A Rick Ross lyric from 2009 that many assumed to be about Diddy‘s business history has resurfaced recently, with many wondering if there was more to it than meets the eye.
The line appears on the Bawse’s track “Magnificent,” a John Legend collaboration that is about Ross’ business success with lines like “I made a transition from the thieves/ To the biggest executive Def Jam’s ever seen“
At the very end of the song, Ross raps, “The game never change, money still a focal/ But it’s time to rape the game, like Puffy did Total“).
Given the context of the song, it was a line many thought was about an exploitative financial relationship between the R&B group and their label, Diddy’s Bad Boy Records
Total sang on some of the label’s biggest songs, including the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy.” The group released albums with the label in 1996 and 1998 that went platinum and gold, respectively.
Once sexual assault allegations against Diddy — first from former Bad Boy artist Cassie and then from multiple other women — surfaced, some began wondering if Ross’ lyric may have been about more than shady contracts.
With all this Diddy stuff going on…I’m surprised nobody pulled up that Rick Ross bar from Magnificent when he said.. “but its time to rape tha game like Puffy did Total,” wrote one observer.
“I need to know what Rick Ross meant when he said “its time to rape the game like Puffy did Total,” another weighed in.
Ross and Diddy have been close for well over a decade, with the Miami rapper even lauding Puff’s business acumen in interviews.
“The experience and the knowledge that Diddy possesses is priceless,” Ross told MTV News back in 2009, the year “Magnificent” was released. “The relationships that he’s accumulated over the last 20 years is priceless for a young artist such as myself. We developed a mutual friendship. We just stayed in contact. I was calling him for advice anyway. He was doing it for free: ‘What you think about that, homey? Help me get this, homey…’ He was doing so many different things for me on that level.”
This is not the only old lyric of Ross’s to resurface following the Diddy accusations.
Recently, Ross’s longtime adversary 50 Cent — who has delighted in trolling Diddy since the news about Cassie became public — dragged Rozay into the conflict by rehashing some of the Maybach Music Group boss’ most controversial bars.
Diddy was accused last month of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman back in 1991.
When the song was first released in 2013, it led to Reebok dropping Rick Ross from an endorsement deal. The rapper later apologized and said he didn’t “condone” rape.
