: MediaTakeOut.com was the FIRST NEWS SOURCE IN THE WORLD to show you the photo of rapper Rick Ross as a Florida corrections officer. After word got to Ross of our EXCLUSIVE photo, he claimed that it was photoshopped.
Well, now the website TheSmokingGun.com discxovered what we knew all along - that the photo was REAL. Here's what they're reporting:
[Rick] 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.Some of y'all in the mainstream media owe us an apology....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 left the department 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).
LOOK PPL, PEOPLE IS NOT SAYING IT WASN'T A HONEST LIVING. THAT'S ALL GOOD. WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT THAT WHY NO SHOWCASE U HAD A HONEST LIVING AND MADE IT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY GETTING MILLIONS. WHY KEEP FAKING IT WHEN THE TRUTH IS CLEAR. *** I'M NO EM FAN LIKE THAT BUT *** HE SAID HE WORKED AT PIZZA HUT OR SOME ***. I MEAN THE MAN PASS THE C.O. TRAINING, HE ALSO WENT TO COLLEGE ON A FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP, I MEAN WHY NOT TELL THE YOUTH U NOT JUST SOME THUGGED OUT RAPPER NOW BUT YOU WENT TO COLLEGE OR TRIED IT AND HAD A HONEST JOB. HE'S MAKING IT WORST WITH THIS "PHOTOSHOPPED BY THE FAKE TO ENTERTAIN THE FAKE" STOP THE *** U FAKE. I'M GLAD I NEVA BROUGHT HIS ***. JUST DOWNLOADED A FEW SONGS.
WELL, this is the first time commenting on this site, but ima welcome my *** self peoples, the names *** stab kill, nice to meet ya, and all that other stuff, now, to this phoney *** drug lord!!!!!!!! i have read all yahll comments and i have to say, a good percentage of yahll is blind to the fact of the reason alot of people are saying *** rick ross now. For one, he lied about having a good decent gig, which alot of us out here have, whats the reason to lie, craig, ha! and for 2, u are not appossed to lie about being a drug lord, and running FL, and expect to not get disrepected when we find out the truth, cause i can see if he said he was a petty hustler or something, but nawwwww, this big dope going keep running his mouth on tracks talking bout he the biggest boss we done seen thus far, living in imaginary land ***, and for 3, this lame *** *** really wishes he was the real ricky ross!!! if you dont know about the real ricky ross, do your research!!! the fake stuff goes on and on about this cat, and i dont care if yahll say im hateing, because hate is great if its for a good cause, and exposing a fraud is a excilent cause, *** i just wrote a book!!! ha!
@ DEEJH Flag post wtf mto stop posting this garbage...yall ppl who think this is rick ross seriously need glasses, juss because the dude fat and black don't mean [EXPLETIVE]...and yall steal all yall stories from [SPAM] and [SPAM]hiphop.com...bunch of lames ------------- LOOK I'M NOT TRYING TO GET INTO IT WITH U BUT RICK ROSS ALREADY SAID THAT'S HIM BABY. DOING A LIVE INTERVIEW. HE CLAIMED HIS FACE BUT WOULDN'T CLAIM THE BODY WHEN WE ALL KNOW U CAN'T PHOTOSHOP NEGATIVES. IT'S OK HE JUST NEED TO COME OUT AND TELL THE TRUTH BUT THE BIGGEST THING A MAN CAN'T DO IS HURT HIS OWN FALSE PRIDE THATS WHAT'S KILLIN HIM RIGHT NOW, HIS SO CALL STREET CRED AND PRIDE.
WAt yall are failing to relize is the man is jus making music that he know ppl will listen to its not about him denying he just never said nothing cuz im pretty sure he knew this was the reaction he was gonna get......HOw many ppl can honestly say if he would have been making money bout his CO days and how he went to school yall would actually buy his music..Hell 50 cent lied bout his whole life *** near and ***'s is on the pipe hard...let be real ............
