num_pages: 272
description: * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A gripping journey. PeopleThe highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miamis crack epidemic his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry but few people know his full story. Now for the first time Ross offers a vivid dramatic and unexpectedly candid account of his early childhood his tumultuous adolescence and his dramatic ascendancy in the world of hip-hop.Born William Leonard Roberts II Ross grew up across the bridge in a Miami at odds with the glitzy beaches nightclubs and yachts of South Beach. In the aftermath of the 1980 race riots and the Mariel boatlift Ross came of age at the height of the citys crack epidemic when home invasions and execution-style killings were commonplace. Still in the midst of the chaos and danger that surrounded him Ross flourished first as a standout high school football player and then as a dope boy in Carol Citys notorious Matchbox housing projects. All the while he honed his musical talent overcoming setback after setback until a song called Hustlin changed his life forever.From the making of Hustlin to his first major label deal with Def Jam to the controversy surrounding his past as a correctional officer and the numerous health scares arrests and feuds he had to transcend along the way Hurricanes is a revealing portrait of one of the biggest stars in the rap game and an intimate look at the birth of an artist.
language: English
title: Hurricanes: A Memoir
publisher: Hanover Square Press