OFFICIAL - Rick Ross PROVEN to be a C.O. - RRT

mattybsoul · 07-22-2008, 10:38 AM

Despite denials, records show rap star worked as corrections officer

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 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). When a photo of a uniform-clad Ross surfaced last week on MediaTakeOut.com, the 32-year-old performer claimed 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."

CEO254 · 07-22-2008, 11:47 AM

LMAO @ these rappers getting exposed

Stax21 · 07-22-2008, 11:51 AM

This is what, the 100th Rick Ross thread I seen on here thus far.

Who cares, never will I see some niggas on here gossipin more than bitches

**ILL WILL** · 07-22-2008, 11:54 AM

they will never stop posting the SAME shit over and over........ whats worst you dumb niggas think it was a"real gangster/real nigga" who exposed him, no it was a jealous former coworker mad at his success ...... y'all blowing this out of proportion like this is the 1st time its ever been done...go find something else to do with your clearly extreme abundance of tie on your hands

Stax21 · 07-22-2008, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ILL WILL

they will never stop posting the SAME shit over and over........ whats worst you dumb niggas think it was a"real gangster/real nigga" who exposed him, no it was a jealous former coworker mad at his success ...... y'all blowing this out of proportion like this is the 1st time its ever been done...go find something else to do with your clearly extreme abundance of tie on your hands

Cosign homey

**williehutch** · 07-22-2008, 12:02 PM

poice and co is too different things and who fucking cares if he was a co
look at ice-t he made a song about killing cops know he play a cop on tv stop believe
this rappers it's just entertainment!!!

Titan0789 · 07-22-2008, 12:07 PM

Honestly, I don't care if he was a officer before he started rapping, he's got millions now. And besides Trick Daddy, Luke and Pitbull he's the voice of Miami.

INFAMOUS C · 07-22-2008, 12:56 PM

mayne no1 cares....half the rap game is fake niggas.ross is a good ass rapper so it doesn't matter

Fly One · 07-22-2008, 01:06 PM

Lmao.. nigga got exposed to the max. Lyingass nigga.. tryna rep the streets of 305, but yet, nigga prison guarding that bit..

lord nazeem · 07-22-2008, 01:46 PM

it does matter

because he denied it and its true which means he was ashamed...you know why...because it clears the smokescreen..now all you can do is laugh when you hear him rap about bein a boss and a d boy