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Rick Ross: Red Carpet Boss

“One, for Christmas go get yourself an MMG tattoo. Two, let’s all stop smoking blunts; let’s smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let’s all have a beautiful year, let’s get this money.” - Rick Ross

Bawse of the Year

TRAP MUSIC.

The secret your trainer doesn’t want you to know: Weak-as-hell music is the leading cause of weak-as-hell muscles. Thankfully, Atlanta’s DJ Scream put together a trap music mix that’ll take your workouts to another level.

We Made It in America

What happened at Jay-Z’s first annual Made in America Festival? Well, President Obama made a quick visit. Rick Ross bossed up. And Pearl Jam rocked the free world. For our full recap, click here.

[Photographs by Nate Erickson]

The Best Rap Verses of 2012

Rapgenius.com—the ultimate database/translator/SparkNotes for hip-hop lyrics—dissects every rhyme from, say, Lil Wayne’s “Gonorrhea” as if it were T.S. Eliot. GQ enlisted the site’s founders, Shawn Serato and Gavin Matthews, to break down their favorite lines of the year.