Talk:Rick Ross

Songs of OFFICER Rick Ross

What are some of the songs by Rick Ross, that he disses the police and he talks about drugs. RICK ROSS TAKES IT UP THE ASS HARD CORE

== Rick Ross =(officer ricky).c.o.... is there a source where rick ross admits that he is an officer.--Coolhvh (talk) 20:51, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

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DEPUTY Rick Ross (rapper) → OFFICER Rick Rossyyyyyyy – {most people think of the rapper when they hear “ C.O. Rick Ross” M. Burmy

• Support Rap is more popular than consultantism [[User:M. Burmy|M. Burmy]]

Not moved, as this does not have clear primacy over the consultant. —Nightstallion (?) 07:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Umm you might want to move it... because the rapper definitely has more prominence in today's culture especially for people who might use this site than the cult consultant. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.11.110.112 (talk) 18:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC).

• Strongly Oppose Everyone knows him as Rick Ross media outlets refer to him as Rick Ross! Jay-Z is still Jay-Z--143.81.248.53 (talk) 09:18, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

and his momma suck dick — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.110.248.61 (talk) 15:10, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

This article is not non-POV

The material at the bottom is probably commercially derived hype -- it needs to be changed so it's not so oriented toward selling Rick Ross records. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrewrowe (talk • contribs) 18:22, May 20, 2006

I assume you meant that the article isn't written in NPOV (which I agree with). Phrases like "His use of rhetorical devices in his songs reveals his mastery of the english language" need to be removed. Qutorial 02:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

he said, i feed em steroids to strengthen up my ChiCkens, what the hell does that mean. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.18.139 (talk • contribs) 14:01, May 4, 2006

Also remember that as he explicitly states, Rick Ross " aint bout no funny sh*t, still bit**es and bizness". There is no need for this so I removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.135.164.170 (talk • contribs) 14:56, May 27, 2006

Weasel words, Professionalism

This article has weasel words that need to be removed, or sourced.

"as he is often compared to some of rap's most influential figures, and is considered a lyrical genius by residents of Dade-County" and "Phrases like "This is not surprising" and "for his use of weaker rhymes" should be reworded to sound more professional. It currently sounds as if the article is taking a stance on "rhyme strength," and unless someone can come up with a good reason for "This is not surprising" being there, I am going to merge the two sentences and remove the offending statement. Qutorial 02:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC) I don't think the phrase "Ross started out taking big ole black ones in the rear, he called the men in prison birds, because they would all flock to his caboose like condors" is very professional. It might be appropriate for lyrics but not an encyclopedia. Emmaskis (talk) 00:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC) how can i meet you in person because i am your biggest fan of all time. Sweet, I have a fan? Who are you? Emmaskis (talk) 20:56, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

rick ross diagnosed with cancer today?

what is this about rick ross and cancer? is that confirmed, or is this someone's idea of a joke? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.137.253.9 (talk • contribs) 17:29, August 24, 2006

this page is almost constantly vandalized. it still says he was born in Flushing, NY, which is untrue. also, I have no idea who taylor turetsky is, but I believe that is a silly vandalism as well. 24.90.225.169 00:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Subtle?

"In this song, Busta Rhymes makes several effective, yet subtle, references to cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, hinting at a possible trafficking network between himself and Escobar's children."

I can only assume this is meant as sarcasm. I think subtle should be changed blatant and repetitive. I don't think sarcasm is appropiate for an encylopedia article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevehrowe2 (talk • contribs) 18:27, August 27, 2006

== The Real Rick Ross? ==The JERK

Rick Ross the rapper is taking the life of the Real Rick Ross that is serving a life sentence for everything the "rapper" Rick Ross is trying to say he did. The Real Rick Ross is from South Central LA. The REAL rick ross had the same look as the "rapper." Let's not support fake people, please.

Read Below:

"FREEWAY" RICK ROSS

AGE: 36

NATIONALITY: American PERSONAL: Grew up poor in Troup, Texas, and then moved to South-Central L.A., where his mother and family still live. Dropped out of Dorsey High School in his senior year. Dropped out of L.A. Trade-Tech to take up cocaine dealing. Has seven children by four different women. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Metropolitan Correctional Center, San Diego, where he has been held without bond since March 1995. POLITICAL: No political involvement or interests. PROFESSIONAL: Successful cocaine trafficker since he was 19. Bought massive amounts of real estate, including hotels and several businesses. By 1987, had one of the largest crack cocaine distribution networks in the country, selling in California, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio, Missouri and Indiana. CRIMINAL: Arrested on auto theft charges in 1979. Convicted of cocaine charges in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1991 and sentenced to 10 years. His sentence was cut in half after he agreed to testify against L.A. narcotics agents accused of corruption. Also served eight months on a Texas narcotics charge in 1994. Arrested as part of a DEA sting in 1995 … a sting his old supplier, Danilo Blandon, helped arrange. Convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in March 1996; sentencing scheduled for Aug. 23. QUOTE: "You know how some people feel that God put them down here to be a preacher? I felt that He had put me down to be the cocaine man. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.2.246.32 (talk • contribs) 15:24, September 5, 2006

