Influenced by: Ice Cube, The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac
Genre: Hip-Hop
Biography: Tattooed with pictures of AK-47s, Miami's six-foot, 300-pound rap figure known as Rick Ross embraced his city's reputation ...
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Aug 11 2008 14:30PM
by Tracey Ford
Filed under: Say What!
The Boombox Music Blog: A member of Rick Ross' entourage attacks DJ Vlad? ... [Def Sounds]Kanye West and No. I.D. working on Jay-Z's 'Blueprint 3' ... [Billboard]KRS-One and EPMD to headline Black August concert ... [Singersroom]Dr. Dre's daughter to release controversial... Read moreJul 22 2008 14:30PM
by Tracey Ford
Filed under: Say What!
The Boombox Music Blog: The Smoking Gun found proof that confirms that Rick Ross did in fact work for the Department of Corrections, but we're still not sure we care either way ... [The Smoking Gun]Have Nelly and English soul singer Joss Stone been secretly dating? ...... Read moreJul 17 2008 8:30AM
by Tracey Ford
Filed under: Hip-Hop News
The Boombox Music Blog: When rumors began to circulate that Rick Ross was a correctional officer before selling over a million records, we here at the BoomBox thought: "So what?" And we thought our favorite tattooed, round belly rapper would ignore the weird, baseless... Read more
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07/22/08
Say What! -- Rick Ross Caught in a Lie? + More
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07/17/08
Rick Ross Calls Trick Daddy a 'Sucker' And we thought our favorite tattooed, round belly...
The Boombox
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07/03/08
Shawty Lo Feat. DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Baby and Jim Jones, 'Foolish (Remix)' -- New Video
The Boombox
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06/24/08
Rick Ross Feels the Love for Birdman, Gets Love From BET For some artists, performing at...
The Boombox
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08/15/08
DJ Vlad Files $4 Million Lawsuit Against Rick Ross Over Alleged Ozone Awards Beatdown Ac...
VH1
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08/12/08
Rick Ross, T-Pain, Big Boi, David Banner Rock Ozone Awards In Houston Despite Pre-Show Scuffle
VH1
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08/10/08
Rick Ross, DJ Khaled Kick Off Ozone Awards Festivities, In You Are Here As the parties s...
MTV
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08/07/08
Rick Ross Downplays Shooting, Emphasizes Positivity Seeking to end much of the media spe...
AllHipHop.com
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08/07/08
Rick Ross Day Disrupted By Shooting A charity event launched by rapper Rick Ross in his ...
Starpulse
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08/07/08
Rick Ross Charity Event For Children Disrupted By Nearby Shooting rapper to raise money ...
VH1
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08/06/08
BREAKING NEWS: Rick Ross Day Halted By Gunfire The Second Annual Rick Ross Be Out Day wa...
AllHipHop.com
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08/05/08
Akon, Ludacris Say Rick Ross Should Brush Off Rumors Of Prison-Guard Past If there is an...
VH1
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08/05/08
Hip-Hop Rumors: Bill O'Reilly Marries Flavor Flav's Ex? The Rick Ross Movie! The Underground Queenz are HERE!
AllHipHop.com
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08/03/08
Rick Ross Says Lyrics Are Authenic; Squashes Trick/Plies Beef In the face of an extensiv...
AllHipHop.com
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08/01/08
Freeway Ricky Ross: Name Check It can be haphazardly given, a carefully contemplated nom...
AllHipHop.com
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07/31/08
Hip-Hop Rumors: The Rick Ross Haircut! A Nas/Kelis Album? Buck And 50 Working "It" Out?
AllHipHop.com
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07/30/08
Rick Ross: 'The Boss' Denies Prison Guard Past His music career has been built on the im...
NPR
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07/30/08
Charles Cosby: Cocaine Cowboy's Griselda Blanco's Million Dollar Man Part 1 The film chr...
AllHipHop.com
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07/30/08
Rick Ross Repeats Himself Ross also said that the discussions about his past amongst the...
Vibe
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07/29/08
Trick Daddy Denies Beef With Rick Ross, Says He's Not Responsible For Prison-Guard Rumors
VH1
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07/28/08
Rick Ross Addresses C.O. Allegations Hip-Hop star Rick Ross has hit back at recent repor...
AllHipHop.com
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07/28/08
Rick Ross's Jail Time JULY 28--We don't mean to pile on the beleaguered gangster rapper ...
The Smoking Gun
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07/27/08
Trick Daddy Denies Leaking Rick Ross Photos After weeks of speculation, Trick Daddy has ...
AllHipHop.com
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07/25/08
EXCLUSIVE: Ricky Ross Speaks On Rapper Rick Ross Incarcerated former drug kingpin "Freew...
AllHipHop.com
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07/25/08
Fabolous, Clipse, Maino Weigh In On How Rick Ross' Alleged Prison-Guard Past Might Affect His Career
MTV
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07/24/08
Rick Ross feat. Trey Songz: "This Is The Life" The new video from GCH featuring Busta Rh...
Vibe
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07/22/08
Since I Got Famous...Rick Ross When VIBE sat down with Rick Ross for the August "Real Ra...