@champhf i agree lol
Whether it's him or not, y'all the dumb *** if y'all really thought he was a drug lord in the first place. Who the hell would go from drug lord to rapper? A hand full of rappers sold drugs, but they were just petty dealers. The only big time drug dealers that I've read about that got involved in the record business, started their own record company. That's where the big money is. Plus, if he makes good music, who give a rat's *** about his past?
i dont kno y he lyin dude u was only 19 its jobs everybody done had win dey waz younger dat dey may had not liked dey jus did it for da money *** it looks like he was makin gud money at 19 i would of took da job 2 big deal u grown now man no need to lie *** u waz only workin dere from 95 to 97 two yrs its not sayin after dat he didn't go on to sellin drugs i dont get these rappers they be havin alot of skeltons in dey closet but for wat tryna betray a boss image 4 wat it pointless *** if yall look at trina old video ft rick ross called told yall he looks jus like the dude in da pic jus a lil older
The big news is that he is a big fat sell out.I'm sure there are some C.O.'s that ain't straight herbs but I'm also sure that there ain't one C.O. that ended up being the Biggest Boss. If it's in your make-up to be a C.O. then it's not in your make-up to be that super real gangsta. He had to sign up for the job in the beginning he knew he was going to have to cuff jokers and lock jokers in their cell. Some of you'll don't see nothing wrong with this but I know there ain't too many real gangstas that want to lock them bars on other gangstas. In his heart he couldn't have been a official gangsta locking jokers up. That is why he denied this because he is a fraud and he knows that real gangstas ain't C.O.'s. He should of manned up and told the truth that he was a Big Fat Baby Gangster and then people might have left him alone. Now for all the regular people if you'll still want to be this fraudulent *** fans it's all good do you. For the real jokers that have been through something that have had them bars locked behind them don't sing one more lyric from this fake *** B$$$$! Holla! EARLY!!!!!!!
everyone needs to stop being so blinded by the fact, that these are actors with a hellauva writing skillz. you think any of these rappers where king pins, come the f$ck on people. i guess little "kiss my daddy in the mouth" wayne got those tear drops for killing someone.just because he and everyone else is creating these stories of dope selling, and robbing doesnt make him a punk of ho$.spike lee, john singelton gets paid millions to create stories for people to go see. these are doing the same thing in music form, and getting paid millions. real king pins dont become rappers, actors or *** like that. little dope niccas , on the corner niccas,meet at the gas station niccas become these people. stop hating on him, lil wayne, plies, and the rest of the actors for making money of the *** this society loves......THE GANGSTA LIFESTYLE...OH YEA DETROIT IS IN THE BUILDING
Everybody saying he a Fake and all that, BUT all they got is a Picture of a Fat ***. I could look at that nicca and call him Biggie LOL! Yall need more info, not just a pic of a fat boy in a uniform. Now I aint no Stan for the nicca, I only got like 5 songs from him on my Ipod but all they are showing is a picture of this Fat guy in a uniform. Not much info.
It don't make a difference what he did before he started rapping some say oh he's fake *** he's fake because he had a job at a jail then got a rapping career wow. Well Rick Ross I say if it's true so *** what I respect a man doing what he got to do and a man that was a c.o and not behind those bars alot can judge but *** because you never know where you'll end up.
TRICK DADDY CAME TO DETROIT ABOUT 4 YRS AGO, CALLED SOME HOMETOWN RAPPER.....AND GOT HIS A$$ WHOPPED. LIL WAYNE KISSED BABY IN THE MOUTH, AND YALL CALL HIM THE BEST RAPPER" ALBUM IS GARBAGE BY THE WAY". SO HE'S NOT A FAKE, HE'S MAKING MONEY AND WE ARE LOVING HIS STORIES. HE PROBABLY WAS A DRUG DEALER....BUT SELLING THE NICKEL BAGS AT THE CORNER LIQUR STORE LOL. HAVE OF YOU FEMALES HAVE FAKE HAIR AND NAILS...DOES THAT MAKE YOU FAKE OR AN IMPOSTER.... I KILLED 1 MORE CAT, WHEN IM I GOING TO GET SIGNED...LMAO
To all you people talkin about "at least he had a job, whats wrong with being a CO" or "who cares what he did before rap"
Cut the BS
The man denied the picture was him so obviously he's ashamed of his past. But for what reason? Why you gonna praise a man that denies he had a legitamite job in the past??
Young kids look at rappers like Rick Ross and try do be like them. How many kids you think he inspired to actually get into the dope game and try to make millions. Something he never did himself. I don't want to hear that its the parents fault neither because there are no fathers present. Kids idolize rappers like Rick Ross and he's talking about things that he never did. And to top it off, he's ashamed to admit he ever worked!!
