Rick Ross Finally Comes Clean
October 7th, 2008

Rick Ross finally comes clean.
Miami MC Rick Ross is admitting what anyone who’s not blind has known for months: He’s the chubby, clean-cut guy dressed as a prison guard in widely circulated Web photos. Ross repeatedly had denied his corrections-officer past, despite numerous documents including a job application with his legal name that were published on the Smoking Gun Web site. Apparently, the rapper, who borrows his stage name from notorious Los Angeles cocaine dealer “Freeway” Ricky Ross, thought that acknowledging his old gig would cost him street cred. “Yes, it’s me,” Ross tells Don Diva magazine of the photographs. “…I done been up and I done been down, and that’s what makes me what I am. I never ratted on a n*gga. I never prosecuted a n*gga. I never locked up a n*gga. That’s first and foremost. …When I say that I’m rich off cocaine, it’s because I did it.” But he never “locked up” a person? Isn’t that what COs do?
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rick u fight ya own fight in dis world so ross do ya thing like jay-z .respect
WHy-y-y-y-y-y-y ! In the hell did you lie about it. Yes if your rapping about the life you lived, you should be honest. Fake ass gangster. I would’ve repected you more if you told the truth. I wish you luck in this business!
why would he be proud of killing people with his drugs deals, saying that he got rich off of cocain, that’s nothing to be proud of. That’s what he want his kids to do…………and anyway C.O’s is worst than some of the criminals…………….lol
LET’S KEEP IT REAL I’M FROM CALI HE STILL GANGSTER IF YOU KNEW WHAT THE CO’S DO HERE HOW YOU THINK INMATES GET ALL THE DRUGS, PHONES, SEX ETC CO’S STUPID.
I LOVE THE BOSS RICK ROSS HE’S NOT A BUSTER.
WHY WOULD YOU HAVE TO LIE IN ORDER TO KEEP STREET CRED? IF YOU REAL IT WOULDNT AFFECT IT ANYWAY.IF YOU LIE BOUT SMALL THINGS,EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST SMOKESCREEN..THERES A LOT OF LABEL PUPPETS THAT TAKE THA WEST COAST FLAVOR AND NAMES AND TRY TO IMITATE THA REAL..WHO CARES IF YOU GOT RICH OFF COKE..HOW DOES THAT HELP OUR YOUTH ,COMMUNITY AND FUTURE ?? ARE YOU REALLY IN THA STREETS AND HELPING YO HOOD? I DOUBT IT..NIGGAZ BE SELLIN THEY SOULS FOR A $..LUV LOST IN SAN BERNARDINO( ‘DINO )..JUS KEEP IT 100 PLAYA,BEST BELIVE WE DO OUT HERE…BAD NEWZ 909
I guess if Mr. Ricky Ross said that he was homeless and lets see a wife beater or yeah maybe even a child malestor. Would that give him credit on the streets? The man had an honest job and surviving-all ya’ll broke haters need to get a real life and maybe you wouldn’t have time to hate on the Boss. Rick wit-yo-sexy self. I’m a keep supporting you. Oh and ya’ll didn’t say nothing about Tupac rest his soul when he was a back up dancer for Digital Undeground before he became a Thug! Don’t get it twisted still bump Pac to this day but I needed to make that point.
Peace I’m at work a job I’ve been on for 22 years see ya! Oh and yeah I’m only 42 with a seventeen year old son who goes to school in the ghetto but headed for Howard University-wus up now wus up now-Okay pray for me ya’ll.
first of all i work for corrections,and we don’t lock them up.we practice care,custody ,and control. and so what if he was in corrections does that mean he does not have a past.get over it
This world would be much better if everybody mind their own business damn we r in a drought right now everybody needs a job and a hustle. If that’s his past life and now he’s a rapper it is wat it is.
Real Talk CO’s dont lock people up the judge and the police lock people up. CO’s only keep them in the jail. Stop hating people dang it was a JOB!
he should have said it from the begining . it’s too many people that glorify the life of drugs and he’s one of them. what comes around goes around. the question is did he really do what all he said he done in his raps. because true goons, hustlers, og’s they dont glorify the life they teach it. and why are we listening to this crap anyway , it aint real music. I agree with trick daddy be what you about and say what you are are instead he couldnt even come up with his own stage name . he glorifying a man name who earn respect of murder , drugs, living lavishly, black people we got to do better
Black america is always split on a matter!Rick ross are any body who wants to Rap do not have to be a drug dealer,pimp,Killer,ganster,con man,playa,or a criminal.We fail to realize the true originality of rap,but people do have the right to talk about what they hvae been throught in life.
