The extremely anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming old amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.

Rick Ross can be an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people find out his full story. Now, for the very first time, Ross offers a stunning, dramatic and unexpectedly candid account of his early childhood, his tumultuous adolescence and his dramatic ascendancy in the wonderful world of hip-hop.

Born William Leonard Roberts about Hurricanes: A Memoir II, Ross grew up “across the bridge,” within a Miami in odds using the glitzy beaches, nightclubs and yachts of South Beach. In the aftermath from the 1980 competition riots as well as the Mariel boatlift, Ross emerged of age on the height from the city’s crack epidemic, when house invasions and execution-style killings were commonplace. Still, in the midst of the chaos and danger that surrounded him, Ross flourished, initial as a standout senior high school football player and then like a dope youngster in Carol City’s notorious Matchbox housing projects. Even while he honed his musical skill, overcoming setback after setback until a track called “Hustlin’” changed his life forever.

From the making of “Hustlin’” to his initial major label deal with Def Jam, towards the controversy surrounding his past as a correctional officer and the numerous health scares, arrests and feuds he previously to transcend on the way, Hurricanes is a revealing portrait of one of the biggest stars in the rap game, and a romantic go through the birth of an artist.