Someone asked how Rick Ross has money with "one hit twenty years ago." I pulled the documents.
โญ His album *Set in Stone* debuted at No. 39 with ~2,000 pure sales. His catalog does **3,587,654 Spotify streams a day**, ~1.3B a year, with no release required.
โญ I searched the federal copyright register for him selling that catalog. 127 mortgage security agreements carry his name. I opened the parents: **every one belongs to somebody else.** Lil Wayne's assignment of 1,018 works to a trust. Kanye's chain. Nicki Minaj's. He's in them as a co-writer.
**There is no recorded sale of a Rick Ross catalog anywhere in that database.**
โ ๏ธ But "never sold it" is not "kept it." The recording registrations name **Island Def Jam / UMG** (Teflon Don, Port of Miami) and **Sony** (Port of Miami 2) as claimant. What the register shows him holding is the publishing and the name.
โญ Where it actually comes from, four databases deep:
ยท catalog annuity, 595 tracks
ยท **Boss Wings Enterprises: 244 workers across 5 Wing Stop locations** per a 2022 DOL action. Wingstop 10-K AUV: $2.0M/store
ยท a ticketed car show on his own land, 5th year, its own Florida corporation
ยท fee dates: theaters, casinos, an HBCU homecoming, a symphony show, a cruise
โญ And the question under the question. *Ross v. Roberts*, 222 https://t.co/afe3PqtoIj.4th 677 (2013): summary judgment affirmed, transformative use, First Amendment protected. **The name is property and a court said so.**
What I could NOT verify: the county parcel record, any store count, and any attendance figure in either direction.
โWhose pussy is thisโ
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