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| Released | December 4, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 60:16 | |||
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Black Market is the eighth studio album by American rapper Rick Ross. The album was released on December 4, 2015, by Maybach Music Group and Def Jam Recordings. [1] [2] The album features guest appearances from John Legend, CeeLo Green, Nas, DJ Premier, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Future and The-Dream.
In November 2015, in an interview with Billboard , he spoke about the album, saying: "You know, this album is, I feel like, most definitely gonna be a Rozay on a higher, intellectual level, just discussing a different array of things. When you listen to records like "Foreclosure," that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me. And during my incarceration, that was the type of music I created. Just in that short moment of time, I really just sat there... I'm a muthafucka that flies six million miles a year and just to halt one day, out of the blue, for three weeks? It's just, "Woah." There's a lot of shit that I wrote and a lot of shit that I thought about. I came back out and scrapped a lot of music and I recorded some dope songs, but my first day home I recorded six records. So that's why I was able to put out the Black Dollar record and have been releasing a slew of freestyles, just feeding the fans and everybody that's been asking for that Rozay music." [3]
The album's lead single, "Foreclosures" was released on September 23, 2015. [4] The album's second single, "Sorry" was released on October 9, 2015. The song features guest vocals from American recording artist Chris Brown and is produced by Scott Storch. [5] On November 12, 2015, the music video was released for "Sorry". [6]
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 61/100 [7] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| HipHopDX | [9] |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.0/10 [10] |
| PopMatters |   [11] |
| Rolling Stone |  [12] |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | [13] |
Black Market received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 61, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "generally positive reviews". [7] David Jeffries of AllMusic said, "This Miami Don remains an unapologetic and indefensible brute -- and he says as much on this very LP -- but this rough, honest, and ambitious work is like his Raging Bull, taking the listener on a compelling, dirty journey that's also a connectable character study, and then letting some slick Chris Brown ("Sorry") and Future ("D.O.P.E") features play while the credits roll." [8] Scott Glaysher of HipHopDX said, "All in all, Black Market does its job. It doesn’t hit as hard as some previous albums, but it surely proves just how good Rick Ross can be as a songwriter and collaborator. It also proves how sharp he has become as a rapper. There may not be a thundering single that the album is built around, but, for the most part, Ross’s consistency fills that gap quite nicely." [9] Julian Kimble of Pitchfork Media stated, "The motivated, slightly weary Ross heard on Black Market—which has no MMG features—is a better fit for the moment than the bulletproof supervillain of old. Ross has proven his resilience in the past; maybe carefully controlled doses of reality are just what he needs to move forward." [10]
In the United States, the album debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200, with 65,000 album-equivalent units (54,000 copies of pure sales) in its first week. [14]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Free Enterprise" (featuring John Legend) |
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| 4:19 |
| 2. | "Smile Mama, Smile" (featuring CeeLo Green) |
| Jake One | 4:01 |
| 3. | "One of Us" (featuring Nas) |
| Calvo da Gr8 | 3:13 |
| 4. | "Silk Road" |
| 4:21 | |
| 5. | "Color Money" |
| D. Rich | 3:06 |
| 6. | "Dope Dick" |
| Jake One | 4:44 |
| 7. | "Crocodile Python" |
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| 4:40 |
| 8. | "Ghostwriter" |
| D. Rich | 4:27 |
| 9. | "Black Opium" (featuring DJ Premier) |
| Black Metaphor | 3:55 |
| 10. | "Can't Say No" (featuring Mariah Carey) |
| J.R. Rotem | 3:30 |
| 11. | "Peace Sign" |
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| 4:50 |
| 12. | "Very Best" (featuring Mary J. Blige) |
| JP Did This 1 | 4:56 |
| 13. | "Sorry" (featuring Chris Brown) |
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| 5:30 |
| 14. | "D.O.P.E." (featuring Future) |
| DP Beats | 4:44 |
| Total length: | 60:16 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 15. | "Foreclosures" |
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| 4:14 |
| 16. | "Money Dance" (featuring The-Dream) |
| 7:37 | |
| 17. | "Carol City" |
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| 4:13 |
| Total length: | 76:20 | |||
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