Did Miami rap impresario Rick Ross crib his best coke-dealing stories from inmates while working as a prison guard?
More like it!!!
The Smoking Gun has cleared up a minor controversy surrounding the hot-right-now rapper. Turns out, Ross was in fact a Florida corrections officer, despite his claim that pictures circulating online showing him in uniform were “fake.” Not that there is anything wrong with being a prison guard, mind you. Except when you explicitly deny as much, and especially when virtually all of your best-known songs (like Ross’ 2006 cocaine-dealing anthem “Hustlin’ ” and his recent hit with T-Pain, “The Boss”) hype the outlaw/drug kingpin lifestyle.
Ross released a statement last week denying that the photos were real, saying, in part, “My life is 100 percent real. These online hackers putting a picture of my face when I was a teenager in high school on other people’s body. If this was real don’t you think they would have more specifics, like dates and everything else?”
He also responded in a video interview that has already had more than 200,000 views on YouTube.
The New York-based Smoking Gun website verified that in fact Ross was employed by the South Florida Reception Center from 1995 to 1997. His starting salary? Around $23,000 a year.
Shaking our heads at all those HIP Hop stars who lie about their not so gangsta past just to get some street cred!!!!
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