Hurricanes: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

The extremely anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming old amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.

Rick Ross is an indomitable existence in the music industry, but few people find out his full tale. Now, for the first time, Ross presents a brilliant, dramatic and unexpectedly candid account of his early years as a child, his tumultuous adolescence and his dramatic ascendancy in the world of hip-hop.

Born William Leonard Roberts about Hurricanes: A Memoir II, Ross was raised “across the bridge,” inside a Miami at odds using the glitzy beaches, nightclubs and yachts of South Seaside. In the aftermath of the 1980 competition riots and the Mariel boatlift, Ross arrived of age at the height from the city’s crack epidemic, when home invasions and execution-style killings were commonplace. Still, amid the chaos and risk that encircled him, Ross flourished, 1st like a standout high school soccer player and then like a dope boy in Carol City’s notorious Matchbox casing projects. Even while he honed his musical talent, overcoming setback after setback until a melody called “Hustlin’” changed his life permanently.

From the building of “Hustlin’” to his initial major label deal with Def Jam, towards the controversy surrounding his past as a correctional officer and the many health scares, arrests and feuds he had to transcend along the way, Hurricanes is a uncovering portrait of 1 of the largest stars in the rap game, and a romantic go through the birth of an artist.