Miami Herald:Who is Rick Ross? Shoot-’em-up raises new questions...

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Morgan said Ross had bigger dreams. He and Morgan had long envied the prestige and cash that the drug dealers were earning on the streets of Carol City, so they began to drift on the other side of the law. Ross changed his appearance, covering himself in tattoos, growing a scruffy beard and flaunting a new streetwise, dangerous persona.

Morgan ended up serving time in jail for drug dealing, but Ross, whose fourth album was titled Teflon Don, seemed to avoid anything more serious than a couple of arrests for marijuana.

Morgan, who now works at a Publix warehouse, was with Ross at his birthday bash at LIV club in the Fontainebleau Sunday. He said he spoke with Ross on Thursday, but they didn’t talk about the shooting.

“He’s pretty much seen what I’d seen growing up,’’ Morgan said. “We would be playing outside and seeing drugs and other bad stuff.’’

Rapping about that “bad stuff” made Ross rich. He claims to have earned $40 million.

Frazier said he was shocked when he learned who “Ross” was. He happened to see him on television and was taken aback by some of the language in his music.

When he saw Ross a few years later, the rapper told him, “Hey coach, I have to make a dollar.’’

“I guess you have to do what you have to do to be popular and sell records,’’ Frazier said.

But he praised Ross for remembering where he came from by supporting the school and its football program. At one appearance in Carol City, he warned young kids who look up to him against being fixated on the money and fast life he portrays.

Florida rapper Haitian Fresh, who has known Ross for years and has worked with him, called him “a perfect example of an artist that has never given up. He’s constantly reinventing himself and went against all odds.”

Fresh dismissed talk of Ross’s middle class upbringing and past as “he-say, she-say” speculation.

“The only person who knows Rick Ross is Rick Ross,” he said.

 

[mc317]

Rick Ross is a CIA agent lol

 

[TB.Boy]

I think we as a culture arent asking ourselves the right question as a result of the Rick Ross nonsense. What is there to be said about a culture that will support people like this when kids are dying really living this life and all he can say is "hey coach i gotta make a dollar" really bro really....

 

[A1000MILES]

This article actually backs up the life that his fans already know about...He's talked about all this shit in his music and on his interviews...The shit een says he started dealing after he left the CO position...

 

[zone456]

Sounds like the background of the typical rapper. While hip hop is built around keeping it real, rappers really keep it fictional

 

[ocelot]

This article actually backs up the life that his fans already know about...He's talked about all this shit in his music and on his interviews...The shit een says he started dealing after he left the CO position...

Weed nigga? I doubt he sold coke but if he did probably nicks and dimes...

 

[A1000MILES]

Iono nobody that truly believes he knows Noriega...But it's not far fetched for me to believe he sold cocaine as a drug dealer in Miami...Miami...

 

[qtipp73]

as much as it kills me to say it. rick ross is THE ONLY REASON THE SOUTH HAS BEEN ON TOP

the dude most likely exaggerated some of his life but he prob did move coke in miami. it aint hard

 

[blackamerica]

Somewhere down the line he linked up with dem zoe pound niggaz. My guess is he looked out for them while being a CO. I still wanna know who in Zoe cosigned this nigga

 

[A1000MILES]

Somewhere down the line he linked up with dem zoe pound niggaz. My guess is he looked out for them while being a CO. I still wanna know who in Zoe cosigned this nigga

He was also loosely tied to Boobie Williams...These are facts, but niggas don't care...

 

[Brian B.]

This article actually backs up the life that his fans already know about...He's talked about all this shit in his music and on his interviews...The shit een says he started dealing after he left the CO position...

Well, it didn't say he started dealing jus "drifted to the other side of the law"

& for all we know that could mean he went back to shoplifting or dining & ditching or somethin lol

 

[BlackAX410]

lol Ross is such a cornball man good to see his lies are comin back to bite him

 

[MeekMonizzLLLLLLe14]

the only way ross sold coke is if he was specially assigned to the dade county area for ronald regans top secret bring crack to the hood program

 

[kzzl]

SMH at making 25k a year. Can't say I blame him for making that career change.

 

[jono]

Everybody who saw that nigga in Trina video wearing a too small jersey already knew he was fake.

 

[A1000MILES]

Everybody who saw that nigga in Trina video wearing a too small jersey already knew he was fake.

He was fake cause he was a Slip N Slide artist...?

 

[$tayRichROLLIN]

Damn Ross everyone is exposing him. But 99 percent of rappers exaggerate greatly in There music. The most grimy niccas don't make it out the hood so they can make it and if they do they can't handle the stardom . North east south or west rappers lie .

 

[A1000MILES]

Nothing was exposed in this article, though...

 

[a_list]

Ross put up a great facade....low to mid level drug dealers turned rappers always morph into kingpins this is nothing new....

 

[aladdin1978]

As much as I would have liked to read this article...