"I don’t know, man," Ross said about officially becoming a Boyz member. " ‘Cause at the time Block and Diddy presented it to me, I wasn’t sure yet. I wanted to focus on my debut, Port of Miami, which is due August 1. And I got my group Carol City Cartel, which I’m getting ready to establish. But it’s looking like it may come together. We gotta sit down and chop it up."

Ross says he and Block met each other on the pavement. "Running around in the A," Ross said, referencing Atlanta. "Block was doing his thing, I was doing mine. We developed a bond in the streets." Even though the paperwork hasn’t been signed, Ross confirmed that he has recorded with dem Boyz. "We got records on deck," he said.

As many know, Ross recently completed a remix of his breakthrough single, "Hustlin’," with Young Jeezy and Jay-Z. Ross says Jeezy wasn’t in the lab, but he got a chance to see Hov do his thing. "Just watching his whole creative process is a hell of a thing. He murked that verse. We got the remix that’s real hot, and we finnin’ to drop the second single, ‘Blow.’ I’m about to blow. It’s like a real club joint. The debut album is a classic. We got Jay, Jeezy, UGK, Mario Winans, Ne-Yo and Monica all on it.

"[The song with Monica], it’s called ‘Street Life,’ " he added. "A real crazy record. You need your woman in your corner holding you down. That’s what she did — she held me down on that record. We got a song called ‘Pushing It,’ it’s on some Scarface kind of sh–."

Besides his own project, Ross is featured on the remix to LeToya Luckett‘s "Torn" with Mike Jones and appears a few times on DJ Khaled‘s new LP, Listennn: The Album. And if you’re looking for a cameo to go in the You-Would-Never-Believe-It file, just check out Ross on a new song by the Delfonics. "My lawyer was handling some work for them and he plugged that up," Ross said of how the collaboration came about. "I told him I would love to work with legends." …

In other news, Rick Ross’ ‘Hustlin’ ringtone was certified Gold (500,000) last night at the RIAA Awards.