Artist Rick Ross

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Rick Ross earned the right to the 2010 album titleTeflon Don. He’s survived being exposed as a former corrections officer and he made it through his feud with 50 Cent, a street fighter of an MC who once had the power to destroy rivals, but whose beefs now feel like the hip-hop equivalent of the drunk girl at a party who makes out with her friend in a desperate bid for attention. So it’s no surprise that Teflon Don finds the rotund rapper in a celebratory mood. The album sounds as expensive as the luxury goods Ross raps about on tracks with telltale titles like “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast),” “Aston Martin Music,” and “Maybach Music III,” the thrilling conclusion to the “Maybach Music” trilogy.

Updated 12/06/2010