*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN XXL BEST RAPPER-PENNED BIOGRAPHY* A gripping journey.-People
The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid
Miami's 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
nightclubs and yachts of South Beach. In the aftermath of the 1980 race riots he came of age
at the height of the city's crack epidemic. All the while he honed his musical talent
overcoming setback after setback until a song called Hustlin' changed his life forever. From
his first major label deal to the controversies 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.