Its disgusting. He deserves this SUPER EXPOSURE!!
Cop that Nas album!!!!
ok big deal he is a black man with a legal job, oh i forgot hes black he gotta be ashamed, please rick be a drug dealer please rick, thats what black men are criminals, please rick be a criminal thats the only thing that gets black women wet, criminals.please rick be a aids infected criminal so all the black women will love you,
For all the people who can't comprehend and want to keep praising this clown for having a "real job",' He's ashamed of his real job! You were never supposed to know about this. He got exposed idiots, wake up. He didn't even start out gangsta rapping when he initially came put on slip and slide. please do some research. What will he rap about now? What do yall want to hear that he has to say? Trick is definitely a hater but he *** his whole operation down. It's over!
..lol.so what MTO?...ok I've had to defend my boo about wht mto?JUST "revealed" when the rumor has been circulating...yeah yeah been knowing i mean thts my man... he was a "turn key".a CO..but was dealing w the don dottas and bosses behind bars.hence his success in pushing so much weight in so little time..SMART.at least and isnt it a good thing to do something w ones life while waiting on the next move.wht he shld hv been robbing?dealing dope ON the street?killing?gang banging?drop out of high school? The Game was stripping at house parties up the st.(i live in la)w a red fade?!?P diddy is a *** for how he sold out Shine which lead to his conviction..hv u heard "ether" thts by Nas all tht *** was true about jay z...lil cease and them snitched on kim..the number one no no in the game....and if i hd time i cld break down many artist who did some weird stuff bf fame..lol
.AND...mto??wht a joke...did u know...85%of info on this is FALSE!!!....and yes tht is my man always!!!i love him and hands down one of the most respected rappers in the game.u cant tell me when his voice comes on a track it aint mind blowing..he don't talk about nothing like all deep and ***..but who does I mean JD got a song "dont step on my J's" but he's so great too!!!!and his CD "Trilla" can compete (forget numbers) w Carter 3 i love wayne been on him since yall mofo's...97..he used to roll to Xaviers campus and spit but TRILLA is off the chain 1-??? *** the whole CD!!!!!
maybe he should be on the "Mrs Officer" remix w wayne and call it Mr officer...and let these petty hustlers know how to really do it like the rest of these crooked cops..*** i just gave one [C.O.] a couple of dollars to make sure my folks was straight and eating good and *** while on lock down...i love you William aka Ricky Ross the boss....yall aint on it...listen to that Maybach music.nickkaa..."posted up in front of popeyes nickkaa"..... "jeans tight fitting too"..!!!!!!!lol
BUSTED
I'm not surprised this Hip-Hop ish is dead. you got these CB4 rappers in the game. TI was a supposedly hustler now he turned snitch, LIL Wayne is a down Low Brother, 50 messes with the police, Snoop was a former gang banger turned ***, young Buck crying over the phone to another man, The game Crying all the time. Ice cube was a so-called gangster rapper turned family movie actor..
Wow.. all that and people still believe that these guys are real gangsters..
These guys are no different that the Actors that play a role in your favorite movie. don't take it serios. they are only playing a part
@ 7773911 i know i wrote alot, and to answer your question, yes it was important that i did speak on how i feel about this fake prophet rapper, he dont deserve props and love from real street people if he is not telling the truth. Fake dont mix good in the hood, maybe you from a fake hood where being fake is not that bad, it must suck to be from your hood, LAME! ha!
And too all these fake people on this site that keep saying, its not that bad that he lied, and at least he had a 9 to 5, and what ever else non sence yahll are saying to defend this fake phoney, for one, yahll must be the type of people that believe everything someone tells you, like, someone says there the president of the united states, O yea i knew you where!!!! yahll are just blinded by his music, and his persona, which make yahll stans, and is sad because his music is not that hott, its ok but not hott, and even if it was hott, it dont matter because he fake, stop blieveing all you here and feeding into it dummies, yahll sound pathetic on here seriously, and most of yahll sound like yahll are in yahll 20s or 30s which brings me to the point that yahll who feed into the hype need to all kill ya selves for being soo stupid and nieve. i mean ***, come on, even DJ Kahlad expossed fake ross, and yahll still dont believe this stuff, what a shame people!!!!!!
