War Ready

Album: Mastermind (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • This Mike WiLL Made It produced song features Rick Ross' former rap rival Jeezy. The Miami boss and the CTE leader started beefing after Jeezy released a freestyle over Ross "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)," titled "Death B4 Dishonor," in August 2010. Though Jeezy denied that the tune was aimed at Rozay, the cut was taken as a diss. Two years later the pair got involved in a brawl backstage at the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards, which escalated into a fight in the parking lot broken up by the police.
  • This song finds Ross and Jeezy united after their feud. "The mark of a powerful man is not only his ability to make war, but to also make peace," Rozay told MTV News. "That's why it was nothing for me and Jeezy to work out whatever past differences and get back in the booth to make history. This album is a celebration of the Mastermind, which reflects my music as an artist and my business ventures as a boss. We did this not only for ourselves, but for Hip-Hop."
  • The bombastic cut finds the reconciled pair aiming lyrical shots at anyone who dare to cross their path. Ross described it as, "the hit single the streets have waited years for."
  • This wasn't a pre-planned hook-up — things just happened to work out. "It wasn't nothing that was planned. It wasn't planned at all," Ross told RapFix Live host Sway. "Me and [Jeezy] ran into each other — my homeys over there, his homeys on the other side of the door — and we just chopped it up."

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