Rick Ross talks about being a corrections officer in the new issue of Rolling Stone

[LOUDaffair]

If that nikka said he just did it for some legit bread from the jump it wouldn't have been an issue. He lied about it knowing that it could end his career.

The fact he got away with it was amazing....("Yeah, it was me....) was

Teflon indeed....

He did in his music

 

[Rekkapryde]

A large part of Ross' appeal to me is dude is funny as fukk, and most of it is unintentional. His stories about his life just add to his mystique and persona to me.

I give him props for completely shattering hip-hop "keep it real" orthodoxy and just saying "Hey look at me, I'm completely full of shyt but you will like my music" and still managing lasting success. Him lying about the C.O. thing is funny, but that's no reason to hate on him. Also most rappers are fake, he's just the most extreme example. Many of you dissing Ross consider the guy in my avatar the GOAT as do I, but there is a bit of a contradiction if you condemn Ross for his fakeness but praise the guy who wrote It Was Written. Nas isn't AS fake as Ross, but you would have to draw some arbitrary line somewhere to justify yourselves.

But we knew Nas wasn't some super drug kingpin and he specifically created a persona for it with Esco.

 

[Mac Casper]

It took hip-hop a long time to place music over the importance of the personal lives of the musicians who make said music, in the end you can chalk that up to maturity and it's a good thing for the growth of the genre.

 

[Lavish]

YouTube - Rick Ross LIVE! Talks about being "a prison guard"

YouTube - Rick Ross Calls The Ricky Smiley Morning Show In Miami And Get

YouTube - Rick Ross Confesses To Being A Corrections Officer


u need 20 for real? You start off with a stern "no" saying it as if the thought of bein a co disgust you,calling trick daddy a liar in the proccess....then you go on to question 50's credentials and sexuality then once Rickey Smiley asked you about bein a CO suddenly u don't want no parts of questions lol,nikka dodged them questions like Neo in the matrix....many more no's and avoiding the question follows....eventually u finally conffess,but tell us you couldn't tell the truth becuz of who it might incriminateu wuz makin to much bread with this c.o stint....now today we learn u wuz a c.o but only bcuz fireman didn't have big enuff uniforms and u just wanted to get out the game.

How many nikkas can he lock up for doin what he raps about and still claims he does it for the nikkas in the pen on his songs? How many packs of Ramen Noodles can he confiscate? How many times can he lie to a real nikka?how many names can he steal?How many real nikkas can this nikka slander?.....20?


Its over now though,Ross dropped a dud,proved he can't climb to the mountain top no matter how hard BET,his music buddys,media,his stans,illuminati and whoever else tries to push em...give em the publicity give em the lights...now he knows his status in the game,my faith in humanity is in tact...they know he a clown out here,we all know it...no need to really even discuss it...its understood now...we shined the light on that fat phony like he used to shine that flashlight on nikkas cells at night when they wuz tryna jack off quietly,but this nosey good employee azz nikka would manage to hear the sounds from under the sheets and bang on the bars and tell em "stop it "...next thing u know u gotta meet with the warden about this shyt...while Ross stands there proud as nikkas got read there punishment with the "I got another one boss".

This whole post is ether but that second link has me crying

 

[rollo jones1]

He was the one who was like, ‘Yo, go get a job somewhere, man. Go be a fireman. Or go be a f**king corrections officer. Just go sit down somewhere

 

[YBE]

No ones hating on Ross for having a job we hate Ross becUse he originally denied it and said it wasn't true now all of a sudden it's true?

And y'all stupid nikkas contiue to be fans of this nikka.

Me & you know exactly why he lied


Because Ross knew that regardless of what he said about it, nikkas who never as much as stepped foot in any hood or did any criminal activity was gonna question his authenticity. "nikka you talking about moving coke & you was a fukking C.O.?" Its the way the rap world works. Dweebs & nerds build rappers up as street deities & if as much as a morsel of information comes out that states otherwise, its a wrap. Think about all the corny shyt you've done in your life. Now think how much of a herb The Smoking Gun could make you look like if it documented all of that? What makes you think these rappers are any different?


