Hurricanes: A Memoir

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

“A gripping adventure.”—People

The extremely expected memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his celebrity-studded controversies and his unstoppable upward thrust to reputation.

Rick Ross is an indomitable presence Within the track trade, however few other folks understand his complete tale. Now, for the primary time, Ross provides a brilliant, dramatic and hastily candid account of his early formative years, his tumultuous youth and his dramatic ascendancy on this planet of hip-hop.

Born William Leonard Roberts II, Ross grew up “around the bridge,” in a Miami at odds with the glitzy seashores, nightclubs and yachts of South Seaside. Within the aftermath of the 1980 race riots and the Mariel boatlift, Ross got here of age on the top of town’s crack epidemic, whilst house invasions and execution-taste killings have been not unusual. Nonetheless, in the middle of the chaos and risk that surrounded him, Ross flourished, first as a standout highschool soccer participant after which as a dope boy in Carol Town’s infamous Matchbox housing initiatives. All of the at the same time as he honed his musical skill, overcoming setback after setback till a music referred to as “Hustlin’” modified his lifestyles ceaselessly.

From the making of “Hustlin’” to his first top label maintain Def Jam, to the debate surrounding his earlier as a correctional officer and the a lot of well being scares, arrests and feuds he needed to go beyond alongside the best way, Hurricanes is a revealing portrait of probably the most greatest stars Within the rap recreation, and an intimate have a look at the beginning of an artist.