Rick Ross Got Extremely High With Bon Iver and Had No Idea Who He Was

There's a surprisingly rich historical record of extremely famous people failing to recognize other extremely famous people, a phenomenon that only seems possible to occur to someone with so much money, and such an unbelievably dope life, they just don't have to give a shit about a celebrity pretty much anyone else would easily spot on the street. For a while, Goldie Hawn had no idea who Amy Schumer was; Rami Malek danced with Bella Hadid once and didn't realize she was famous; Phil Collins went years without even having heard of Adele. But perhaps no celebrity-meets-celebrity-without-knowing-it story is so rich, or so pure, as the time Rick Ross got extremely high with Justin Vernon and thought he was just some "hippy motherfucker" with a beard.

On Wednesday, the Fader published an excerpt from Ross's new memoir, Hurricanes, all about the time he went to Hawaii to help Kanye West record My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Ross (with the help of his coauthor, Neil Martinez-Belkin) writes about finagling his way onto "Monster," which—unbeknownst to him—features Vernon on the intro.

So there you have it: Rick Ross got absurdly stoned with a two-time Grammy Award winner—one of the biggest names in indie music—and thought he was basically a temp. Incredible.

There are a few other gems in the excerpt—at one point, Ross explains how he came up with his verse on "Devil in a New Dress"; at another, he talks about connecting Kanye with Pusha T—but maybe the greatest detail is Ross's description of the signs Kanye had taped up all over the studio, one of the most Kanye things Kanye has ever done.

I'm not sure what "racking focus" means or exactly what constitutes a "hipster hat," but no one can argue with the eternal wisdom of "just shut the fuck up sometimes." Put that on my tombstone.

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