Rick Ross New Song “Little Havana” from New Album ‘Richer Than I Ever Been’ Finds the Boss In Top Form

Rick Ross has a new album, Richer Than I Ever Been, dropping this Friday (December 10). It’s his 11th album, following 2019’s Port of Miami 2 (a sequel to his 2006 debut), and yet even though it feels like the Miami rapper’s output should be tapering off — he is, after all, fifteen years in (not counting the years he spent grinding before anyone knew who he was) — he somehow still sounds as fresh as he ever did, if not more so.

Last month, “Outlawz,” the 21 Savage and Jazmine Sullivan-assisted first single from the new album came out; it’s now followed by “Little Havana,” a more straightforward flex, with Ross detailing his street bona fides over a smooth, R&B-inflected track. It’s buoyed by vocals from The-Dream, and an introduction from Willie Falcon, the drug kingpin who, along with Sal Magluta, was recently the subject of the Netflix docuseries Cocaine Cowboys: Kings of Miami (itself a sequel to the classic Cocaine Cowboys).

Ross has been rapping about the same things forever — cocaine, being street certified, and his plethora of riches — but it doesn’t appear the weapons in his arsenal demand change. In fact, he alludes to this in the song’s opening line: “Problem was I never was a prodigy,” which means that Ross had to work that much harder…