By Rahman Dukes
Rick Ross has been on a tear these past few weeks in the wake of his street release, the Albert Anastasia EP. Even though it got competition from T.I.'s F--- a Mixtape and Drake's debut LP, thanks to tracks like "BMF" and "MC Hammer," the mixtape has made major noise — and his Teflon Don album is coming later this year.
On Monday we'll have Ross talking about the EP in Mixtape Daily, but you can check out this snippet of live footage right here.
Diddy, who recently took on management duties for the MC, raved about Ross and the EP.
"That Albert Anastasia [EP] is up there to me as one of the hardest mixtapes in history," Puff said during a Def Jam conference call with Ross and DJ Khaled. "[Ross] doesn't talk about the regular stuff you hear cats talking about now. Everything he talks about is from his soul and from his heart. He approaches the record from a real standpoint. You can tell he's approaching it from an honest standpoint. The tone of his voice, I've always been wanting to work with artists that have a certain vocal tone. He sounds like a giant. He is a giant, and he has that personality.
"He's a very unique artist," Diddy continued. "He's bigger than just an artist; he's a brand. That's one of the reasons I wanted to work with him, because I felt like we could do bigger and better things. Having worked with Biggie, somebody that also was talking about things from the streets — I'm not comparing him to Biggie, before we start going down that road, but I am saying that there are similarities in the mental approach of a record that I do have a familiarity with."
Drake the Great? This cat is really catching fire quick. A lot of the fans and other rappers are tapping him as