{"id":12617,"date":"2023-11-06T21:11:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2023-11-06T21:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T21:22:58","slug":"rick-ross-is-living-large-and-loving-life-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/rick-ross-is-living-large-and-loving-life-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Ross Is Living Large and Loving Life in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Falstaffian rapper<\/a> and entrepreneur was a mere two songs into his inaugural performance at Drai\u2019s, a raucous 30,000-foot nightclub inside Las Vegas<\/a>\u2019 Cromwell hotel, and \u201chalfway drunk\u201d when he ordered the DJ to stop the music. He found himself transfixed by the multimillion-dollar LED screen above, and needed a beat to take it all in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverywhere around you are the best fans you could ever have. It\u2019s 90 percent tourists, so they came from far and wide to see you and got the phones out, and you\u2019ve got the best speakers,\u201d explains Ross. \u201cIt\u2019s that boss shit<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was in June of 2021, and Ross has been a regular fixture at Drai\u2019s ever since \u2014 recently inking a two-year extension of his residency. And it\u2019s been \u201ca perfect fit\u201d for Drai\u2019s, according to Dustin Drai, president of Drai\u2019s Group, given his \u201ccharismatic persona, extensive music catalog, larger than life persona, and his synergy with many other Drai\u2019s residents.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drai\u2019s has been at the forefront of championing hip-hop<\/a> music in Vegas, platforming one rapper after another at a time when EDM DJs dominated the Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the position now where I can go and party wherever I want,\u201d offers Ross. \u201cAnd we love<\/em> to party here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 11 p.m. and I\u2019m in Ross\u2019 palatial hotel suite at the nearby Palms, replete with a movie theater, stocked kitchen, and pool table. In a few hours, the 47-year-old will rock the stage of Drai\u2019s in front of a packed house that\u2019ll include Ja Rule (donning a Jheri-curl wig for Halloween). But for now, the Miami<\/a> MC is lounging around, shooting pool in a white T-shirt, colorful shorts, and black flip-flops, while puffing on blunt after blunt, as this reporter dances around him asking questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve signed another two-year residency at Drai\u2019s. Why is it your favorite place to perform in Vegas?<\/strong>
You know, I went to the mall today and came up with the perfect response to that. The reason why I turn up so much is because Drai\u2019s is the Louis Vuitton of nightlife, and you gotta pull out your fuckin\u2019 very finest. You gotta <\/em>pull out your very finest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vegas used to be synonymous with Sinatra and aging performers, but now there are hot, young performers doing it out here.<\/strong>
Most definitely. It\u2019s either that or we\u2019re seeing it in a different way because we\u2019ve grown into that older class. But being younger and going through Vegas, you were never actually seeing anyone you wanted to see. Other than a Michael Jackson look-alike or some shit, it was always older generations of entertainers. Now, this shit is really poppin\u2019. Vegas is on fire. I remember 10 years ago, there wasn\u2019t any hip-hop on this set. There weren\u2019t any vibes like that. From 10 years ago to now, aw man<\/em>, Drai\u2019s is a big reason. When you fly in for Drai\u2019s now, you fly in on your G550 and this may be the only place where you cross Kim Kardashian and go, \u201cKim, what\u2019s up!\u201d And that\u2019s before you even get off the fuckin\u2019 runway. When they had the NBA preseason here, I looked up and saw LeBron [James] and the names kept going. It was like Drai\u2019s gave me a one-day NBA deal. When you go to Drai\u2019s at night and then the pool party the next day, you had the best time but you\u2019re exhausted, and you go home, get in flip-flops, and spend the next three days telling your friends what it was like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rick Ross performing at Drai\u2019s in Las Vegas. Radis Denphutaraphrechar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What do you get up to in Vegas?<\/strong>
Well, shopping and partying is number one. And you know me \u2014 I gotta get some side bets with some homies that are really good gamblers. You gotta hit the casinos. Even if you\u2019re not a gambler, just put a thousand to the side. Fuck it<\/em>. It\u2019s a thousand dollars. You\u2019ll enjoy it. Go play some blackjack and talk shit by the time you\u2019re on your third or fourth tequila shot. I bet Diddy a million-dollar bet, and I won. We were in the recording studio in the Palms, which is fucking legendary, playing dice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Did he pay up?<\/strong>
Of course he did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was in June of 2021, and Ross has been a regular fixture at Drai\u2019s ever since \u2014 recently inking a two-year extension of his residency. And it\u2019s been \u201ca perfect fit\u201d for Drai\u2019s, according to Dustin Drai, president of Drai\u2019s Group, given his \u201ccharismatic persona, extensive music catalog, larger than life persona, and his synergy with many other Drai\u2019s residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Falstaffian rapper and entrepreneur was a mere two songs into his inaugural performance at Drai\u2019s, a raucous 30,000-foot nightclub inside Las Vegas\u2019 Cromwell hotel, and \u201chalfway drunk\u201d when he ordered the DJ to stop the music. He found himself transfixed by the multimillion-dollar LED screen above, and needed a beat to take it all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-lifestyle","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GettyImages-963257634.webp?fit=1600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}