Rick Ross has shifted his focus away from Wingstop, and he’s taken a moment to explain why.
In a new video shared to social media, the rapper explained why he moved his money out of the chicken wings business. The MMG rapper’s response comes after investor Eric Jackson published a review of nine years of Wingstop’s state franchise filings, which showed the Boss Wings companies tied to Rozay’s family listed 21 open restaurants at the end of 2016.
By the end of 2025, those same filings showed one open Wingstop left under the Boss Wings umbrella, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Ross’ mother’s hometown. The filing trail picked up extra heat once 50 Cent took the opportunity to troll Ross about the situation. Ross has leaned on Wingstop as a pillar of his businessman persona for years, which is part of why a document trail ending at a single store traveled so fast. One earlier marker in that run came in 2022, when Wingstop said Boss Wings had handed its Memphis stores to a new operator. Ross previously revealed that his interest in Wingstop began in Miami when he tried its lemon pepper wings. In August of 2011, Wingstop had announced he’d signed a deal to open stores in Memphis.
