Tattooed with pictures of AK-47s, Miami's six-foot, 300-pound rap figure known as Rick Ross embraced his city's reputation for drug trafficking on his debut single, 'Hustlin',' in 2006. While Atlanta and Houston artists were establishing their cities as Southern strongholds, Ross aimed at putting Miami back in rap's national spotlight.
Ross, real name William Roberts, grew up in Carol City, Florida, an impoverished northern suburb of Miami. Influenced by artists like Luther Campbell and the Notorious B.I.G., Roberts formed local rap group the Carol City Cartel and began rapping in the mid-'90s. (He took his rap name from Los Angeles drug kingpin 'Freeway' Rick Ross, who ran one of the largest crack cocaine distribution networks in the country during the '80s and early '90s.) Ross had a brief stint on Suave House Records, former label of Eightball & MJG, before he ended up on Miami-based Slip 'N' Slide Records, the label home of Trick Daddy and Trina. During the early to mid-2000s, he became popular and well-known locally through touring with Trick Daddy and appearing as a guest on a few Slip 'N' Slide releases, but didn't release any solo material until 2006. Once 'Hustlin' caught the ear of a few executives within the national industry, a bidding war ensued that included offers from Bad Boy CEO Sean 'Diddy' Combs and The Inc (formerly Murder Inc) president Irv Gotti. Nonetheless, Def Jam president and veteran rapper Jay-Z signed Ross to a multi-million-dollar deal. The Miami anthem 'Hustlin' went on to receive gold status from the RIAA in May 2006 and sold over a million ringtone units before the physical release of his debut album, Port of Miami.
Released in August 2006, Ross' debut was Slip 'N' Slide's first project under the Def Jam partnership, and it went to number one on the Billboard album chart. His follow-up, Trilla, was released the following year, prefaced with the Cool & Dre-produced title track. Early 2009 saw the release of Deeper Than Rap, an album greeted with numerous positive reviews in the hip-hop press.
In early 2010 he released the Teflon Don album featuring the hit single 'B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast).' The star-studded God Forgives, I Don't followed in 2012, with guest shots from Jay-Z and Mary J. At the start of 2013, he announced details of his sixth studio album. He enlisted the help of Scott Storch and DJ Khaled as executive producers and released the pre-album single 'No Games' featuring Future. The album, titled Mastermind, landed in March of 2014 with the simultaneous release of the single 'War Ready' featuring Young Jeezy.
Just six months later, Ross announced that he would be releasing his seventh studio album, Hood Billionaire, toward the end of 2014. The album arrived in November of that year and was preceded by the singles 'Elvis Presley Blvd.' And 'Keep Doin' That (Rich Bitch).'
In 2015, he dropped Black Dollar, a high-profile official mixtape that featured production from J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League and Jake One. The mixtape previewed that year's official album, Black Market, which landed late in the year, along with the accompanying single 'Sorry' featuring Chris Brown.
Future, Mary J. Blige, and Nas also made guest appearances on the LP. In 2016, Ross appeared with electronic producer Skrillex on the Suicide Squad film soundtrack cut 'Purple Lamborghini,' which went on to receive a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media. The Maybach don returned the following year with his ninth set, Rather You Than Me, which featured lead singles 'Buy Back the Block' with 2 Chainz and Gucci Mane and 'I Think She Like Me' with Ty Dolla $ign. Cyril Cordor.
ORIGIN Carol City, FL. BORN January 28, 1976.
LOS ANGELES - With the public in the U.S. And Latin America becoming increasingly skeptical of the war on drugs, key figures in a scandal that once rocked the Central Intelligence Agency are coming forward to tell their stories in a new documentary and in a series of interviews with The Huffington Post. More than 18 years have passed since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with his “Dark Alliance” newspaper series investigating the connections between the CIA, a crack cocaine explosion in the predominantly African-American neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, and the Nicaraguan Contra fighters - scandalous implications that outraged LA’s black community, severely damaged the intelligence agency's reputation and launched a number of federal investigations. It did not end well for Webb, however.
Major media, led by The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, worked to discredit his story. Under intense pressure, Webb's.
