
Ross.
I left him $200 and my shoes and I left.
And he had a bunch of shit lined up,
he skipped all that shit.
And did my boots, “Rich Off Cocaine”.
Man them boots was famous in the hood.
I went back out in the hood,
put on my polo cargo pants, a white tee,
couldn’t tell me shit.
So from there he started doing your
Yeah, he started, and he actually started
on me, practicing.
Me and this brother.
Lot of shit he made mistakes on but I was like
I don’t give a fuck.
Just keep going.
Until it just got to a point where he
got better and better.
Know what I’m saying, and I just let him go.
Now they just, know what I mean.
What are some of your favorite, like,
things that you’ve done.
Wow.
My money.
That’s what it is, I get up every morning and I just
wake ‘em up and rub ‘em.
Tell ‘em come to daddy.
You see the Bentleys, the Cadillacs, shit I love,
when I first got my first million
popped a bottle of champagne and he gave me my
millionaire tat.
So really I look at my tats like when I get old
I’m a I’m a, I know the eras of my life.
I remember the times when I got ‘em,
what I was doing, what made me do it,
what inspired me, know what I’m saying.
So that’s what it is, it’s just my lifeline.
That’s lady justice.
That’s Richard Prior.
This the Mac.
We pimpin’ that bitch.
Know what I’m saying?
And then I believe in speaking shit into existence.
That say billionaire.
Feel me?
I had five mics on my neck before I ever
bought a Source Magazine.
Once I knew what it was, I was young,
said I’m a speak it into existence.
Teflon Don.
I aint going to prison.
My five start G Ricky Ross.
You cross me in the hood you gone pay for it.
The supreme word.
My marijuana, I’m untouchable.
My skull heads, my AK.
Know what I’m saying.
All this means shit to me.
Meaning that even if it aint in my hands
I’m gone get it.
‘Cause it’s always, you feel me?
Thirty-six ounces.
Ben Frank.
See that mask?
Dead presidents.
When you go to Compton, where must you go to like
Um, like when I come to New York I make it
I make it my, my thing to go to, uh,
it’s called The Flight Club
know what I’m saying, and
So you’re into kicks?
Yeah, I love the kicks,
especially, you know, the hard to find
I love to get shit from up here
go back home and show off
know what I’m saying, I’m still a kid at heart
when it come to that.
I like to yeah, nigga, you see that
yeah, you know what I’m saying.
Um, you know I still do that, so
I check that most definitely and the rest of the stuff
I just let Groovy Lu gather it up and bring it to me.
You super fly, like, you so fly.
You don’t even need an airplane ticket, baby.
Know what I mean?
Hovercraft.
I wear some shit like this to the Grammy’s, why not?
Nice jeans, why not?
I think I’m fly.
I’m a fly guy.
I was just at the fight at the um
Tito and Ray Jones fight
and one of Don King assistants had on a jacket
fourteen years old
and I told him I needed it.
That old print, that old leather,
you see how new jackets be real slim like
you talking about them big, thick, leather shits,
used to be yo MTV Raps.
With the crazy colors.
I told him, man, so I’m texting him every other day
Don, remember me?
The coat.
I need that.
You can’t fade us,
my jeans look faded
but we made it.
Fuck it.
Congratulate me.
Fader Mag.
Stay fly.
Boss.