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Here I Am (Rick Ross song)

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Released
  
March 25, 2008

Length
  
3:29

Genre
  
Hip hop, R&B

Writer(s)
  
W. Roberts

Format
  
CD single, Digital download

Label
  
Slip-n-Slide, Def Jam, Poe Boy

"Here I Am" is the third single from Rick Ross's second album Trilla. It features Nelly and Avery Storm. This song, produced by Drumma Boy, contains an interpolation of Stevie Wonder's "Lately." Video appearances made are DJ Khaled, Birdman, Pitbull, Dre, Felicia Pearson, Ace Hood and others. After the song ends, the video cuts to Ross's other song, "Maybach Music". The single debuted at 99 on the Billboard Hot 100, and has peaked at #41. The original third single was going to be "Luxury Tax", but it was changed to "Here I Am". The song was ranked as #50 by Vibe in 'The Best Songs Of '08'

There is a version without Ross that features Avery Storm as the lead artist and features Pitbull.

The official remix features new Maybach Music Group artist Magazeen.

Music video

The video starts out in a drive way with Rick Ross and a woman (played by video model Kia Samuel) in a car, parked at her house. He is talking to the woman and the woman's mother comes out of the house and yells for her to come back inside, because she does not like her daughter dating Rick Ross since he is a thug. The camera later flashfowards and shows them successful and at a mansion. Inside, men are with their girlfriends. Nelly and Avery Storm also make cameos rapping their verses. The video proceeds and it shows multiple parts of the house, which all show Rick Ross with the woman walking, laughing, and talking. It also shows flashbacks of when they were poor and the struggles of their relationship. After the song ends, the video cuts to Ross' other song, "Maybach Music."

DJ Khaled, Ace Hood, Pitbull, Brisco, Gunplay, and Larry Hughes make cameo appearances.

References

Here I Am (Rick Ross song) Wikipedia