Webb was drummed out of journalism. One LA Times reporter recently for his leading role in the assault on Webb, but it came too late. Webb died in 2004 from an apparent suicide. Obituaries referred to his investigation as 'discredited.' Now, Webb’s bombshell expose is being explored anew in a documentary, “Freeway: Crack in the System,” directed by Marc Levin, which tells the story of “Freeway” Rick Ross, who created a crack empire in LA during the 1980s and is a key figure in Webb’s “Dark Alliance” narrative. The documentary is being released after the major motion picture “Kill The Messenger,” which features Jeremy Renner in the role of Webb and hits theaters on Friday.
Webb's investigation was published in the summer of 1996 in the San Jose Mercury News. In it, he reported that a drug ring that sold millions of dollars worth of cocaine in Los Angeles was funneling its profits to the CIA’s army in Nicaragua, known as the Contras. Webb’s original anonymous source for his series was Coral Baca, a confidante of Nicaraguan dealer Rafael Cornejo. Baca, Ross and members of his “Freeway boys” crew; cocaine importer and distributor Danilo Blandon; and LA Sheriff's Deputy Robert Juarez all were interviewed for Levin's film.
The dual release of the feature film and the documentary, along with the willingness of long-hesitant sources to come forward, suggests that Webb may have the last word after all. Webb’s entry point into the sordid tale of corruption was through Baca, a ghostlike figure in the Contra-cocaine narrative who has given precious few interviews over the decades.
Her name was revealed in Webb's 1998 book on the scandal, but was removed at her request in the paperback edition. Levin connected HuffPost with Baca and she agreed to an interview at a cafe in San Francisco. She said that she and Webb didn’t speak for years after he revealed her name, in betrayal of the conditions under which they spoke. He eventually apologized, said Baca, who is played by Paz Vega in “Kill The Messenger.' The major media that worked to undermine Webb's investigation acknowledged that Blandon was a major drug-runner as well as a Contra supporter, and that Ross was a leading distributor.
But those reports questioned how much drug money Blandon and his boss Norwin Meneses turned over to the Contras, and whether the Contras were aware of the source of the funds. During her interview with HuffPost, Baca recounted meeting Contra leader Adolfo Calero multiple times in the 1980s at Contra fundraisers in the San Francisco Bay Area. He would personally pick up duffel bags full of drug money, she said, which it was her job to count for Cornejo.
There was no question, she said, that Calero knew precisely how the money had been earned. Meneses' nickname, after all, was El Rey De Las Drogas - The King of Drugs. 'If he was stupid and had a lobotomy,' he might not have known it was drug money, Baca said. 'He knew exactly what it was.
He didn't care. He was there to fund the Contras, period.' (Baca made a to the Department of Justice for its 1997 review of Webb's allegations, as well as further allegations the investigators rejected.) Indeed, though the mainstream media at the time worked to poke holes in Webb's findings, believing that the Contra operation was not involved with drug-running takes an enormous suspension of disbelief. Even before Webb’s series was published, numerous government investigations and news reports had linked America's support for the Nicaraguan rebels with drug trafficking. After The Associated Press reported on these connections in 1985, for example, then-Sen.
John Kerry (D-Mass.) launched a congressional investigation. In 1989, Kerry released claiming that not only was there “considerable evidence” linking the Contra effort to trafficking of drugs and weapons, but that the U.S. Government knew about it. According to the report, many of the pilots ferrying weapons and supplies south for the CIA were known to have backgrounds in drug trafficking.
Kerry's investigation cited SETCO Aviation, the company the U.S. Had contracted to handle many of the flights, as an example of CIA complicity in the drug trade. According to a 1983 Customs Service report, SETCO was “headed by Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, a class I DEA violator.” Two years before the Iran-Contra scandal would begin to bubble up in the Reagan White House, pilot William Robert “Tosh” Plumlee that planes would routinely transport cocaine back to the U.S.
After dropping off arms for the Nicaraguan rebels. Plumlee has since spoken in detail about the flights in “In March, 1983, Plumlee contacted my Denver Senate Office and raised several issues including that covert U.S. Intelligence agencies were directly involved in the smuggling and distribution of drugs to raise funds for covert military operations against the government of Nicaragua,” a copy of reads. (Hart told HuffPost he recalls receiving Plumlee's letter and finding his allegations worthy of follow-up.) Plumlee flew weapons into Latin America for decades for the CIA. When the Contra revolution took off in the 1980s, Plumlee says he continued to transport arms south for the spy agency and bring cocaine back with him, with The Calero transactions Baca says she witnessed would have been no surprise to the Reagan White House. On April 15, 1985, around the time Baca says she saw Calero accepting bags of cash, Oliver North, the White House National Security Counsel official in charge of the Contra operation, was that Calero’s deputies were involved in the drug business.
