Not just any rapper can just call a press conference, let alone mediated by Rap-Radar's Elliott Wilson and featuring some of the hip-hop world's biggest names stopping by to talk about how great you are. But as Wilson himself put it, "everything Ross does is big," So Ross assembled his entire Maybach Music Group roster—minus Stalley, who was overseas on tour—to make some announcements of the big things going on with the Untouchable Maybach Music Group Empire.
First and foremost, Ross's much-anticipated, oft-delayed God Forgives, I Don't now has an official release date: July 31st. The date might not be tremendously exciting for fans that expected GFID to be out late last year, but with Ross's health scare and his general perfectionism, it's probably the first realistic date we've heard for the album's release. "The stories that's being told on this record are gonna make it stand apart from everything else I've ever done," Ross said of his fifth studio album. "This was the missing part of my legacy, and it's gonna put me over the top." (Ross also said that nothing of his that's already been released is gonna make it to the final record—sorry, "I Love My Bitches" megafans.)
In addition, Ross's team all showed up to announce the release dates of their own respective albums. They are, deep breath: Meek Mill's Dreams and Nightmares, out August 28th, with a new single in June, Wale's untitled Ambition follow-up, due at the top of 2012 ("The very tippy-top") and the entire label's Self-Made, Vol. 2 compilation, out June 26th. In addition, the first MMG effort from the newest official label signee, one-time B2k member and R&B star of yesteryear Omarion, is also in its way, preceded by the Rick Ross-featuring single "Let's Talk," which borrows from a couple '90s classics, sampling the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa" and interpolating Salt n Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex" in the chorus. "Today I become a made man," beamed Omarion, who apparently now also goes by the name "Maybach O."
Finally, Rick Ross also took a moment to reflect on his outside business ventures, as detailed by his financial compadres Diddy and Swizz Beats. The latter announced some exciting news for Rozay's plus-sized fans, as he revealed that The Boss would be partnering with Reebok to release a line of Big and Tall footwear. "I got all y'all big guys, tall guys," Ross proclaimed. "We goin' in, we turnin' up." No doubt.