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"JULY 21--Apparently desperate to distance himself from any affiliation with law enforcement, the rapper Rick Ross has recently denounced as fake photos purporting to show him in a former career as a Florida prison guard. But Department of Corrections (DoC) records show that Ross, whose raps detail the Miami gangster lifestyle and his supposed days trafficking cocaine, did, in fact, work as a correctional officer for 18 months. Ross (real name: William Leonard Roberts) was appointed a prison guard in December 1995 at a salary of $22,913.54, according to the below personnel record, which was provided to TSG by Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a DoC spokesperson. The rapper's social security number is identical to that of the jail guard. According to the official document, Ross was earning $25,794.34 when he resigned in June 1997. After graduating from the DoC training academy, Ross was assigned to the South Florida Reception Center in Dade County (the lockup is one of three statewide that serves as an intake facility for new prisoners). When a photo of a uniform-clad Ross surfaced last week on MediaTakeOut.com, the 32-year-old performer claimed to AllHipHop.com that unnamed "online hackers" put "my face when I was a teenager in high school on other peoples' body. If this shit was real don't you think they would have more specifics, like dates and everything?" He added, "Fake pictures are created by the fake, meant to entertain the fake." The photo, which you can find here, shows a 19-year-old Ross at a DoC ceremony (he was part of the department's 60th graduating class). He is pictured shaking hands with Marta Villacorta, who then headed the South Florida Reception Center. Villacorta, now the department's South Florida regional director, was identified by Rackleff, who examined the photo Ross claims was Photoshopped. In a recent videotaped interview, Ross replied, "No, that's not true" when asked if he had worked as a prison guard. He claimed that the phony story was being circulated by detractors upset by his success in the rap world, where, "I came out of nowhere and just took over the streets." (2 pages)"

7/22/2008 2:46:50 PM

who cares...that whole stop snitching shit is gay anyways

7/22/2008 2:47:25 PM

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=530277

7/22/2008 2:50:48 PM

Idiot

7/22/2008 2:51:24 PM

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"story was being circulated by detractors upset by his success in the rap world, where, "I came out of nowhere and just took over the streets."

7/22/2008 2:57:29 PM

lol all i care about is if its got a good hook and beat


fuck all that gay ass thuggish "i run the streets" or "i sell 20lbs of cocaine a day" or "STOP SNITCHING"

7/22/2008 2:58:17 PM

who gives a damn, i dont see why he would need to distance himself from it


rap is entertainment, plus im pretty sure he grew up around what he raps about, more so thanyou


plus i like the way he rhymes

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:01 PM. Reason : s]

7/22/2008 3:00:42 PM

mtv cribs basically made rappers akin to wrestling in the fact that they act all hardcore, but you know its just entertainment, especially after you see their houses and shit...idk zomb probably could word it better

7/22/2008 3:04:16 PM

the dude in that pic is 19? thats a big damn dude

7/22/2008 3:05:28 PM

who's rick ross?

7/22/2008 3:06:16 PM

i'd tell you, but you'd have to get your head out of your ass

7/22/2008 3:06:47 PM

at least he was not in prison, and had a job.

7/22/2008 3:06:52 PM

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"who's rick ross?"

The biggest boss that you've seen thus far.

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:08 PM. Reason : .]

7/22/2008 3:07:53 PM

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"plus im pretty sure he grew up around what he raps about, more so thanyou"

and? I just thought it was funny

7/22/2008 3:08:15 PM

hahaha

7/22/2008 3:08:23 PM

seems like a black dude too hung up on "bling", to me...other than that, i suppose he's no one important

7/22/2008 3:08:37 PM

So you are calling this too hung up on bling?

7/22/2008 3:09:45 PM

aha

7/22/2008 3:10:20 PM

pretty phat chain


nothing beats chamillionaires imo

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:11 PM. Reason : king koopa]

7/22/2008 3:10:52 PM

I personally would never wear anything like that because it's not me (and I might be a few bucks short). But that chain is badass.

