Notorious Los Angeles drug kingpin Rick Ross is scheduled to be released from prison on Monday. His May 4 release comes after he was served with a life sentence resulting from a C.I.A. cocaine smuggling scandal. Ross was nicknamed “Freeway” because he owned several properties along Los Angeles’ Harbor Freeway, where he ran a crack-cocaine distribution ring that was said to have earned $2.3 million a day. In an interview with PBS, Ross claimed he had thousands of employees and an operation that stretched across the U.S. He said he ran cocaine sales in St. Louis, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Seattle.
In 1996 Ross was “set-up” by his long time dealer, Oscar Danilo Blandon, who orchestrated a sting with the C.I.A in an undercover operation. The set-up led to the kingpin’s apprehension and life sentence after his attempt to purchase 1000 kilos of cocaine.
In recent years a Florida rapper, who is rumored to be a former jail guard, has made a significant contribution to Billboard’s Top 200 via his rap alias “Freeway Rick Ross.” The rapper insists he did not base his music career and persona off the true Rick Ross.
Ross, however, feels differently, “After seeing all the stuff that has been going on with the Correctional Officer (William Roberts) that stole my name, [it] makes me think back to a year and a half ago when we spoke,” Freeway Ricky Ross explained to AllHipHop.com in a previous interview. “I tried to talk to him like a big brother and let him know to be you, and that he couldn’t be me.”
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