The biggest downside to being a rapper that rides around in a limo: every time you stop, some random dude wants to have a rhyme battle

One would think that gunfire-fueled blood spatter would look more like a Pollock

Also red because of his affiliation with the bloods.

Rick Ross says he is to rap what Basquiat is to painting…a genius.

According to his recent article in XXL, Ross has a tattoo of Basquiat on his leg (somewhere).

New Year’s Eve is a popular time to shoot off guns

Some people like to ring in the New Year with gunplay (a “chopper” is a gun)

Personally, I prefer making a resolution that I won’t keep more than a week..

Your mom works a straight job and listens to secretary rock from twenty years ago

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

Leviticus 25:45

We’ll still party with you, LiLo!

Harlem’s Huddy Combs, aka Huddy 6, was a member of Mase’s Harlem World group and, later, affiliated with the Dipset crew

He died in a car accident on October 13, 2010

Los Angeles' DJ Hideo died on April 24, 2010