7/22/2008 3:12:02 PM

yeah me either...i dont even wear earings anymore cause rappers fucked that up for white dudes like me

7/22/2008 3:12:35 PM

^^^ i think i heard that (group?) mentioned on 30 rock...?

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:12 PM. Reason : arrows]

7/22/2008 3:12:47 PM

naw he's a rapper from Houston, not a group

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:13 PM. Reason : .]

7/22/2008 3:13:29 PM

feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace

7/22/2008 3:13:49 PM

I only read the first post.

Are rap fans like wrestling fans? I always figured there was a suspension of disbelief.

7/22/2008 3:18:21 PM

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""who's rick ross?""

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"The biggest boss that you've seen thus far."

winnar...now I can't get T-pain's part of that song outta my head!

cuz I got a Chevy with a 454 in the hood......

7/22/2008 3:18:44 PM

^^ yeah...except rap fans shoot people

[/stereotype]

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:19 PM. Reason : arrows]

7/22/2008 3:19:14 PM

hes from houston? thought he was from miami?

7/22/2008 3:20:05 PM

^that was my assumption too!

I could have sworn he was from Miami.

7/22/2008 3:21:02 PM

Nope, def from Houston

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:22 PM. Reason : I'm talking about Chamillionaire, I thought that's what he was referencing]

7/22/2008 3:21:35 PM

^^i mean he fuckin raps about it in every song lol

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 3:22 PM. Reason : ^well i'll be damned]

7/22/2008 3:21:50 PM

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"i dont even wear earings anymore cause rappers fucked that up for white dudes like me "

that's fucked up.


but the really most REAL rapper i've seen in miami is Trick Daddy. the dude is pretty grimy. i see him out and about alot.

7/22/2008 3:45:40 PM

ross came up on the h-town scene, and then once he started writing lyrics he started repping MIA

i dont know if he was from MIA and moved to houston and then back to MIA, or what

but as a rapper he came up under the houston set

7/22/2008 3:49:29 PM

I don't even think he spent that much time in Houston. I know he was born in Carol City, FL and that's where he started his group.

7/22/2008 3:59:49 PM

yeah but he spent a lot of time writing for houston rappers

maybe he didn't live there but i feel like i remember reading he did

this is all prior to CCC and being discovered by def jam and all that

7/22/2008 4:03:02 PM

please to put a new song in my head!!!

I think I shall listen to david banner.

7/22/2008 4:07:31 PM

Yo Gotti ft. Rick Ross "Miami"

7/22/2008 4:13:48 PM

i like the luxury tax song i think its on his latest album, its got wayne on it

i love those anthem songs he gets on with the horns and shit

7/22/2008 4:19:46 PM

time to make a new pandora station!!!

cstrom you should make me a mixtape (cd) and bring it with my Moe's k?

7/22/2008 4:20:42 PM

Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'
Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'
Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'
Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'
Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'
Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'
Hustle, hustlin' hustlin'

Everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm, everyday I'm, everyday I'm hustlin'
Ev-ev-ev-everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm hustlin'
Ev-ev-ev-everyday I'm hustlin'
Ev-ev-everyday I'm, everyday I'm, everyday I'm hustlin'
Everyday I'm hustlin' hustlin' hustlin' hust-hustlin'

7/22/2008 4:21:04 PM

7/22/2008 4:23:54 PM

Divababy I have so many tapes laying around I need to get rid of a few anyway. I'll see what I can find

7/22/2008 4:37:58 PM

That is my favorite picture hahaha

Yay...make me something good!!!

7/22/2008 4:40:21 PM

lol at this thread.

whip it hard. whip it, whip it, real hard.

7/22/2008 4:47:32 PM

PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT

7/22/2008 6:23:40 PM

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"that's fucked up."

being stereotyped always is

7/22/2008 7:29:10 PM

bttt for

7/22/2008 10:57:06 PM

LOOKIN LIKE A BOMB THREAT

7/22/2008 10:57:37 PM

It'll be harder for him to deny it now that there's video evidence:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

7/22/2008 11:18:51 PM

I am white and therefore have no idea what's going on in this thread

7/22/2008 11:21:47 PM