Exclusive: Hip hop artist and entrepreneur Rick Ross is partnering with Half Yard Productions, a Red Arrow Studios company, on a docuseries centered on New Jersey’s Fronzaglia family, in which Ross also would star. The project is the first for Ross under his recently launched Lucky Bastard Media Corp. production company.

Half-Yard’s Head of Development Dirk Hoogstra is developing the untitled new series about the Fronzaglia family – Alisa Maria, Dejroune, Milan and Joe “The Crane” — a unique, charismatic and endearing cast of characters heavily involved in New Jersey’s social life and business community. The family’s eldest daughter Dejroune or “Dej” is in an emerging relationship with the Miami based Ross, who will take a central role in the series.

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