Various rappers recently gave their opinion to MTVon what they think about Miami rapper Rick Ross being a correctional officer in the past.
As reported earlier, a picture showing Ross dressed as a prison guard had been circulating the internet and Ross repeatedly denied being a prison guard and claimed that the picture was photoshopped.
Earlier this week, TheSmokingGun.com would release corrections records proving that Ross (born William Leonard Roberts) worked as a prison guard from 1995 to 1997.
“The thing I wish is he came clean, if in fact that is him [in the photos].Cause you ain’t gotta make no excuses for whatever you did, Malice of The Clipse told MTV. “You might have thought differently at one point in time. I don’t think that should discredit that man.
“I’m not even going to go that far into it, “said Mal’s brother, Pusha T. “I don’t know what it’s gonna do to him, what it can or what it should d o to him. I know the hip-hop community has given passes for much [worse].
“I don’t know if it will really hurt him, Fabolous said. “As an artist, I think Rick Ross makes great music. He’s always shown me love and respect whenever I met him. Everybody has a past. I don’t know if [being a prison guard] is his past or not. That’s not my place to say. I think if he continues to do what he does, sweep all that garbage under the rug you know what? That’s success. That’s success taking a shot back at him. All of a sudden past pictures come up. He should just keep doing what he do.
“He’s a great dude. He’s my friend, Fat Joe said. “We’ll just wait to see what [else] he has to say about it.
“I’m disappointed, Brooklyn rapper Maino said. “I’m really disappointed. I pride myself on being 100 percent who I am. If I went to college and had a job before, I would just say that. … Him, in my opinion, I just think he should have just addressed it. … ‘Look, man. I was 19. It was a part of my life. … I got to the coke later.’
“I don’t have a problem with what he was doing before the rap game, added Maino. “That ain’t my beef with him. The thing is, he was denying he was doing it. He said [the pictures] was Photoshopped and wasn’t real.
source: sixshot.com