How/When did the real Rick Ross become a folk hero?

[get these nets]

People talk about the govt. "flooding the ghetto with heroin in the 1970s: and then "flooding the hood with crack in the 1980s". When Rick Ross's name comes up , rarely do I hear the words "traitor" "sellout" or "agent" used. Yet I've heard those terms used to refer to Black people whose actions didn't directly or indirectly do a fraction of the harm that Ross' did. Only thing critical I noted reading about him was a writer calling him a "puppet".

 

[Kairi Irving]

c00ns romanticizing criminals nothing new.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Who calls him a hero?

 

[Diondon]

I give a damn bout Freeway Rick

 

[Nobu]

When he dropped that "Teflon Don" album

 

[CoryMack]

he's significant because he's how we found out about the role the cia played in destroying the Black community in this country.

and because he comes off as a decent dude, despite the fact he sold poison. he's never talked tough or tried to come off as a killer like alotta these nikkas that be on some of these interviews.

 

[OG Talk]

Who calls him a hero?

White boys from the suburbs that want to act like Rick Ross the rapper owes him..

 

[Geek Nasty]

he's significant because he's how we found out about the role the cia played in destroying the Black community in this country.

and because he comes off as a decent dude, despite the fact he sold poison. he's never talked tough or tried to come off as a killer like alotta these nikkas that be on some of these interviews.

If you found out about the CIA from him stealing Freeway Ricky's name you need to get your US fukkery knowledge up.

 

[Tim2520]

I thought this would be about wing stop and checkers

 

[get these nets]

Who calls him a hero?

Local figures who operated in the streets become folk heroes in some ways. Their names ring out well after they are locked away or killed. Out in NYC, a guy named Larry Davis got into shootout with the cops......was on the run for a while in a HEAVILY covered news story. Was brought in, and the cops turned out to be crooked / pressing and extorting him. He became a local folk hero to some people.


Freeway Rick's name rang out well past Cali. Like Cory mentioned, his name was in the mix of report when a journalist blew the lid on possible CIA involvement with domestic cocaine pipeline. Street magazines & hood dvds covered his story and he became a folk hero to some people.

The amount of interviews/press he's garnered after his release attests to his popularity.

I was asking why isn't he viewed in a negative light.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Local figures who operated in the streets become folk heroes in some ways. Their names ring out well after they are locked away or killed. Out in NYC, a guy named Larry Davis got into shootout with the cops......was on the run for a while in a HEAVILY covered news story. Was brought in, and the cops turned out to be crooked / pressing and extorting him. He became a local folk hero to some people.


Freeway Rick's name rang out well past Cali. Like Cory mentioned, his name was in the mix of report when a journalist blew the lid on possible CIA involvement with domestic cocaine pipeline. Street magazines & hood dvds covered his story and he became a folk hero to some people.

The amount of interviews/press he's garnered after his release attests to his popularity.

I was asking why isn't he viewed in a negative light.

Americans root for the underdog

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

the lawsuit

 

[Bondye Vodou]

Around this time

 

[richaveli83]

I thought this would be about wing stop and checkers

 

[CoryMack]

If you found out about the CIA from him stealing Freeway Ricky's name you need to get your US fukkery knowledge up.

yeah man because i'm representative of every Black man and woman in the country.

i understand the need for daps man, but come on.