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