Robert Owen, North’s top staffer in Central America, warned that Jose Robelo had “potential involvement with drug-running and the sale of goods provided by the U.S. Government” and that Sebastian Gonzalez was “now involved in drug-running out of Panama.” North’s own diary, originally uncovered by the National Security Archive, is a rich source of evidence as well. “Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into the U.S.,” reads an entry for Aug.
9, 1985, reflecting a conversation North had with Owen about Mario Calero, Adolfo’s brother. An entry from July 12, 1985 relates that “14 million to finance an arms depot came from drugs” and another a trip to Bolivia to pick up “paste.” (Paste is slang term for a crude cocaine derivative product comprised of coca leaves grown in the Andes as well as processing chemicals used during the cocaine manufacturing process.) Celerino Castillo, a top DEA agent in El Salvador, investigated the Contras' drug-running in the 1980s and repeatedly warned superiors, according to. Castillo “believes that North and the Contras’ resupply operation at Ilopango were running drugs for the Contras,” Mike Foster, an FBI agent who worked for the Iran-Contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, in 1991 after meeting with Castillo, who later wrote the book Powderburns about his efforts to expose the drug-running. Webb's investigation sent the CIA into a panic. A recently declassified article titled from the agency’s internal journal, “Studies In Intelligence,” shows that the spy agency was reeling in the weeks that followed. “The charges could hardly be worse,” the opens.
“A widely read newspaper series leads many Americans to believe CIA is guilty of at least complicity, if not conspiracy, in the outbreak of crack cocaine in America’s inner cities. In more extreme versions of the story circulating on talk radio and the Internet, the Agency was the instrument of a consistent strategy by the US Government to destroy the black community and to keep black Americans from advancing. Denunciations of CIA - reminiscent of the 1970s - abound. Investigations are demanded and initiated. The Congress gets involved.” The emergence of Webb’s story “posed a genuine public relations crisis for the Agency,” writes the CIA Directorate of Intelligence staffer, whose name is redacted.
In December 1997, CIA sources helped advance that narrative, telling reporters that an internal inspector general report sparked by Webb's investigation had exonerated the agency. Yet the itself, quietly released several weeks later, was actually deeply damaging to the CIA.
“In 1984, CIA received allegations that five individuals associated with the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE)/Sandino Revolutionary Front (FRS) were engaged in a drug trafficking conspiracy with a known narcotics trafficker, Jorge Morales,” the report found. “CIA broke off contact with ARDE in October 1984, but continued to have contact through 1986-87 with four of the individuals involved with Morales.” It also found that in October 1982, an immigration officer reported that, according to an informant in the Nicaraguan exile community in the Bay Area, “there are indications of links between a specific U.S.-based religious organization and two Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary groups. These links involve an exchange in the United States of narcotics for arms, which then are shipped to Nicaragua. A meeting on this matter is scheduled to be held in Costa Rica ‘within one month.’ Two names the informant has associated with this matter are Bergman Arguello, a UDN member and exile living in San Francisco, and Chicano Cardenal, resident of Nicaragua.'
The inspector general is clear that in some cases “CIA knowledge of allegations or information indicating that organizations or individuals had been involved in drug trafficking did not deter their use by CIA.” In other cases, “CIA did not act to verify drug trafficking allegations or information even when it had the opportunity to do so.” “Let me be frank about what we are finding,” the CIA’s inspector general, Frederick Hitz, said in in March 1998. “There are instances where CIA did not, in an expeditious or consistent fashion, cut off relationships with individuals supporting the Contra program who were alleged to have engaged in drug trafficking activity or take action to resolve the allegations.”. One of the keys to Webb's story was testimony from Danilo Blandon, who the Department of Justice once described as one of the most Nicaraguan drug importers in the 1980s. “You were running the LA operation, is that correct?” Blandon, who was serving as a government witness in the 1990s, was asked by Alan Fenster, attorney representing Rick Ross, in 1996. But remember, we were running, just - whatever we were running in LA, it goes, the profit, it was going to the Contra revolution,”.