Covington from Oakland, what point are you trying to make? The issue is he lied about it. And was all on tv mad about how he was being talked about when the truth of the matter was that IT WAS THE TRUTH. Now he wants to own up to it. Personally I forgot all about it because it wasnt and still is not important news. But when people have proof (pictures) and what not, why get mad when you know it was you. I agree with what Byrd said. That small of a lie makes you wonder…………
Come on Yaw! He anit nothing but a studio gangsta wanna be.
Why can’t real G’s keep it real, and all the sucka’s move out the way, like how we do it here on da west coast here in Cali?
REAL TALK TO EVERYBODY YOU LOCK YOURSELF UP WIT ALL THE CRIMES OR WHATEVER YOU COMMITTED AND 85% OUT OF 100% THAT IS LOCKED UP WILL BLAME IT ON THE POLICE AND THE JUDGES . IN WHICH THEY HAVE A JOB TO BUT , THE REALITY OF THE MATTER IS STOP LYING YO ASS DIDNT DO NOTHING YOU RAPPED ABOUT. MUSIC IS POWERFUL AND IT GETS ACROSS TO ALOT OF PEOPLE OF ALL WALKS . WE REALLY NEED TO WATCH WHAT WE SAY RAP, SING OR WHATEVER DOWN TO THE COUNRTY MUSIC OUR KIDS ARE , FIRST AND THEY ARE SOAKING IN THIS CRAP , THEY BELIEVE IT WE CAN PRETEND LIKE IT DONT HAPPEN BUT THEY DO. I AM FROM FLORIDA . ITS A DIFFERENT BALL GAME DOWN HERE WE DONT CARE ABOUT STREET CARE WE CARE ABOUT BIENG REAL FOLK. BE REAL BE TRUTHFUL AND YOU’LL GET THAT RESPECT! HIP HOP DONE GOT OUT OF TOUCH . WE NEED TO BRING MESSAGES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY INSTEAD GLORIFYING DOPE. I WAS IN THAT SCENE OF LIFE . IT AINT NOTHING TO GLORIFY. THAT’S TO RICK ROSS , JEEZY AND ALL THEM FAKE ASS N******Z WHO RAP WITH NO MESSAGE. TALK ABOUT REAL SH$T!
Lisa! Lisa! Lisa!!! I’m from Miami and this is what I been sayin since day one if you’re going to make any real connects its through the jail….. Common sense would have told people these so called ganxtas this! Especially he ones callin him a fake. Maybe he lied cause he’s not trying to indict anyone maybe he was makin real connects in jail and there is a way to go back and get someone in trouble… And NO Co’s do not lock people up in jail. There some cool ones and there are the one’s who think they’re the police and like B!t@hes. But Rick Ross Whatever the deal is youre still better than half these gimmicks in the rap game keep doin yo thang babe!!!
I think you make hard songs but I also think that you are dreaming up this world you wanted to live in. Come on let’s face it, you are using someone elses name to make people think you hard and you falsified information to try defend your persona. You make great fake music. I have to wonder if you even get the draws like you say you do? Probably not!!!!
I was taught that you talk the talk and walk the walk. So basicly if he was a corrections officer then rap bout that $*~? not the about the game.
He shouldn’t have lied. It’s a decent job. My Mom is a Corrections Officer. A prison guard. They watch the inmates. Some commit just as many crimes at work or outside of work, but don’t get caught. SOME DON’T. I’m proud of her for being a good CO. Her JOB enabled her to take care of her 3 children legally. Big UPs to COs.
Why would he said, he got rich off cocaine? that’s just the dumbest sh** I then heard from him, he indicting his self.
Most of the dudes in the rap game probably only sold a little mary j in the first place and tht was probably 30 years ago, but I guess that gives them the right to make song after song about bling, drugs, money, and sex!
Who cares if he had a nine to five I wish most of these 40 something dudes out here come to realize that they need a job instead of a record deal. This just goes to show you how stupid black people are… we glamorize the things that hurt us the most and make it seem dirty or wack to live like normal citizens.
Rick just do u.. if people gonna buy your crap they will! Most artist now adays dont sell drugs… just recordz!