Crocodile Python

Album: Black Market (2015)
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  • What's a Crocodile Python? According to Rick Ross, it's a "dope-ass title." It's also what he thought of when he heard the beat to this track; he rubbed his fingers together and thought of a texture felt like the hybrid creature of his title.
  • Rick Ross wrote these bars about drone surveillance and paranoia while in jail after being arrested on kidnapping and assault charges. He told Billboard magazine: "That was a record that I wrote while incarcerated on a small piece of paper with a small ink pen that was illegal at the time, but I had to have it. That's why the title was just so abstract and obnoxious. I was sitting in a pale room under light 23 hours a day and I just wanted to think most about the texture that I would love to see."

    That's the first thing that came to my mind. I'm trying to give them a real experience and give them some of this emotion that I'm feeling, so many things running through my mind, me questioning what's really going on. Am I doing the right thing?

    I mention my son's mom, mention the district attorneys. I discuss social racism and a lot of things in a way that walk by you if you're not really paying attention.
  • Ross borrows the first line of the hook ("Damn, why they want to stick me for my paper?") from the edited version of The Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready To Die track "Warning."

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