Quote of The Day: Rick Ross Calls Bon Iver's Justin Vernon a 'F**king Genius'

Rozay's got love for the indie folk singer.

May 20, 2011

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"[Justin Vernon is] a fucking genius. I'd never seen nor heard of him in my life...and I was in a fucking 5-by-5 room with a white guy, smoking weed...His voice is like something I've never heard, and he's using words that are far from common. Within 20 minutes, I realized why Kanye had him there." - Rick Ross, on working with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with Kanye West in Hawaii. [via Billboard]

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