There Is Now Incontrovertable Evidence That Rapper Rick Ross Was A Correction Officer

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."

smh

i think its a shame when the industry gets to the point where everyone has 2 b so hard that they go through the lengths 2 fabricate their own personal history 2 maintain a fabricated image.

its sad...every1 says the game needs 2 change but no matter what its so fucked up that it willl NEVER be what it used to be...

but it shouldnt matter what lifestyle the artist lived....their music should matter


shame on rick ross....shame on the game...and most importantly shame on us....the people that even follow this bullshit [not me tho lol =)]

^ Exactly. I mean, it's good that he decided to serve his community by becoming a Prison Guard. There is nothing wrong with that.

If he's ashamed of his past, then he probably reconsider the rhymes that he puts out.

Besides, he could have made this discovery work for him. Instead of denying it, he could have just said that he did it to smuggle in Cocaine for his buddies. That would follow the very essence of what he claims in his songs. :)

Case solved. Officer Ross just made Detective.

yea...aint nuttin wrong wit bein a CO....its definatley somethin wrong wit bein a LIAR though

wtf? why would you deny somethin like this as if it was gonna ruin your career.

i agree with ghetto, its a shame how to succeed nowdays you have to make up some phoney past about bein a crook.

the problem is he talks about a lifestyle he doesn't live

the problem is that if you want respect for who you are then talk about who you are and dont make up your life

i been saying he was that but nobody believed me...u believe me now?

no..... lmao jus kiddin ut yea.... no words for dis cat..

aw, now he's gonna have the same reputation as....

cosign


imo i dont see wats so cool about selling drugs and glorifying that lifestyle


but besides all that

LYING is not cool....especially when you lie about somethin that really doesnt matter..or wont make a difference either way


the way i see it....ross is a fag...and so is everyone else in the industry

Being a corrections officer is just a job I don't know why everybody buggin' out for. They make it seem as if he was DEA Agent.



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yeah this some bullshit, not only on rick ross but on the people bringin forth the claims

first off its stupid for smoking gun to make a big deal out of it, it was only 2 years. he ended that shit in 97 and started rapping in 2002, i want smoking gun to tell me what was going on then...

secondly, fuck is rick ross gonna deny the shit for? thats just stupid you did it you say it...

Anybody who's gonna call them selves Rick Ross in the rap game seems a bit funny.
I didn't believe the stuff he was talkin bout, but I still bumped the music coz it was dope.

Now Maybach Music doesn't have the same meaning lol.

who the fuck cares...if i like his music...which i kind of do...i'll still bump it regardless

i dont think it will hurt his career, but damn he is just like alot of the rappers out there, fake as hell when it comes to there lifestyle!!! im the biggest liar that u seen thus far!!!