Rapper Rick Ross crashes car into building after shooting: report

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Source: Chicago Tribune

A Rolls-Royce owned by rapper Rick Ross smashed into a building in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., early today after it was the target of gunfire, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.

A woman who woke up to the sounds of a car crashing into her apartment building after police were called about reports of gunfire said Ross was one of two people inside the vehicle, according to one report.

Beth Balk, a waitress at the nearby Floridian Restaurant, told the Sun Sentinel she was asleep on the couch when she heard the crash, saw a silver Rolls Royce up against her building and looked outside to see a man and a woman who appeared to be stunned.

Balk was shown a picture of the rapper and said, "Yes, that's definitely the guy."

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-rick-ross-crash-20130128,0,1334734.story

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1. More of this East coast/West coast rivalry bullshit?

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. Ugh what?

Its 2013 people are still buying into that media hysteria?

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5. I know it was all media bullshit

I was being tongue in cheek.
Sorry if I wasn't clear on that.

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4. Or a case of the 'wrong' Rick Ross?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022194106

Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS

Quite a bit of essential US history in this piece that most establishment news media has refused to touch the last 20 years. After reading this, some of you will have greater understanding of why the corporate media has always shown a concerted effort to marginalize Kerry publicly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ross/how-john-kerry-exposed-th_b_2469665.html

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Long forgotten today is the resolve Kerry had to have to almost singularly stand up to the Reagan & Bush administration. All despite the McCarthyesqe efforts used to make him seem crazed for his ground breaking investigation.

-Though John Kerry's early warnings about White House-aided Contra gunrunning had proved out, his accusations about Contra drug smuggling would continue to be rejected by much of the press corps as going too far.

On Jan. 21, 1987, the conservative Washington Times attacked Kerry's Contra-drug investigation again; his alleged offense this time was obstructing justice because his probe was supposedly interfering with the Reagan administration's determination to get at the truth. "Kerry's staffers damaged FBI probe," the Times headline read. Congressional investigators for Sen. John Kerry severely damaged a federal drug investigation last summer by interfering with a witness while pursuing allegations of drug smuggling by the Nicaraguan resistance. The drift of the article made Kerry out to be something of a dupe. His Contra-cocaine witnesses were depicted as simply convicts trying to get lighter prison sentences by embroidering false allegations onto the Iran-Contra scandal. But the information in the Times story was patently untrue. The AP Contra-cocaine story had run in December 1985, almost a year before the Iran-Contra story broke. -- Salon.com

Made into a pariah much like Gary Webb, the reporter that wrote Dark Alliance on the Iran Contra in 1996, people simply wanted it all to go away because within Kerry's accusation was a darker reality than discovered in any international relations scandal in American History. "Kerry wanted to get to the bottom of something so dark,... Nobody could imagine it was so dark." Miami-based federal public defender John Mattes told Salon. The possibility the United States government might be involved in the cocaine trade, while at the same time it was writing some of the harshest known sentences in the world if its citizens sold those same drugs once they arrived to shore.
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6. Gangster Disciple beef.

http://www.mstarz.com/articles/7926/20130128/rick-ross-drive-shooting-update-target-gangster-disciples-death.htm

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14. Ross is from Miami. The east/west rivalry is SO 90s. N/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Gunfire? Florida?

My, what's next?

[farminator3000]

7. time for bulletproof glass?

"It's not about flossin' or talking tough on a radio station. Rick ought to know that he is not dealing with no punks. Beef that is not squashed can get out of hand. Tupac and Biggie proved that.""
http://www.mstarz.com/articles/7926/20130128/rick-ross-drive-shooting-update-target-gangster-disciples-death.htm

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8. I'll stick with rock music, thank you

The worst things we do are slam dance and worship Satan.


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9. fake Rick Ross pissed off the Gangster Disciples all over the country LOL

All over YouTube


GD's From Florida Asking Rick Ross To Cut A Check

Gangsta Disciples From Chicago Wants To Kill The Whole Maybach Music Group

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11. There's a whole world out there I'm totally unfamiliar with.

And why, yes, I'm as white as Wonder Bread, how'd you know?

[MzShellG]

13. Not Necessarily......

I'm as brown as a chocolate Hersheys Kiss and I'm totally unfamiliar with it as well. By choice.

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12. In the interest of fairness and balance, here are Ross' most recent responses

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And YouTube has been so busy banning copyrighted music and Daily Show skits that they didn't notice this was going on?


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20. GD's From Florida Asking Rick Ross To Cut A Check (Working Link)

Last edited Tue Nov 23, 2021, 02:10 PM - Edit history (2)

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10. If only the waitress had had a gun, this never would have happened.

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15. Rick Ross Returns To Twitter, Ignores 50 Cent Disses

Maybach Music Group leader Rick Ross is slowly but surely returning to his regular routines...just days after dodging gunfire in Florida...

...(R)ap foe 50 Cent unloaded a fury of disses his way:

"Nah they shot in the air then he drove into a building"@TauThabiso:@50cent Fif officer Ricky got shot?"," Fif tweeted January 29th.

"ok it was just firecrackers but who ever lit them in trouble cause the man damn near had a heart attack #SMSAudio" (50 Cent's Twitter)

New reports claim Ross has hired 24-hour security following what took place...
link

Ross (which he is now pronouncing Ro-ZAY) is a Grammy Award nominee -- the ceremony is Feb. 10. Hope there won't be any trouble.