Levin, the documentary filmmaker, tracked down Blandon in Managua. “Gary Webb tried to find me, Congresswoman Maxine Waters tried to find me, Oliver Stone tried to find me. You found me,” Blandon told Levin, according to notes from the interview the director provided to HuffPost. Waters, a congresswoman from Los Angeles, had followed Webb’s investigation with one of her own. In the interview notes with filmmaker Levin, Blandon confirms his support of the Contras and his role in drug trafficking, but downplays his significance. 'The big lie is that we started it all - the crack epidemic - we were just a small part.
There were the Torres brothers, the Colombians, and others,' he says. 'We were a little marble, pebble, rock and people are acting like we're big boulder.' The Managua lumberyard where Levin tracked down Blandon. Webb’s series connected the Contras' drug-running directly to the growth of crack in the U.S., and it was this connection that faced the most pushback from critics. While Blandon may have been operating on behalf of the Contras early in his career, they charged, he later broke off on his own. But an October 1986 arrest warrant for Blandon indicates that the LA County Sheriff's Department at the time had other information.
“Blandon is in charge of a sophisticated cocaine smuggling and distribution organization operating in southern California,” the warrant reads, according to “The monies gained through the sales of cocaine are transported to Florida and laundered through Orlando Murillo who is a high-ranking officer in a chain of banks in Florida. From this bank the monies are filtered to the Contra rebels to buy arms in the war in Nicaragua.” Blandon's number-one client was “Freeway” Rick Ross, whose name has since been usurped by the rapper William Leonard Roberts, better known by his stage name “Rick Ross” (an indignity that plays a major role in the film).
The original Ross, who was arrested in 1995 and freed from prison in 2009, that the prices and quantity Blandon was offering transformed him from a small-time dealer into what prosecutors would later describe as the most significant crack cocaine merchant in Los Angeles, if not the country. His empire - once dubbed the - expanded east from LA to major cities throughout the Midwest before he was eventually taken down during his old supplier and friend Blandon helped set up. Levin's film not only explores the corrupt foundations of the drug war itself, but also calls into question the draconian jail sentences the U.S. Justice system meted out to a mostly minority population, while the country's own foreign policy abetted the drug trade. “I knew that these laws were a mistake when we were writing them,' says Eric Sterling, who was counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in the 1980s and a key contributor to the passage of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, in the documentary.
In 1980, there were roughly 40,000 drug offenders in U.S. Prisons, according to, a prison sentencing reform group. By 2011, the number of drug offenders serving prison sentences ballooned to more than 500,000 - most of whom are not high-level operators and are without prior criminal records. 'There is no question that there are tens of thousands of black people in prison serving sentences that are decades excessive,” Sterling says.
Contents. Life and career 1976–2006: Early life and career beginnings William Leonard Roberts II was born in, and raised in. After graduating from, he attended the on a football scholarship. Roberts worked as a correctional officer for 18 months from December 1995, until his resignation in June 1997. In his early years at Suave House Records, Roberts initially made his debut under the pseudonym Teflon Da Don. He made his recording debut on the song 'Ain't Shhh to Discuss' on 's lone album for,. In the mid-2000s, he changed his name to Rick Ross.
He derived his stage name from the former drug kingpin, to whom he has no connection. After being signed to, former label for rap duo, he eventually signed a deal with Slip-n-Slide Records, which has been under the Def Jam label since 2006.
While signed to Slip-n-Slide, Roberts toured with fellow rapper and made guest performances on other Slip-n-Slide albums. 2006–08: Port of Miami and Trilla. Main articles: and His debut album was released in August 2006 and debuted at the top spot on the U.S. Album chart, with sales at 187,000 units during the first week. Christian Hoard of magazine predicted that it would be 'the summer's biggest rap record'. The second single was 'Push It', which samples ', the theme song from the gangster film. The music video for 'Push It' was modeled after the film.
During that time, Ross made guest performances on two singles from 's debut: 'Born-N-Raised' and '. Port of Miami received Gold certification from the on November 8, 2006. In March 2008, his second album was released and, as its predecessor Port of Miami had, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200.
Its lead single ' featuring peaked at number 21 on the U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles; the next one, ' featuring peaked at number 17 on the Hot 100. The third single ' featured and. Ranked Ross on the fourth spot in its 2008 'Hottest MCs in the Game' list among ten rappers. The fourth single 'This Is The Life' featured and was released in July. 2009: Deeper Than Rap.