None of us personally know Ross. We dont know what type shyt he was into & having 9 months of employment doesn't account for the other 28 years before he got into music Dweebs on here think if you worked a square job, then you can't be about street life. My brother did 8 years on & off. I'm not bragging or gloating, this story just applies here From 16 to 24, he was between Juvie & Prison. He got out at 21, 3 months later, right back in Finally got out at 24. Got shot in the head at 26. Again, no gloating. The story just applies


Now between getting out of jail & getting killed, he worked as a Paralegal. I bullshyt you not. He lied about having a record & them nikkas actually hired his black ass Eventually, it caught up with him & they fired his ass


Now if he was to have lived & became a rapper. The Smoking Gun would've put a picture online showing him in a suit in a law office looking like a herb & the world would've ran with it, when the nikka was as slimey as they come. I understand why Ross did what he did. He lied because he knew how fickle rap fans are.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

It took hip-hop a long time to place music over the importance of the personal lives of the musicians who make said music, in the end you can chalk that up to maturity and it's a good thing for the growth of the genre.

Not maturity at all. It's maturity when guys feel comfortable enough to rap about their real lifestyle instead of the lives of the guys in the neighborhood they were afraid of. Craig rapping about D-Bo's life isn't maturity and if fans co-signed it it's not maturity. Craig rapping about Craig's life is maturity.

 

[G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman]

No other genre besides hiphop does the artist feel the need to lie. If you don't care about it as fans then why do the rappers lie? They lie because they feel the masses would only accept them if they're something they're not.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

First off comparing Pac, who actually shot police, to Ross, who actually was police, is fukking hilarious. It's typical of you though.

And not only is Ross as fake as NWA was, he doesn't even have the "gangster rap pioneer" tag to fall back on. And that tag wasn't even enough to keep them from getting clowned, so why should Ross get a pass?

Anything else you'd care to add?

Fred.

You're either too stupid to understand the comparison to pac in this context, or too dedicated of a bullshytter to engage in a honest conversation with...after all these years I'm not sure, but is typical of you

The point, for those keeping score at home, is one is not automatically defined by your past...pac went from being a drama student as a teenager, to a fukking stripping backup dancer as a young adult, to an out of control superthug that was in and out of jail (despite never being arrested before.being famous), to claiming blood, jumping a dude in a gang related incident...and getting killed for it....a 19 year old ross was a CO for a year, as long as pac spent stripping for digital underground and shorter than pac spent studying drama in high school...but you fixate on his time as a CO like it defines his entire existence....now somehow in the years that followed, he managed to become a personal friend of one of the biggest dealers in MIA and had people with no affiliation to him (freddy p) claiming he and his people were the "big d boys in town, the money making dudes"...the same way Pac went from dancing in leopard drawls to stomping crips in casinos...life is complicated like that and don't always fit into.these cartoonish movie plot ideas of how shyt happens

The NWA shyt explains itself, its way too late in the.game to still.be.doing the "wait....everything said in songs and images portrayed in gangsta rap ain't exact depictions of real life "...nwa proved that shyt doesn't matter decades ago

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

But we knew Nas wasn't some super drug kingpin and he specifically created a persona for it with Esco.

Not really. He came up with the name Esco, but he never gave some statement declaring all his raps under this name were Plus mixed in a lot of true life experiences and views with his fake coke raps so there's defining line where Nas ends and Esco begins. Nas has said a lot of fake shyt in his career even after his Esco phase and we accept it. Again, to praise Nas and condemn Ross you have to draw an arbitrary, subjective line of acceptable fakeness somewhere.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Not really. He came up with the name Esco, but he never gave some statement declaring all his raps under this name were Plus mixed in a lot of true life experiences and views with his fake coke raps so there's defining line where Nas ends and Esco begins. Nas has said a lot of fake shyt in his career even after his Esco phase and we accept it. Again, to praise Nas and condemn Ross you have to draw an arbitrary, subjective line of acceptable fakeness somewhere.

The difference is Ross actually lied about it and denied it when being addressed about it...I think that's kinda huge VVD...

We know nikkaz lie in their rhymes all the time, but when the issue is brought to your face about something that you truly did and you hit the MJ "NAH" (knowing that the shyt is public record), that's as fugaze and fake as it can be.

