Rick Ross’ Black Market album has been on sale since early December, but one retailer has decided to pull the release from its inventory. Various sources indicate that Ross’ latest album is no longer being sold at Walmart over a line referencing Donald Trump.
According to HipHopDX, Black Market is no longer available on Walmart’s online store following a complaint from video blogger Mark Dice. In addition, he reportedly filed a complaint to other retailers, including iTunes, Amazon and Target, to stop selling the album because of a line on "Free Enterprise" about threatening to kill presidential candidate Trump.
On the track, Ross also made reference to George Zimmerman, the vigilante who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012. He raps, "Assassinate Trump like I'm Zimmerman / Now accept these words as they came from Eminem / Democratic party sentenced to the pendulum / Killing them, I voted for Andre Benjamin."
In a nearly three-minute video shared on YouTube, Dice called out major retailers who acted quickly to remove Confederate Flags this summer but opted to sell Ross’ threat laced album.
Black Market serves as the MMG boss’ eighth studio album and reportedly moved 50,000 units in its first week. The album includes the previously released single “Sorry” featuring Chris Brown as well as other guest spots by Future, Mariah Carey, Nas, Mary J. Blige and more. Singer John Legend makes an appearance on “Free Enterprise.”
"That was one of the first records I actually wrote over the summer I was incarcerated,” Ross told Billboard. “I recorded it the first day I came home. I wanted the album to feel like you're walking into a room and just completely open your mind to all the possibilities. Everything is a go, so I made the title ‘Free Enterprise.’ It costs you nothing to dream as big as you can. My feet are on the ground and I just wanted to take you through my timeline. It most definitely [set the tone] and I recorded it the way it played out in my mind."
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