Main article: I look at the game and the business and all different aspects, it's a lot of great lyricists on the corner that will never properly understand the business and know how to market themselves and get in a position where they can gain capital. I look at all the strategies people use and what made them successful.
What made Birdman just as relevant today after selling 50 million records? That intrigues me. To see the class of Jay-Z, his accomplishments and see how he sits backs and accurately makes his moves. A track from the album called 'Valley of Death' was what stood out to MTV reporters. In the song, Ross speaks briefly on his controversial stint as a prison guard.
'Keep it trilla, nigga, never had a gun and badge,' which he stresses, leaving the word that he was indeed an officer of the law. 'Kept a nice watch, smoking on a hundred sack/ Back in the day I sold crack for some nice kicks/ Skippin' school, I saw my friend stabbed with an ice pick/ Can't criticize niggas trying to get jobs/ Better get smart, young brother, live yours.' Later, he implies that while he was working as a corrections officer, he was on the streets. 'Only lived once and I got two kids/ And for me to feed them, I'll get two gigs,' he raps.
'I'll shovel shit, I'll C.O./ So we can bow our heads and pray over the meatloaf.' Although, he still provided no explanation for lying about being a C.O.
To begin with, nor did he explain why he failed to pay child support for his children. The cover of the May 2009 issue of, titled 'Rick Ross Up in Smoke', featured Ross wearing a pair of sunglasses. After publication, a spokesperson for the luxury-goods maker contacted XXL to inform them that Ross was sporting fake sunglasses in the cover image. It was later revealed that the rapper was wearing authentic Louis Vuitton sunglasses which were altered by Jacob Bernstein, known as 'The Sunglass Pimp'. Bernstein defended his customizations despite Louis Vuitton's insistence that such modification and resale of trademarked property is not legal. 2010–13: Prime Rick Ross Ross had a number of accomplishments in 2010.
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In May, he released the critically acclaimed Albert Anastasia EP. He followed that up by releasing his fourth studio album entitled Teflon Don, which was released on July 20, 2010. The lead single was ' featuring. Actress made an appearance in the music video.
A second official single was released titled 'Live Fast, Die Young' which features and is produced. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 selling 176,000 copies in its first week. In November 2010, rapper and frequent collaborator, who in 2009 signed Ross to a management deal with his, announced from his YouTube account, that he and Ross are working on an EP together. A single was released for the project, called 'Another One'. Ross ended 2010 by releasing another mixtape, Ashes To Ashes on Christmas Eve 2010. Rick Ross performing in 2011.
In early 2011, Rick Ross signed Wale and Meek Mill to his Maybach Music Group imprint. The group released their debut compilation album, in May. Rick Ross performed at, which aired on June 26, 2011. He also received a nomination for Best Male Hip Hop Artist. In early 2012, Ross was named the. 2012 was another very successful year for Ross' career. He started the year by premiering his mixtape to universal acclaim.
Ross' MMG camp released their second compilation, in June 2012. Less than a month later, Ross' fifth studio album, was released on July 31, 2012 after a few delays. Upon its release, the album charted at number eight on the UK Albums Chart and number two on the UK R&B Albums Chart, making it Ross's highest-charting album and first top 10 album in the United Kingdom. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 218,000 copies. Ross premiered four songs: 'So Sophisticated' featuring, ' featuring, 'Hold Me Back', and '3 Kings' featuring and. The album was certified gold in less than two months.
To celebrate his accomplishment and promote his upcoming MMG Tour, Ross released a mixtape, The Black Bar Mitzvah in October. Rick Ross was nominated by as its 'Man of the Year'. On January 7, 2013, Ross revealed the title of his sixth album to be. The album was set to be released in 2013. The first promotional single from the album would come in the form of 'Box Chevy' which was released to iTunes on February 15, 2013. The music video was filmed on April 1, 2013 and features cameos from MMG members, and. During 2008, it was announced that Ross was set to release a collaboration album with his longtime friend titled The H, but after that, no information on the album was released.
On May 16, 2013, Birdman and Rick Ross announced that The H would be released as a mixtape hosted by on May 23, 2013. The project was recorded during a couple of days in 2008.
On September 5, 2013, Ross premiered the first official single from Mastermind, 'No Games' featuring produced. The following day, it was released to radio.
