Rent-A-Cop Turned Thug Rapper Aired Out by Smokinggun

After weeks of denying he was once employed as a prison guard TheSmokingGun.com yesterday posted a report detailing the life of William Leonard Roberts before he started recording over-the-top albums about his many years trafficking narcotics.

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Mr. Roberts, who goes by the fake drug lord rap alias, Rick Ross, had steadfastly denied allegations by fellow Miami rapper Trick Daddy that he was once a corrections officer, but records from Florida’s Department of Corrections tell a different story. According to documents provided by D.O.C. spokesperson Jo Ellyn Rackleff, the D.O.C. employed Mr. Roberts for a period of 18 months, from December 1995 to June 1997, during which time he earned approximately $25,000 per year.

While there’s nothing wrong with being a corrections officer or a former corrections officer-turner rapper, hip-hop fans, who are notoriously fickle about artists’ credibility, may take issue with Mr. Roberts’ lying about his past and more importantly his grandiose claims of being a drug dealer.

TheSmokingGun seem to be on a mission to verify the backgrounds of hip-hop super villains. In April they ran an article exposing signer Akon’s none existent criminal-mastermind past. The signer had claimed he was the ringleader behind a car-theft ring. The claim, according to court papers, appears to be untrue.

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