Rick Ross Addresses Controversial Trayvon Martin Line on “Mastermind”

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Rick Ross Addresses Controversial Trayvon Martin Line on “Mastermind”
 

After sharing a stream of his new album, Mastermind, for fans to preview on iTunes last night, Rick Ross found more controversy today over the line “Trayvon Martin, I’m never missing my target.” The line appears on the song “Blk & Wht.”
 

Today also marks the two-year anniversary of Martin’s death.
 

Ross reached out to VIBE in an email to offer a statement on the line. Here’s what he had to say:
 

It’s so important that today, on the two-year anniversary of the death of Trayvon Martin, we never forget that tragedy. I’m never going to let the world forget that name. In my song ‘Black and White’ off Mastermind I say, ‘Trayvon Martin, I’m never missing my target’. There I’m reminding people that if you’re a black person or a person of any color for that matter in this country, you have to be accurate, whatever moves you make, stay accurate. Even when you’re walking down the street, playing music from your car, you have to stay on point.
 

Black men are being killed and their killers [are] beating the trial. It hasn’t been this much violence against black men since the ’60s. I am Trayvon Martin, we’re all Trayvon Martin. He was from South Florida. That could have been me or one of my homies. So, stay alert and never miss your target. Whatever that target may be. Getting out the hood, providing from your family. Stay sharp. Stay alive. Trayvon, Rest in Peace.
 
 
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This isn’t the first time Ross has found himself defending his lyrics. Last spring, he lost an endorsement deal with Reebok over the lyric ”Put Molly all in her champagne/She ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that/She ain’t even know it” from the remix of Rocko‘s “U.O.E.N.O.” The lyric was generally perceived as endorsing date rape, and Ross eventually released a statement apologizing.
 

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The line is just a poor display of lyricism but it's even worse when you read the intended meaning behind it. 
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Nah that's not what he meant at all lol. I mess with the album HEAVY but ill admit when I heard that line It irritated me pretty bad
 
What's worse, this, or the Lil' Wayne's Emmett Till line?
 
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:lol: at his explanation. Dude thinks we are that dumb huh? He knows damn well what he meant with that line :smh:
 
Rozay needs a better team around him.

This got the green light from multiple people besides himself.
 
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Philosophiae Dr said:
 
Rozay needs a better team around him.

This got the green light from multiple people besides himself.
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Just like how he got the green light for his molly in her champagne lyric.

Prolly had dudes in the studio like 
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 after he said that hyping him up.
 
thats his second time referencing that situation on wax...on usher's song let me see he says " Looking like Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman dont want it"
 
There's a better way to do it.

Pusha's Trayvon/Avon line is amazing (from "Pain"). Almost jumped out of my chair when I first heard it.

Ross is just corny. I'll give his album one listen through on the phone, then that's it. Sick of hearing about million dollar funerals and whatever else he dreams up.
 
Say controversial lines to get publicity for your album breh's :pimp:

After the Molly line and that lil Wayne line on Karate Chop I refuse to believe he didn't see this coming, he can't be that stupid, imma just give him the benefit of the doubt and assume this was intentional :lol:
 
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he can't be that stupid
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The same guy that looked at a picture of himself that he knew damn well he took and tried to tell us it was photoshopped?

This dude been on this ******** for the longest.

Of course he can be that stupid.

He at least thinks a lot of YOU are that stupid.
 
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you can't even alonzogif react and say well the lyric was on point

it's not, it's a dumb lyric every which way
 
Between this and Nikki Minaj's Malcolm X explanation this has been an interesting Black History Month musically.
 
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