Rick Ross

While Atlanta and Houston artists were establishing their cities as Southern strongholds, Rick Ross put Miami back in rap's national spotlight with "Hustlin'" (2006), the platinum introduction to a uniquely larger-than-life character with gruffly delivered tales about the spoils and pitfalls of drug trafficking. Ross not only became a hip-hop fixture but an unlikely pop star as well. His debut smash Port of Miami and all of his subsequent studio albums entered the Top Ten, promoted by hits like "The Boss" and "Aston Martin Music." Through his own label, Maybach Music, Ross boo...