Rick Ross or William Roberts grew up near Miami when the drug war against the Cocaine Cowboys was at its peak. Witnessing the horrors of cartel justice made him relate even more to the gangster rap music he listened to. Although he fantasized about a drug-dealers life, he actually took the straight root to pay the bills and became a correctional officer at the age of 19, I know what your thinking – his street cred just out the window but now a days the dude is deffo on the other side of the law, in fact he's even willing to risk his life to hustle.