none of yall seem to get it so Im gonna break it down
for you all .....ONE MO GIN
this is why We dont LIKE HIM
if he was on records.. bragging about how he had a legal job and got to the millions wit that legal job
ALL OF US WOULD RESPECT HIM
but some of us (those of us with brains/common sense)
are not feelin RICK ROSS because he is braggin about being a kingpin when he use to be a Corrections Officer
if he was a former Senator. former DEA agent i might even think... *** he coulda really been gettin it in the way he talk
but he was just a C.O. not like he worked border control for Miami or something... just a simple old correction officer
and we feel that is what he should be promoting in his songs not some FICTIONAL CHARACTER that young dudes are gonna find some association wit in his songs
*** then want to continue down the wrong path because of his ficticious rapping
Some of you idolize these rappers too much, when none of them has paid your mortgage or set your kids up in a trust fund for college. He deserves to be ridiculed for being a fraud. He praises a drug life, as does his studio, and some of you go along with the ***? His music is wack, and now he will not sell if it's any karma.
Lord help me but... I don't think that's him. Look at the original photo... Look at where the male in question and the female in the picture meet hands... Their not shaking hands, but it looks like she's handing him something, But there is nothing in either one's hand.
Another thing... The article mentioned something about verification through his social security number. That's not possible because social security numbers are not a matter of public record. That's a HIPPA violation. The *** that TheSmokingGun has on their site is from a Human Resources Department. Anyone that has a job has a file similiar to that, It shows and management changes, Pay raises, Department transfers, etc, etc... *** like that don't show your social security number.
1. This is why these kids are out in the streets gettin *** up for nothin...in real life, *** hustle petty drugs for (at the most) 4 years b4 they do their first bid, after that its just a cycle of in and out of prison...they never become "bosses", and they are never able to make it on the outside b/c their minds have become "institutionalized"
2. You "Stans" out there really need to sit back and wonder why you're getting so emotional over a *** that doesn't pay your bills...Rick Ross don't care about you, he LIED to you! Idolize someone who's trying to speak some truth, for God's sake...
How in Gods name did these ppl find out about his social security number?!?!? How the heck ya'll get this info MTO lol??? Who the hell is sellin out Ross like that?? How did yall get these pictures???
Ontop of that, ppl in Carol City BEEN know he was a 5 0 and they dont care cuz he still got fans.
Point is, it dont matter...get off his $#!T 4real yo, MTO I love yall but ***!!!!
SOME OF YA'LL ON HERE ACT LIKE YA'LL ARE FUGGIN STUPID OR SOMETHING. IT'S NOT THE POINT THAT RICK ROSS WAS A CORRECTIONS OFFICER, THE POINT IS THAT HE LIED ABOUT NOT BEING ONE AS IF HE WAS ASHAMED TO HAVE A FUGGIN JOB. THEN HE TURNS AROUND BECOMES A RAPPER AND TALKS ALL THIS HE SOLD WEIGHT BULLSH*T WHEN YOU GOT N*GGAS WHO REALLY DID THAT WHO ACTUALLY EITHER GOT MURDERED OR ARE DOING TIME AND THIS FAKE *** BARRY WHITE LOOKIN *** RAPPIN ALL THIS FAKE SH*T TO THESE KIDS SAYIN HE KNOWS THE REAL NOREAGA AND HE MADE A MILLION PUSHING WEIGHT LAST YEAR. FUGG THIS FAKE *** IMPOSTER. STOP BEING A LAME *** N*GGA GLORIFYING SOME SH*T YOU DIDN'T LIVE. RAP ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW OR WHAT YOU'VE SEEN OR EXPERIENCED AND IF THE MUSIC IS GOOD I DON'T REALLY THINK NOBODY WILL CARE ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER IF THE SH*T SOUNDS GOOD. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DOPE TO IMPRESS HOOD N*GGAS. I'M A HOOD N*GGA AND I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT A N*GGA TALKIN ABOUT DOPE TO ME BECAUSE I DON'T FUGG WITH DOPE, I DON'T SELL IT OR NONE OF THAT SH*T AND PRETTY SURE THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS LIKE ME WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT SH*T EITHER. SO FUGG RICK ROSS *** ASS. I ALWAYS THOUGHT HE WAS A WACK *** RAPPER ANYWAY.
