Rick Ross Announces ‘Port Of Miami’ 10-Year Anniversary Concert

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Rick Ross‘ debut album, Port of Miami. Released via Slip N Slide records, the album helped Ross reach fame with singles like, “Push It” and “Hustlin,” which introduced fans to the lifestyle of pushing cocaine, being an entrepreneur, and becoming a boss. Not to mention, rounding up features from Jay Z,  Jeezy, and Akon so early in the game.

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Today marks my 1st album ‘Port of Miami’ 10 year anniversary.

Here we are ten years later and the Miami-raised rapper has created an empire with his label MMG – launching the careers of Meek Mill, Wale, and more; as well as becoming the first rapper to sign to Diddy‘s Ciroc Management. In celebration of the album’s release, Rozay will be holding an anniversary concert for the album at the Port Of Miami in Biscayne Bay exclusively via TIDAL.

The festivities will take place August 29th and kicks off at 8:30 PST. Rick Ross recently sat with Rolling Stone to talk about the album’s anniversary and the struggles he had to embark leading up to the album’s release.

You know, five years before Port of Miami, I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting … the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to. Miami is a party city, a go-fast city. Miami built on cocaine and killing. I was talking about coming up, being an entrepreneur, getting rich. Everyone wasn’t familiar or understood what to do with that music. So a lot of people just basically felt it wouldn’t make it. So I just had to stay focused and I started doing other things. I started writing for other people and being in other studio sessions with other artists. That’s what got me that opportunity to get in the studio with a young Kanye while he was making beats for another artist. I wish I would have bought a lot of beats … at that time, but we had a lot of time to just sit in the studio and talk about different things.