It was followed by the singles ' with Jay-Z and 'War Ready' with Jeezy. 2014: 2 Album, 1 Year Rick Ross released his sixth studio album, Mastermind, in March 2014, the album received generally positive reviews from critics and debuted at number one on the chart with first week sales of 179,000 copies. As of April 8, 2014, the album has sold over 290,000 copies in the United States.
In June 2014, it was announced that Ross would make a guest appearance on the docu-series. In October 2014, Ross announced he would be releasing another album, Hood Billionaire, in order to make up for Meek Mill's album being shelved due to his incarceration. Rick Ross revealed cover art for in October 2014 and announced the release date to be set for November 24, 2014. The album received mixed reviews, from fans and critics alike. 2015–present: The Renzel Era and Epic Records Ross had a mix of both adversity and accomplishments in 2015.
Ross was arrested for kidnapping and assault charges and was sentenced to house arrest in his Georgia home. Ross joined the platform and began referring to himself as 'Renzel', a play on the name of famous actor. In September, Ross released a mixtape, Black Dollar, his third full-length release since March 2014. He soon announced his eight studio album, for a December 2015 release. To promote his upcoming release, Ross released a remix tape, Renzel Remixes on Thanksgiving 2015.
Black Market was released on December 4, 2015 and it served as Ross' final album with his original contract with Def Jam. The album's song ' Free Enterprise' stirred up controversy because the lyrics included the line 'Assassinate Trump like I'm Zimmerman' evidently referring to the 45th President of the United States, In January 2016 after much speculation, Rick Ross signed a solo deal with, reuniting him with, who originally played a major role in signing Ross to Def Jam. On February 21, 2016, Rick Ross remixed Kanye West's 'Famous'. Ross was active in 2016, releasing many songs including 'Make It Work' off of Self Made Vol. 4, 'Purple Lamborghini' of, 'Supa Cindy', and 'Freaky Hoe'. He announced his ninth studio album, Rather You Than Me, was slated for a March 2017 release.
Personal life Religion Rick Ross is a, and in an interview with Corey 'Coco Brother' Condrey on, he indicated that 'I had told myself at one point no matter what I go through, I never question God.' In addition, Ross indicated that he every time he goes on stage to perform. Correctional officer photos In July 2008, produced details linking Ross' social security number to an 18-month stint as a correctional officer at the South Florida Reception Center, along with a photograph first publicized by purporting to be Ross in his uniform. Ross initially denied that the photograph was of him, but after overwhelming evidence of his past came into the public's eye, Ross later admitted that he did work as a correctional officer in Florida for 18 months between 1995 and 1997.
In a 2008 interview with AllHipHop.com, claimed offense that Roberts used his name and identity when he learned that The Smoking Gun posted documents revealing Roberts' previous employment as a Florida correctional officer. Seizures On October 14, 2011, Ross suffered two seizures in the same day, once in the morning and again in the early evening. Following the morning seizure, he was unconscious and was performed. After suffering the second seizure, Ross was admitted to a hospital in, where doctors ran a battery of tests. They declared him healthy. Ross attributes the episodes to a lack of sleep in the previous week. Ross later noted the incident in the remix of 's song ', with the line 'Had a couple seizures, call it minor setbacks / Everybody praying for me, I respect that / Woke up in the hospital, where my checks?
/ Then I put 8 chains where my neck's at'. Drive-by shooting On January 27, 2013, while celebrating his 37th birthday, Ross and his girlfriend were the targets of a in. Neither Ross nor his girlfriend were hurt, but they ended up crashing their car into an apartment in an attempt to escape the shooting.
Legal issues. Of Ross, 2008 In January 2008, Ross was arrested on gun and marijuana charges. During a deposition of Officer Rey Hernandez, a Miami Beach cop who arrested Ross, Ross's lawyer, Allan Zamren, asked Hernandez why Ross's case was assigned to the gang task force. The officer stated that it was because Ross claimed affiliation with (aka Carol City Cartel), and other known gang members. Zamren pressed Hernandez for a personal link between Ross and the gang members, but the officer did not provide proof.
