I just read that Rick Ross, the hustling, weight-dealing, Dade-County-living lyricist was employed as a Florida Department of Corrections Officer for 18 months (courtesy of The Smoking Gun - listed on The Daily Swarm), resigning from the $25,794.34/year position in June of 1997. In response to this, Ricky Ross (read: William Leonard Roberts) said that he was a victim of "online hackers" who manipulated photos to make it look like he was shaking some caucasian broad's hand while graduating from DoC training, despite the fact that he has the same name, SS#, and primary relatives as this guy pictured above. State-of-the-art time lapse photo algorithms were used to showcase William Leonard Roberts' transformation into Ricky Ross, as depicted in the bottom image.
I'm not going to break Rick's balls too much, though (plenty of people already are - one quote: "I can't believe this ***** mane. Now I'm a real ***** from da MIA. I thought this ***** looked familiar. He was da ***** tellin' me lights out when I was down in 95. Ya CD is now a frisbee cuz.") Regardless of whether he's telling you to turn your lights out or rapping about the weight sitting in the trunk of his white-on-white 745, Rick Ross/William Leonard Roberts is a "boss" solely in his own mind. With that being said, who's the REAL boss? At this point in time, Tony Danza is probably the most qualified person out there*.
For the rest of you, don't pretend to be something you're not. Just be who you are. That's what's really cool (name the movie).
But seriously......
fuck Rick Ross.
*TanManLan, 7/2008