too bad this article is about the emcee, not some piece of crap drug dealing entrepreneur. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.5.79 (talk • contribs) 12:52, September 8, 2006

Yeah man he just took the alias because he could identify with the dilemma of either selling drugs or dying young... No error

This article is about a piece of crap emcee that's posing as a drug dealing entrepreneur. Neither the rapper nor former drug dealer died young, so there's no way he could identify with dying young. I read a few places on the net, I forgot where, that the real Rick Ross also rapped, but I couldn't find any recordings of his :(

Rick Ross is hard please stop badmouthing him.. if you dont like his shit than dont read it its not too difficult do you really think he cares what people think of him no.. you should be a little more concerned about all these panzy ass bands that steal even more well known names

You wasted your time to type that or copy paste, so why don't you just create a wiki page for the real one and cite some of that on rapper rick ross page.--143.81.248.53 (talk) 09:19, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

influences

in the credits of his album Rick Ross clearly stats that JT money is one of his influences I am gonna place that here since he said that in his album.

Btw why are all the T.I. fans keep on vandalising this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.40.87.122 (talk • contribs) 18:00, October 2, 2006

Record Sales

Removed the U.S. record sales for his special edition album (not sure that'll be out there), that stated it went out to sell more than 289 million units. No need to say how retarded that is... User:Kajito

Ok i took of the part where it says 8 times diamond on the account of thats 80 million albums and no one has ever sold that much im not even sure if his album has even went gold yet

Sources

Most of the text is taken word by word from his biography on AOL Music http://music.aol.com/artist/rick-ross/736150/biography?albumid=0 without even mentioning it as a source. That should be changed.

I think the ref to zoe pound should be removed. To associate someone with a particular gang without sources is bad practice. 143.207.8.4 12:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

The Street Catalog: Official Mixtape

this album The Street Catalog: Official Mixtape is stated in rick ross' artist chart history on billboard.com but its not mentiond here

does anyone have info on this

Jimmypop1994 02:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Age?

Why has his name been changed back and forth so many times from 30 to 33 back to 30?  Taylor21  01:03, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Album Confusion

Which one is his second album? Is it Rise To Power or Trilla, as Rise To Power is not in his discography, and not to mention the fact that it sometimes states Trilla is his third, and sometimes his second. If he released Rise To Power in September, he is going to release Trilla in November, 2 months later? Seems a little soon... could somebody straighten this out? I needa change

Rise to Power is a collection of older material that was released last month. Eli lilly 19:25, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

==Early Life== OFFICER RICKEY I believe he was a corrections officer, also mediatakeout provided pics.Media Take Out Article on Rick Ross being corrections officer.--143.81.248.53 (talk) 05:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Smokinggun has the documents proving he was an officer http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0721081rickross1.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.116.35.254 (talk) 21:20, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obkR1S2ej-k this youtube video has the photos in question along with negatives of the photos in question —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.70.228.218 (talk) 00:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Corrections officer?Yes BOSS BOSS! TRILLA! TRIPLE C'S

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0721081rickross1.html

i think i addressed the corrections officer controversy NPOV. there is more info to be added, i am sure. Theserialcomma (talk) 16:44, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

The header title seems a bit long. How about removing the word "Controversy"? Meanwhile, the Foxy Brown rumors can be moved w/in the music section given that Brown's also a rapper.--Andrewlp1991 (talk) 04:39, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

OK, I think it's too POV to make a whole new header out of a minor incident in Ross' life, so this should be merged w/in the main bio. --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 04:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

put a pic on please and semi block it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steogden (talk • contribs) 12:58, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

idea

put a new pic on please and can you semi block it or watever its called so no one messes it up —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steogden (talk • contribs) 12:59, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

OFFICER RICKY

Can someone fix that link? 69.76.134.4 (talk) 01:54, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I removed it because it was messed up. If someone wants to add it back correctly that's cool. 69.76.134.4 (talk) 02:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

50 Cent controversy?

50 Cent recently came out with a few videos where he reveals Rick Ross's history and interviews the mother of Rick Ross's children before buying her a fur coat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.180.172 (talk) 02:14, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Feud with 50 Cent also leaving slip n slide

Why is there no mention of this feud on his page when it is mentioned on 50 cent's page? Everytime someone adds this information it gets deleted. Dumaka (talk) 19:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmmm. I think there are a few innacuracies in this article.

