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Ross began selling cocaine at $10,000 per kilo, a price well below average, while also distributing it to the Bloods and Crips street gangs. By 1982, Ross had received his moniker of "Freeway Ricky" and claimed to have sold up to US$3 million worth of cocaine per day, purchasing 1,000 pounds (454 kilos) of cocaine a week. [8]
In the mid-2000s, he changed his name to Rick Ross. He derived his stage name from the former drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross, to whom he has no connection. [15] After being signed to Suave House Records, former label for rap duo 8Ball & MJG, he eventually signed a deal with Slip-n-Slide Records, which has been under the Def Jam label since 2006.
Freeway was born Leslie Pridgen on August 6, 1978, in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He adopted his moniker from the name of the infamous drug trafficker "Freeway" Rick Ross as he found no one wanted to listen to a rapper named Leslie.
Despite owning iconic estates worth millions of dollars, Rick Ross knows how to save money when he can. In a new interview with Forbes, the 45-year-old rapper talks about his incredible real ...
Ross landed in jail after Blandon allegedly set him up, and was initially sentenced to life without parole in 1996. The Federal Court of Appeals later reduced Ross's sentence to 20 years. He was ...
Rick Ross performing in Los Angeles, California in June 2014, Elvis in Culver City, California in September 1962. What do Elvis Presley and Rick Ross have in common? A lot according to the rapper ...
Ross's case went before the federal court of appeals and his sentence was reduced to 20 years. He was later moved to a halfway house in March 2009 and released from custody on September 29, 2009. [23] In June 2014, Ross released his book, Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography, co-written by crime-writer Cathy Scott. [28]
Freeway Rick Ross debuted at the Eso Won Bookstore in Los Angeles at a book launch on June 17, 2014 to a standing-room only crowd. [7]KCET TV wrote in its review, "(The book) is fascinating for its unsentimental, inside look at his career on the streets of South Central, which started for Ross with car theft and quickly shifted to drugs and the big time."