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RICK ROSS STANDS BEHIND HIS LYRICS: Rapper says songs about being drug boss are true despite reports of his past as a corrections officer.
*Rick Ross says he doesn't care what Smoking Gun says, he was a drug kingpin and his numerous songs about the culture of drug dealing are all from personal experience.
“When I’m making my music and talking about blow, it’s because I did it,” he told Don Diva magazine. “When I say I’m rich off cocaine it’s because I did it."
Last month, TheSmokingGun.com posted documents from 1997 showing that Ross, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, worked as a corrections officer. Ross said the information doesn't change the fact that he was still flossin' at the time.
“I was one of the only n***as in the city with a show truck at 19 (years old in 97) on Daytons with TVs doing my own independent thing. I done put a lot of losses in this game,” Ross says. “I done took losses in the street, losses with the music. I’ve been up and I’ve been down; that’s what makes me who I am.”
The real Freeway Ricky Ross, an incarcerated former LA drug trafficker, accused the Miami MC of stealing his name to create a fake street persona. The rapper brushes off these allegations by arguing that his status as a veteran in music and the streets keeps him above having to explain his actions to anyone else.
“I never ratted on a n***a, I never prosecuted a n***a, I never locked up a n***a that is first and foremost,” Ross said. “I always felt being the man that I am and the boss that I am I never owed a n***a an explanation. Every man gotta look his kids in the eye and have a reason for feeding them or not. For that sole reason I believed in the death penalty for rats and informants.
“I surpassed my life goals 18 months ago, but you see where I am now; sitting in a new Benz, $100,000 grand cash in my pocket and a dirty white tee,” Ross stated. “You know I’m strapped to the teeth. We got more bullets than we got dollars. That’s just how it goes and that’s how it’s going to go until the day we die…a n***a don’t like it, get at me. I’m the muthf**kin biggest boss that you seen this far.”
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