Again, if Ross said "yeah, I did that shyt in the past for some bread but it wasn't for me", that would be one thing. He flat out DENIED it. So for him to come "clean" now that everything is all good is

The fact is he was afraid of losing his career over the CO shyt, that can't be denied.

still fux with Ross music though, but he's full of shyt.

 

[Lavish]

Me & you know exactly why he lied


Because Ross knew that regardless of what he said about it, nikkas who never as much as stepped foot in any hood or did any criminal activity was gonna question his authenticity. "nikka you talking about moving coke & you was a fukking C.O.?" Its the way the rap world works. Dweebs & nerds build rappers up as street deities & if as much as a morsel of information comes out that states otherwise, its a wrap. Think about all the corny shyt you've done in your life. Now think how much of a herb The Smoking Gun could make you look like if it documented all of that? What makes you think these rappers are any different?


None of us personally know Ross. We dont know what type shyt he was into & having 9 months of employment doesn't account for the other 28 years before he got into music Dweebs on here think if you worked a square job, then you can't be about street life. My brother did 8 years on & off. I'm not bragging or gloating, this story just applies here From 16 to 24, he was between Juvie & Prison. He got out at 21, 3 months later, right back in Finally got out at 24. Got shot in the head at 26. Again, no gloating. The story just applies


Now between getting out of jail & getting killed, he worked as a Paralegal. I bullshyt you not. He lied about having a record & them nikkas actually hired his black ass Eventually, it caught up with him & they fired his ass


Now if he was to have lived & became a rapper. The Smoking Gun would've put a picture online showing him in a suit in a law office looking like a herb & the world would've ran with it, when the nikka was as slimey as they come. I understand why Ross did what he did. He lied because he knew how fickle rap fans are.

Sorry to hear bout ur brother. That's hard

But of he was a rapper all he'd have to say is "yeah I was a paralegal"

Done

Plus the fact that he went to prison, shows that he was probably into street shyt. So people would likely not question him

I think when it comes to Ross, the problems that the only evidence we have is that he was a cop with perfect attendance, who lies about his past. There's no evidence of anything else.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

The difference is Ross actually lied about it and denied it when being addressed about it...I think that's kinda huge VVD...

We know nikkaz lie in their rhymes all the time, but when the issue is brought to your face about something that you truly did and you hit the MJ "NAH" (knowing that the shyt is public record), that's as fugaze and fake as it can be.

Again, if Ross said "yeah, I did that shyt in the past for some bread but it wasn't for me", that would be one thing. He flat out DENIED it. So for him to come "clean" now that everything is all good is

The fact is he was afraid of losing his career over the CO shyt, that can't be denied.

still fux with Ross music though, but he's full of shyt.

And once again, you're still drawing an arbitrary, subjective line of acceptable fakeness. Ross is just EXTREMELY fake, but it seems you're willing to concede some fakeness. My point is let's not get all sanctimonious about keeping it real here because virtually everybody accepts some fakeness from their favorite rappers. No one is really standing rock solid on principle here.

 

[Broccoli Rob]

ive got buddies that done hard time and when i ask em about ross being a former c.o they honestly dont give a shyt. most of them c.o's in there are just as cut throat as the inmates. offering nikkas to shoot a fair one, bringing dope in from outside. im not saying ross was doing this but people need to stop assuming a c.o is the same as a police officer out on the streets

Ross is a fraud for other reasons, but this is true. I live around Rikers and have known mad COs. They're degenerates nine times outta ten.

 

[YBE]

Sorry to hear bout ur brother. That's hard

But of he was a rapper all he'd have to say is "yeah I was a paralegal"

Done

Plus the fact that he went to prison, shows that he was probably into street shyt. So people would likely not question him

I think when it comes to Ross, the problems that the only evidence we have is that he was a cop with perfect attendance, who lies about his past. There's no evidence of anything else.

Naw...its good bruh. He been dead for almost 9 years now.

I'm just saying all that to say, I seen first hand dudes who was really about that shyt but, had square gigs at some point in their lives. The world thinks rappers have to have been on the block all day & if they ever attempted having a normal job, then they're a fraud. reading that type of shyt is fukking hilarious. Its not so black & white. My homie used to bag groceries with me at Walgreens, helping old ladies put food in her trunk & shyt......only for me to read about him getting shot in the back tryna to rob a liquor store