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16. The 2013 Grammys have come and gone -- Rick didn't win

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but did live to tell about it:

Rick Ross appeared at the 2013 Grammy Awards showing no ill affects of narrowly escaping a near-death assassination attempt and car accident on January 28.

"(There are) no suspects and we not here to speculate on any suspects," Ross told MTV News on the red carpet. "I'm just staying positive, I'm moving forward and I'm just staying on top of my game." That doesn't mean he's taking the botched hit lightly.

"You most definitely gotta make some adjustments," he said. "But at the same time I'mma live my life and I'mma do what I love to do, and that's make music."
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17. Here's the latest on the Gangster Disciples

2 charged with murder in Hadiya Pendleton slaying

...Hours after Hadiya's funeral, attended by first lady Michelle Obama, police stopped...Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20...as they were on their way...to a friend's birthday celebration at a strip club...(They) are charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the attack...

Ward...told police the shooting was in retaliation for Williams getting wounded last July...(Williams) refused to sign a complaint against those suspected in the attack...Williams and Ward targeted Hadiya and other teens in the park Jan. 29 because they believed, mistakenly, they were members of the gang responsible for the shooting...

While police and neighbors have generally described Harsh Park and its immediate surroundings as safe, there has been an internal gang conflict brewing in the area between factions of the Gangster Disciples, police said...Ward and Williams are members of the Gangster Disciples, sources said...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-hadiya-pendleton-charges-20130211,0,631238.story

Throws the sympathy vote back in Ross' court, doesn't it?


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18. When asked how much his car is worth after the accident, Mr Ross replied,

"Penelope Soto"

[Myrina]

19. What the hell is a Rick Ross and why is he driving a Rolls?

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21. 6/15 UPDATE: Rick Ross Charged with Kidnapping, Pistol-Whipping

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Daily Beast: “Check out your baby mama, Ricky!” A dolled-up 50 Cent, adopting the bizarre alter ego “Pimpin’ Curly,” doled out these fighting words, throwing blow after verbal blow against his rap rival Rick Ross. The grainy video’s off-screen narration complemented the XXX-rated action in the foreground: footage of...the mother of Ross’s child having sex with her ex-boyfriend...The 13-minute sex tape was played in...a Manhattan courtroom on June 16. The very next day, an unhinged Ross allegedly snapped, going full-on gangster on his gardener.

Ross, 39, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, and his 42-year-old bodyguard Nadrian James are...in jail after a Fayette County, Georgia, magistrate judge denied the two bail...Zamudio suffered chipped front teeth and a broken jaw, and was limited to eating his meals through a straw. Ross, meanwhile, is being charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and kidnapping—and the arrest came just a week after Ross was stopped by Atlanta police in his Bentley and subsequently arrested for possession of marijuana...

Ross’s lawyer Adamma McKinnon told The Daily Beast her client...is in high spirits...and...that he’s being framed for being famous... Asked if the sex tape played in Manhattan Supreme Court (Ross’s ex is currently suing 50 Cent for defamation) the day before the alleged incident with his groundskeeper sent the rapper into a rage, McKinnon said she didn’t know...

It seems Ross had reason to be upset—with 50 Cent...(Their) longstanding feud reportedly began in January 2009, when Ross is said to have looked at Fiddy the wrong way at the BET Awards...

A six-year feud founded on a dirty look? I guess they both deserve credit for not being dead yet. As for being framed -- by who, his bodyguard? Either Ross did help beat up the guy, or he didn't. And as for acquitting Ross for taking out his anger at Fifty on the help, that's a little thin as defense strategies go, counselor!


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22. 5/16 UPDATE Not From the Onion -- Ross' Jail Tracking Bracelet Goes Off In White House

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TMZ: Rick Ross was like a loud fart in a quiet room when his ankle bracelet went off over the weekend at the White House.

Ross was there along with a bunch of other rappers -- Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, J. Cole, Wale and DJ Khaled -- to support Obama's Brother's Keeper youth initiative, ironically to keep men of color out of trouble.

It was a serious and fancy affair -- enough to get Ross in a suit, which covered the ankle monitor he has to wear, a condition of release in his kidnapping case.

...Obama finished his speech when Ross' anklet ripped through the silence...

I guess rapper Nicki Minaj (who "troubled" male youth of color in another way by posing for this statue), was filling in for her current heartthrob rapper Meek Mill, who's on house arrest with a tracking anklet of his own -- how hard it is for Obama's staff to run a simple background check? But I guess anyone can pass as a role model for youth if they can make a big enough donation.


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23. 5/16 UPDATE #2 Ross Named As Victim In Indictment Of 48 Gangster Desciples

Feds indict cop, arrest 48 alleged members of Gangster Disciples in 9 states

The indictment also says that in November 2012 the gang threatened a rapper, identified only by the initials "R.R.," with violence unless he paid them for using the gang's name and symbols. Prosecutors declined to identify the artist, but rapper Rick Ross has mentioned the gang in lyrics. Ross canceled shows around the time the threats were made, but he told WEDR radio in Miami in December 2012: "I canceled the rest of the tour due to a promoter, because he wasn't really handling his business...Never was it due to any threats."

Helpful hint for the day: When you find yourself with a promoter who isn't handling his business, and you have money begging to be made by touring...get another promoter!


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