In August 2008, YouTube entertainer filed a lawsuit against Ross for assault and battery. Vlad claimed Ross organized an ambush on him at the 2008 Ozone Awards in, Texas for asking questions about his past as a correctional officer. On June 18, 2010, 'Freeway' Ricky Ross sued Rick Ross for using his name, filing a in a California federal court. Had been called to testify in the lawsuit, as he was CEO of Def Jam when Ross/Roberts was signed. 'Freeway' Ricky Ross, a reformed drug kingpin, sought $10 million in damages in his lawsuit. Also, Freeway Ricky Ross threatened to block the release of Ross' album,.
A week after the lawsuit was filed, Rick Ross responded to the charges: 'It's like owning a restaurant, you're gonna have a few slip and falls. You get lawsuits, you deal with them, and get them out your waysometimes you lose.' He denied rumors that he would change his name to 'Ricky Rozay' as a consequence of the lawsuit. The lawsuit was thrown out of court on July 3, 2010. Ross album Teflon Don was released on July 20 as scheduled. In 2011, the rapper Teflon Don filed a lawsuit against Ross for the use of the name as an album title. On March 26, 2011, Ross was arrested in Shreveport for possession of.
According to the police records, a strong odor of marijuana was detected from his room at the Hilton in Downtown Shreveport. On June 24, 2015, Rick Ross and his bodyguard were arrested in on kidnapping and assault charges. Both were accused for forcing a lands keeper into a guesthouse and beating him in the head with a handgun, allegedly over money he owed Ross. Business ventures As of 2017, Ross currently owns several different restaurant locations. Controversy Feud with 50 Cent In January 2009, Ross started a feud with rapper because he supposedly looked at him the wrong way at the in 2008.
50 Cent told news sources that he did not remember seeing Ross there. In late January, 'Mafia Music', by Ross, leaked onto the Internet. There were several lines that seemed to diss 50 Cent. Days later, 50 Cent released 'Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)' in response to Ross's disparaging remarks on his 'Mafia Music' song. Before going to, 50 Cent uploaded a video entitled 'Warning Shot', wherein he stated: 'Rick Ross- I'mma fuck your life up for fun.' In addition, 50 Cent released the first of a series of 'Officer Ricky' cartoons.
Early in February, 50 Cent once again made a video which he uploaded to YouTube in which he interviewed 'Tia', the mother of one of Ross's children. She verifies that he was a correctional officer and claims his whole persona is fake and fraudulent. On February 5, 2009, who 50 Cent has a long-standing 'beef' with, called up R&B station. When asked about the beef between 50 Cent and Ross, Game sided with 50 Cent and said that things are not looking good for Ross. He offered to help, stating, 'Rick Ross, holla at your boy, man,' and, '50 eating you, boy.' On his album, Ross references 50 Cent in the song 'In Cold Blood'.
A video for the song was released that portrayed 50 Cent's mock funeral. Upon release, Ross stated that he has ended 50 Cent's career.
That same day Ross released a new diss track called 'Push 'Em Over The Edge'. The next day 50 Cent released the controversial video 'A Psychic Told Me', dissing. On February 12, 50 Cent responded with 'Tia Told Me', along with Lloyd Banks' response 'Officer Down' and Tony Yayo's 'Somebody Snitched'. In an interview, 50 Cent said Ross is 'Albert From. You ever seen the movie? He's Albert,' he added.
'It never gets worse than this. You get a guy that was a correctional officer come out and base his entire career on writing material from a drug dealer's perspective.' On January 30, 2013, 50 Cent claimed via Twitter that the drive-by shooting that Ross experienced on his birthday two days ago was 'staged', reigniting the feud. A year later, on March 28, 2014, Rick Ross was asked about his feud with 50 Cent.
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He stated that he doesn't wish to speak on him anymore, and that he's done with the feud. Recently, his feud with 50 Cent has been resurfacing. The reason of the second reigition would be because of Ross' MMG record-label artist, who defended his mentor and called out 50 on his 4/4 EP. Lyric controversy In a line on rapper 's song 'U.O.E.N.O.' , Rick Ross raps the line, 'Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain't even know it/ I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain't even know it.' A petition containing 72,000 signatures was presented to, demanding they drop Ross as a spokesman for the lyrics which appeared to condone. Ross has apologized for the lyrics, claiming they weren't about rape.
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He was dropped by Reebok on April 11, 2013. A Ross concert organized by the student association of was cancelled after protests that his lyrics promote 'rape culture'. Rocko later dropped the Rick Ross verse in order to get radio play. Main articles: and Solo studio albums.
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