In November 2015, in an interview withBillboard, he spoke about the album, saying: "You know, this album is, I feel like, most definitely gonna be a Rozay on a higher, intellectual level, just discussing a different array of things. When you listen to records like "Foreclosure," that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me. And during my incarceration, that was the type of music I created. Just in that short moment of time, I really just sat there... I'm a muthafucka that flies six million miles a year and just to halt one day, out of the blue, for three weeks? It's just, "Woah." There's a lot of shit that I wrote and a lot of shit that I thought about. I came back out and scrapped a lot of music and I recorded some dope songs, but my first day home I recorded six records. So that's why I was able to put out theBlack Dollar record and have been releasing a slew of freestyles, just feeding the fans and everybody that's been asking for that Rozay music."[3]
The album's lead single, "Foreclosures" was released on September 23, 2015.[4] The album's second single, "Sorry" was released on October 9, 2015. The song featuresguest vocals from American recording artistChris Brown and is produced byScott Storch.[5] On November 12, 2015, the music video was released for "Sorry".[6]
Black Market received generally positive reviews frommusic critics. AtMetacritic, which assigns anormalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received anaverage score of 61, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "generally positive reviews".[7] David Jeffries ofAllMusic said, "This Miami Don remains an unapologetic and indefensible brute -- and he says as much on this very LP -- but this rough, honest, and ambitious work is like hisRaging Bull, taking the listener on a compelling, dirty journey that's also a connectable character study, and then letting some slick Chris Brown ("Sorry") and Future ("D.O.P.E") features play while the credits roll."[8] Scott Glaysher ofHipHopDX said, "All in all,Black Market does its job. It doesn’t hit as hard as some previous albums, but it surely proves just how good Rick Ross can be as a songwriter and collaborator. It also proves how sharp he has become as a rapper. There may not be a thundering single that the album is built around, but, for the most part, Ross’s consistency fills that gap quite nicely."[9] Julian Kimble ofPitchfork Media stated, "The motivated, slightly weary Ross heard onBlack Market—which has no MMG features—is a better fit for the moment than the bulletproof supervillain of old. Ross has proven his resilience in the past; maybe carefully controlled doses of reality are just what he needs to move forward."[10]
In the United States, the album debuted at number 6 on theBillboard 200, with 65,000album-equivalent units (54,000 copies of pure sales) in its first week.[14]
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