Vibe
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07/22/08
Rick Ross Reaffirms Gangster Past In New Freestyle, Despite 'Smoking Gun' Report That He Worked As Prison Guard
MTV
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07/22/08
Hip-Hop Rumors: Police After Jim Jones? Pharrell Having A Baby? Was Rick Ross Set up? Al...
AllHipHop.com
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07/21/08
Screw Rick Ross JULY 21--Apparently desperate to distance himself from any affiliation w...
The Smoking Gun
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07/21/08
Hip-Hop Rumors: More Attacks On Rick Ross' Gangsta! Wu Tang Digital Attacks 50 Cent! Al...
AllHipHop.com
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07/19/08
Trick Daddy, Rick Ross Celebrate Miami Miami rap stars Trick Daddy and Rick Ross will be...
AllHipHop.com
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07/15/08
Rick Ross Was Never a Cop In related news, Ross is currently working on his third LP, De...
Vibe
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07/14/08
Exclusive: Rick Ross Denies Ex-Correctional Officer Claims Rick Ross has charged that im...
AllHipHop.com
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08/15/08
DJ Vlad Sues Rick Ross for Beatdown DJ Vlad is suing Rick Ross for the widely documented...
ProHipHop
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08/09/08
Rick Ross: Baby Pooper? Rapper Rick Ross -- aka William Leonard Roberts, Jr., aka allege...
TMZ
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08/07/08
Rick Ross, Lil’ Kim Parties End in Violence A pair of rappers both hosted ill-fated part...
Rock and Roll Daily
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08/07/08
Rick Ross Day Disrupted By Shooting A charity event launched by rapper Rick Ross in his ...
Starpulse News Blog
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08/07/08
Miami's second annual Rick Ross Be Out Day, ... [Guns N' Rosses] Miami's second annual R...
Idolator
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07/31/08
Ear To The Street: Rick Ross and Flo-Rida at Celebrity Theater While the openers were go...
Ear Infection
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07/29/08
More Evidence Proving Rick Ross’ Corrections Officer Past Uncovered Despite evidence unc...
Rock and Roll Daily
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07/28/08
Rick Ross' Paper Trail: Complete ProHipHop Coverage ProHipHop's building up a collection...
ProHipHop
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07/28/08
Department Of Corrections Appreciates Cocaine Rapper [Rick Ross] When you're a big time ...
Gawker
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07/28/08
Smoking Gun Has Rick Ross' Employee Records The Smoking Gun has 20 pages of documents fr...
ProHipHop
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07/25/08
Comment of the Week: Rick Ross’ Secret Past "The Smoking Gun failed to come up with some...
Rock and Roll Daily
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07/25/08
Rick Ross Photoshops & Why This Ain't Like Akon The very fact that Rick Ross can be so e...
ProHipHop
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07/24/08
Rick Ross “This Is The Life” Music Video "This Is The Life:" The latest effort from hip-...
Hip Hop PopCrunch
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07/23/08
Tough Hard Rapper Rick Ross Deeply Regrets Responsible Past Rappers are often strong, bo...
Hecklerspray
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07/22/08
Say What! -- Rick Ross Caught in a Lie? + More
The Boombox
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07/22/08
Was Rick Ross A Prison Guard? Does Anyone Care? [Every Day Off, He's Hustlin'] Rick Ros...
Idolator
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07/22/08
Report: Rick Ross Worked as a Florida Corrections Officer The Smoking Gun has once again...
Rock and Roll Daily
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07/22/08
Heartfelt Responses to That Ricky Ross Situation I don't have that much to say about Ric...
ProHipHop
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07/22/08
Papers Confirm Rick Ross' Time As Prison Guard Payroll documents purporting to prove rap...
Starpulse News Blog
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07/21/08
Rick Ross Correctional Officer Court Documents Despite vehemently denying any affiliatio...
Hip Hop PopCrunch
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07/21/08
Smoking Gun: Rick Ross = Former Corrections Officer According to The Smoking Gun, the re...
ProHipHop
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07/17/08
Rick Ross Calls Trick Daddy a 'Sucker' And we thought our favorite tattooed, round belly...
The Boombox
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07/15/08
Rick Ross Correctional Officer Picture Rick Ross has blasted an image depicting him as a...
Hip Hop PopCrunch
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07/03/08
Shawty Lo Feat. DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Baby and Jim Jones, 'Foolish (Remix)' -- New Video
The Boombox
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06/24/08
Rick Ross Feels the Love for Birdman, Gets Love From BET For some artists, performing at...
The Boombox
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06/24/08
News Ticker: Timbaland, Rick Ross and Kings of Leon Timbaland was named Songwriter of th...
Rock and Roll Daily
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06/09/08
Foxy Brown Is Dating Rick Ross Foxy Brown has fallen for fellow rapper Rick Ross after t...
Starpulse News Blog
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06/04/08
Def Jam To Replace Jay-Z With Evil, Evil Man Who Signed Rick Ross [Meet The New Boss] Wh...
Idolator
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05/26/08
Rick Ross Plays Down Tiger Attack Rapper Rick Ross has downplayed a tiger attack on an a...
Starpulse News Blog
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