Heard about this on "Wait... Wait... Don't Tell Me."
Is it news? Maybe not. But damned if it doesn't make me laugh, laugh, laugh.
Smoking Gun wrote:Smoking Gun reveals that Rick Ross was prison guard
Ricky Ross
Maybe it’s time for MCs to revisit a few old-school party rhymes. If not, The Smoking Gun Web site is around to keep those claiming hardcore, thug backgrounds as honest as Boy Scouts. For the second time this year, Smoking Gun has outed a performer who appears to have embellished his street credibility. Rick Ross had previously denounced photos that surfaced last week as “Photo Shop fakes created by fake people to entertain fake people.” But TSG reports that the pics, showing a younger, clean-shaven Ross in prison-guard gear, are authentic. The site indicates that William Leonard Roberts, aka “Rick Ross,” has a social security number and employee record matching those of a man who worked in corrections for 18 months in 1995. Ross reportedly earned $22, 913.54 a year. TSG previously blew singer Akon’s false claims of prison time and having master-minded an auto theft ring out of the water. Crime may not pay, but lying about it apparently does.
Well, at least he actually HAS spent time in prison, the way 90% of the newer artists actually haven't, yet brag about in their rap Just not quite in the way one would expect!
"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'
une wrote:For shame. He had a legitimate job that served a useful purpose in society. How will anyone respect him now
I like rap, sometimes, but this glorification of criminals has gone to far and really needs to stop.
If a "gangsta" rapper wanted to be respected, they should have chosen a different profession.
I meant the respect of his peers and fans of gangster rap. They won't respect him anymore now that it's been revealed that he doesn't have a criminal history. Which is pathetic beyond words.
une wrote:
I meant the respect of his peers and fans of gangster rap. They won't respect him anymore now that it's been revealed that he doesn't have a criminal history. Which is pathetic beyond words.
Because "gangsta rappers" are totally not willing to bend the truth or outright lie about their past if it helps their career *I'm a smarmy asshole*?
Of course none of his "fans" are likely going to learn from this and will still think that many of their "heroes" are legit. I can safely say my sympathy meter is at zero.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
Just not quite in the way one would expect!