illslogic is right..its not the point that he had a legitimate job..kuddos to all black young men who go out & get a job thats wonderful..the point is that he was a correctional officer..he sits up & talks about all he's been through & all he's done in the game..im a firm believer that the game is ova & all hustlers need to find some other profession as i lost my love 2 the game..im an artist and although i may exaggerate on what ive seen and done i would never be a corrections officer and my major is criminal justice..i could never lock someone up although some need to be locked up i would have to leave that profession to another person..and someone who claims how real they are and how much dope they used to push just "simply put" cant be a co..if you real its just not in your blood..i couldnt leave all those people locked up after every ***..that sh*t would make me literally sick..so for rick ross realness just cant be in his blood..i hate to be around any type of police whether its a co,security guard,etc..you a mark you a snitch and you will worsen anothers life to make yours better..rick ross is a fake a55 ni**a who can live with puttin handcuffs on a brother & lockin a bro up in a cage every ***..he can sleep knowin he did this..mark a55 buster
I think all this new rap is entertainment rap anyway. Nelly, Ross, *** Lo, and about 90% of these rap cats are just entertainers. Actors. No different than Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. They play a roll, we pretend to buy into what they say they are (doctor, lawyer, rapper) and life moves on.
All this talk of keeping it real is kinda... silly. Its not like Rick Ross is challenging Tupac or Biggie. And with that said, Pac wasn't as gangsta as he made out and Biggie was far from Frank White in NY.
Me personally, Imma let him be what he is. A big fat rich lying entertainment rapper. If you look at it like that, you won't care.
YOU DUMB MF BELIEVE ANYTHING RAPPERS TELL YOU
first of all why do yall think he a fake gangsta bcuz he had a job. thats smart as hell. cause he has proof of a income coming in if the police had tried to accuse him of somethen. and anyway the police and CO's are corrupt as hell. he was prbly gettn his hustle on at the jail.
= OKAY DUMB *** AND YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT
So what he was a Corrections Office? People have to eat.Why are ya'll riding on this man ***. Media Take Out, are ya'll white folks are something ???? Why are you hating because he had a job, who cares.HE WAS WORKING !!! People do what they have to, to survive.CASE CLOSED. Media take out,seem like ya'll trying to get the Black rappers against each other. MEDIA TAKE OUT. YA LL ACTING LIKE A JUDGE, AND WHEN YOU DIE,YOU WILL HAVE FLASH-BACKS.
WHAT I WANNA KNOW IS:
WHY ARE YA'LL SO WORRIED ABOUT HOW ANOTHER MAN STACK HIS PAPER??
LEMME SAY THIS: WHEN YALL STOP COMMENTING ON HOW OTHER PEOPLE MAKE MONEY AND COME UP WITH A WAY TO MAKE MORE MONEY THAN ROSS, THEN YOU CAN COMMENT ON HOW PEOPLE STACKIN THEIR PAPER!!
AND TRICK DADDY A RAT AND A HATER CUZ ROSS MAKIN MORE THAN HIM!!
CASE CLOSED
Hate to say this but, F*CK YOU mto for running this dumb azz ad. First of all, at least he's got a d*amn job and he's not dead, selling drugs, or in jail as a prisoner! So, the f*ck what if he's only making 25 a year so, at least he can vote how many f*cking black men in America can do that? He's not a felon hes a *** man! So, what if he's not living in a beach house in California should he be walking around with his head down because, he didn't become the next Puffy or Tupac...wait, Tupac's dead sorry.
I think it's a d*mn shame when a supposed "black" website tries to talk greasy about a man who finished a work program to get a decent job. He's filing taxes, working, coming home and being a productive citizen so, what if he's not spilling 10grand bottles of liquor over breast implants!? I think people in the black community really need to start focusing more on what's "right" about doing the "right" thing instead of what's "cool". Strong minded people are able to do the right thing even when it isn't the popular thing. He ran out of money and needed a job so, he got one now MTO amongst othe dumb sites had to talk *** about him! Pleeeeease people wisen up. If more black men did this we wouldn't have so many of the following:
fatherless kids Single mothers Kids dropping out of school welfare families violence in schools kids being tried as adults and...lastly not least.... Black kids dropping out of high school.
Studies show that kids who are in homes with two parents are less likely to do the above kids. Most black kids grow up with just a mother and why, because SOME not ALL but SOME black men are too busy trying to be cool.
