Ross later moved to the Miami-based record label Slip-N-Slide, which released music by hip-hop favorites like Trick Daddy - whom Ross would later tour with - and female rapper Trina. Ironically, Ross worked as a corrections officer in Florida for almost two years (something he initially denied when it was revealed, but later accepted), but the lure of hip-hop music and the lavish lifestyle of the drug dealers he saw throughout his youth led him in another direction.īefore adopting the Rick Ross persona, he’d made his debut on former EPMD member Erick Sermon’s 2000 compilation Def Squad Presents Erick Sermon, appearing as Tephlon on a track called "Ain’t Shhh to Discuss." He was eventually signed to an independent Southern rap label, Suave House Records, whose acts also included the popular underground duo 8Ball & MJG. He took his performing name from stories he heard of a drug trafficker named "Freeway" Rick Ross.
Although he attended Georgia's Albany State University on a football scholarship for a year, Ross started writing rap lyrics that romanticized drug dealing, an act that he saw as a child. Raised in Carol City, Florida - an impoverished area of north of Miami - Ross gravitated to the music of street-oriented rappers like Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Luther Campbell and Ice Cube. Ross was born William Leonard Roberts II in Coahoma County, Mississippi, on January 28, 1976. While a controversial figure, Ross is held in high esteem within the music industry, signing deals with P.
He remains a prolific artist, both as a solo performer and as a guest, and his Maybach Music Group has put out albums by artists including Wale, Meek Mill, French Montana and Teedra Moses. He's had his fair share of legal tussles, as well as the obligatory rap beef (with 50 Cent). Rick Ross is a rapper and label boss from Mississippi who has received Grammy nominations but also had his background called into question.
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