What's good America. For all you hip hop fans I'm sure you have heard the ruckus about Rick Ross' past. Rick Ross is known for his gritty, drug related material all throughout his music. This is the same guy that said the notorious drug kingpin Pablo Noreiaga owes him favors, he can't survive on anything less than 10 million a year and he was rich before he entered the rap game. In a nut shell, a couple weeks back photos of him as a correctional officer surfaced directly challenging his "street cred" and he vehemently denied. His reply to the photos were:
"My life is 100% real. These online hackers putting a picture of my face when I was a teenager in high school on other peoples' body. If this s**t was real don't you think they would have more specifics, like dates and everything?"
Days later TheSmokingGun.com match the social security numbers, supply photo negatives (people still have negatives?!), listed his academy graduation date, tenure on the job (1995 to 1997, he was 19 when he started), income AND confirmed the identity of the woman in the photo. Rick Ross denies it again and blames it on the competition:
"Competitors have to do what they have to do to eat. We making the best music. Y'all seen the BET Awards, y'all saw the magazine. We the biggest in the game, we the best in the game. Just keeping it real. And anytime somebody can attack my character, like I said, you get nothing from the Boss. I don't give haters the pleasure."
With all this being said it all comes back to one thing and one thing only... WHY DOES THIS MATTER? Are you telling me that a young black man is crucified for having a DAMN JOB?! Hip hop is marketed to urban youth and this is the message that you are trying to portray? I like Rick Ross but damn, your occupational history is not going to make me enjoy your music any more or less. I mean... Keep it real, B if you were a C.O. who really gives a damn? First off, a person's persona does not and should not define his or her talent by any means. There are alot of artisits who's street cred is full proof and that DOES NOT make them a good rapper. There are rappers with no street cred and still suck too but that's another story. On the other side just because he was a corrections officer it doesn't mean that he still wasn't doing the things that he spoke of in his music but once again does that really matter? Last but not least, don't lie about the shit, own up to it!! Say Rick Ross admitted to being a C.O. in the first place the whole story would've been null and void and he would've never had to pay attention to the bull shit people perpetuate. This is just another example that the hip hop crowd needs to lighten up... sheesh. Y'all let two grown men kiss each other in the mouth (Baby & Lil Wayne) and a man's job is an issue? There is still a war in Iraq, a presidential election right around the corner and gas prices are so high it's hard to afford a cd about person rapping about drugs (or being a correctional officer, lol)
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