I stopped by this page to check the going-on in Ross's career, and was a little amused to find that the page appears to have been vandalized pretty heavily. For example, I think the mention of an outstanding lease on a 1995 Chevrolet Tahoe could be a fabrication, and at the very least cites no sources. I thought I would help by making a few edits in favor of fact, but was dismayed when I discovered that I couldn't correct the information due to its locked status. To my understanding, a tenet of the philosophy behind Wikipedia is that, given the ease by which everyone can contribute, the articles would tend toward the truth and vandals discouraged because their falsehoods could be immediately corrected. In this case, someone who wanted to make a correction was discouraged from doing so.

Rick Ross may have been a correctional officer at one point, and suffered negative impact to his street cred as a result, but someone needs to remove the obvious bias from this article.

Perkywarrior (talk) 19:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Perkywarrior (talk • contribs) 19:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

This page is vandalized to the nth degree

This is hilarious though - the FBI pic, the officer ricky, being retired because of 50's 'pressure'. LOL. Gotta give it to these vandals, they have imagination :). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.62.79 (talk) 21:41, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

They have the imagination to realize his last single got to 96 on the charts even with Kanye, Jeezy and T-Pain on it... and that his album in two months sold less than half of 'Relapse' in it's first week, and that he is a fat stupid freak who has to have famous guests on every single song practically to get any attention... --216.17.75.89 (talk) 16:44, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Let it be Known

Spreading the truth is not considered hating. The truth must be known in order for people to be informed. Stop deleting the truth from this page. If it's truth and has a reference there is no reason for it to be deleted. Dumaka (talk) 14:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Label

Can someone delete Slip N Ride Records & Suave House from Ross' Labels? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.94.122 (talk) 10:24, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Controversy section

Now I notice that all the controversial material about Ross (including the corrections officer photos) has been forked out into a controversy section, something that deceptively circumvents NPOV. I'd like such details to be merged within a main "personal life" section instead if they're relevant to it. --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 21:55, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

I changed it to reflect his life instead of controversy. Dumaka (talk) 12:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Cool! That should be a bit more neutral. --Andrewlp1991 (talk) 00:28, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Single from Teflon Don - "Live Fast, Die Young"

According to Bloginity.com (http://www.bloginity.com/entertainment/music-entertainment/kanye-west-rick-ross-record-music-in-hawaii/24501/), Ross recently recorded a song titled "Live Fast, Die Young" in Hawaii with Kanye West. The track may be the first single off of Teflon Don. Ross said it was "one of the best recording experiences of my career" and that the track "will keep you on that dance floor. Bloginity.com also quotes Ross as saying that "it's a phenomenal record" and "I'm just extremely excited." In adittion to West, Teflon Don will feature Drake, Jay-Z, Cee-Lo and No-I.D. The article suggests that the two may have also worked on West's upcoming release, Good Ass Job, but Ross declined to reveal details about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.180.194.123 (talk) 14:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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ricky rozay redirect

hes used the name in his songs (not on the artwork) but he often says it in his songs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.56.162.236 (talk) 13:25, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Youngsevon, 22 March 2011

{{edit semi-protected}} The only thing that needs to be changed on the Rick Ross page is change "God Forgives, I Don't" to "$elf Made". Rick Ross stated it in the RetroSuperFuture II Music Video ft. Wiz Khalifa and Wale.

Youngsevon (talk) 15:20, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — Bility (talk) 17:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Rick Ross signed Meek Mill and Wale to Maybach Music in January 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joetorrisi (talk • contribs) 11:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from newyorkbrass

A new single has been released. [1] .Brass was perfomed live by NewYorkBrass's [newyorkbrass.com] Danny Flam Jeremy Miloszewicz. Pictures of the session are here [2] --Dflam (talk) 04:15, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

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Rick Ross (rapper) → Rick Ross – Primary topic. Page views: counselor 2,301, rapper 282,448. There are several partial title matches listed at Richard Ross (disambiguation). Marcus Qwertyus 03:09, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

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