Rick Ross came close to seriously injuring himself at home—but now, he’s looking back on the moment with a laugh.
The rap mogul, known for living large, admitted that even he has his off days. Speaking with the Daily Mail while promoting his upcoming memoir Renaissance of a Boss: Notes from a Creative Reawakening, Ross revealed he nearly broke his leg during one of his signature pool parties.
According to him, the near-disaster happened while attempting a wild diving board stunt he calls the “Double Decker Slapper.”
“I almost broke my f**king leg… But it was fun,” he said at a Spotify Audiobooks event held at The Peppermint Club over the weekend. “But we have gonna have a pool party after the car show, June 13.”
He continued, “You know, that’s just how we celebrate. So… look forward to that. That’s just one of those fun times.”
From the way he tells it, Ross clearly has no problem laughing off the close call.
When it comes to the book—his third memoir—Rick Ross is using it to reflect on the grind that took him to the top of the music game.
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Ross shared, “I appreciate a lot of the falls. I understand them. They prepared you for, you know what I’m saying, the upside.”
“So, it’s just one of them things that you got to appreciate, you got to love, you know what I mean? If it was anything, I could have told a younger Rick Ross man, ‘you so much closer. Don’t quit, homie.’ That’s like being a senior in school and you drop out right before you f**king graduate. Don’t do it. Don’t quit.”
But that wasn’t all Rick Ross had to reveal. During the same chat, he also teased his next album, Set In Stone. While he didn’t drop a release date, he made it clear this project pushed him creatively to his limits.
At its core, the album is his way of trying to outdo everything he’s done before.
“I challenged myself musically. That’s what the renaissance is about, it’s not getting to a point where you feel you at a ceiling.”
“Not only should I put out a dope album, it should be f**king challenging any body of work I ever released. And so that’s what the challenge to myself was. So, a lot of the records that I put on it sonically and just the way I feel, you know, what the game needed as my contribution…. I’m gonna be excited the day it’s released.”
