Video: Ryan Leslie & Rick Ross – “Maybachs & Diamonds” In-Studio
I’ve been asked quite a few times which I prefer more, being an artist or being a producer. I always reply that I love both equally and I especially enjoy when I can add value in both capacities to a record for someone else. In this case it’s remarkable to note that this record was conceived backstage at a show six months before I was able to actualize the concept in-studio.
Looking at the tracklisting for Rick Ross’ album, you’ll see that this record is missing. Our schedules were such that we were only able to facilitate the collaboration once that album had already been closed. Look for this to appear on his next one (or on mine.)
July 9th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
@Black
You can call the station & see if you got any charges, if not, they just wanna ask some questions
I remember my first time down homicide, I was 18 or 19, I just re’d-up, the police was outside of my house so I went in threw the back, put the work up then walked out front, then they took me downtown, they didn’t check me or nothing, but I still wasn’t taking that chance. Bitch ass cops, mu’fukkas ask me if I wanted a ride home, fuck no, niggas aint seeing me in no squad car getting dropped off, fuck that
July 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
niggas aint seeing me in no squad car getting dropped off, fuck that
^LMAO
You seen that shit where cops dropped off this dude in Harlem in a squad car and some neighborhood dudes ended up murking him? Oh my bad, that was an episode of Law & Order
July 9th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Oh my bad, that was an episode of Law & Order
^LMAO
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Beezy Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
niggas aint seeing me in no squad car getting dropped off, fuck that
^LMAO
You seen that shit where cops dropped off this dude in Harlem in a squad car and some neighborhood dudes ended up murking him? Oh my bad, that was an episode of Law & Order
^nah dead ass i rather get my ass whipped and left in the wrong neighborhood than get dropped home by the boys.. thats a death sentence in the hood
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
top is roc, you know the rest. . . .
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
When did having kids out of weddlock become cool.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
# Beezy Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
niggas aint seeing me in no squad car getting dropped off, fuck that
^LMAO
You seen that shit where cops dropped off this dude in Harlem in a squad car and some neighborhood dudes ended up murking him? Oh my bad, that was an episode of Law & Order
^^
You know Law & Order is real life.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Joe88 = Bubbles from The Wire?
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
top is roc, you know the rest. . . .
^a big bucket of frozen water on my chest
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
On the flip side, both Brooklyn rapper Maino’s long delayed debut, If Tomorrow Comes…and Ace Hood’s Ruthless are set to land in the 18-23K range.
***These are big 1st week numbers, now? Nah, right?
icon (trillbert arenas) Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Ryan Howard is your twin brother
**Ol’ Subway sammich scarfin’ lookin ass nigga (none, lol)…Ryan Howard got that KRS-One nose, lol (again, n/h)
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
*Harlem shakes to steve harvey stand up*
(pause)
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
sleep AKA Bernie Madoff aint a snitch Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
When did having kids out of weddlock become cool.
^oh the irony
July 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
the beat on this shit is sick. I’m a real big fan of R. Les.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
FTR Maino outsold Joe Buddens
July 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Michael Jackson has three of the five best-selling albums in the U.S. for the second week in a row. Number Ones sold 339,000 copies this week and would have held at #1 on The Billboard 200 if catalog albums were eligible to compete on that chart. (The 2003 compilation sold a little more than twice as many copies this week as NOW 31, the album that holds the #1 spot.) Thriller sold 187,000 copies and would have jumped from #3 to #2 if catalog albums were invited to the party. The Essential Michael Jackson sold 125,000 copies and would have dropped from #2 to #5. (Billboard excludes catalog albums from the big chart on the theory that new albums need the spotlight the chart provides more than past hits do.)
Jackson’s catalog of solo albums sold 800,000 copies this week, up from 422,000 copies last week. (This was the first full week following Jackson’s death on June 25. Last week’s total reflected just four days of sales.) Billboard reports that 82% of the Jackson albums sold this week were CDs (vs. digital downloads). Last week, 43% of the Jackson albums sold were CDs. I think this shows that on a special album, people want the CD as a keepsake. (What a retro concept!)
Jackson’s total song download sales this week, including hits with his brothers, stand at 2.2 million downloads, down just a little from 2.6 million last week. A total of 47 songs that feature Jackson are listed on the Hot Digital Songs chart
July 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
# Beezy Says:
You seen that shit where cops dropped off this dude in Harlem in a squad car and some neighborhood dudes ended up murking him? Oh my bad, that was an episode of Law & Order
^^
*rocks “Start Snitching” T-shirt with a green cirlce*
*walks to the projects*
July 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Come on omar trade pelfry and reyes for roy holladay. With santana and roy on the top of the rotation aint no other team fucking with us.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
boots timb
jeans guess
shirt ‘lo….
truck all red like tickle me elmo
July 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Joe88 = Bubbles from The Wire?
Nah nigga, i’m namonds father. Sheeed i’d fucked namond’s moms in a heart beat
July 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Joe 88 Says:
July 9th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
@Black
You can call the station & see if you got any charges, if not, they just wanna ask some questions
^^^I just called dude and he said that they just wanted background info on my homie. I’m going down there at 3, I hate talking to them niggas about anything fam. It’s definitely some major shit though cuz i talked to my man moms and she said that nigga ain’t even got a bail so i’m thinking that it’s gotta b a homicide in there somewhere.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
boots timb
jeans guess
shirt ‘lo….
truck all red like tickle me elmo
^Let me guess, Young Dro???
July 9th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
^^^I just called dude and he said that they just wanted background info on my homie.
^background info… shit, tell them cocksuckers to do their job. You most definitely do not have to provide NO INFO for those assholes. But you may want to save yourself the hassle of having them show up at your crib or job, like you said.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
dope !!!
July 9th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
this nigga R. Les makes sick ass prod right off the dome dam ….
July 12th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
sounds better than 9 of the tracks on the the album
October 28th, 2009 at 11:04 am
ross ft andre 3000 & scarface for MM3
ryan leslie’s maybachs and diamonds
rakims collaboration (verse) on a
song. three fucking dope songs!
already done for the teflon don
baws fourth album, defjam
maybach music group