Rick Ross once worked as a collection officer in Florida from 1995 to 1997, where he resigned and started off his professional career by writing rap lyrics that romanticized drug dealing. His first recording debut was a truck called “Aint Shhhh to Discuss.”
Rick Ross adopted his stage name from the stories he used to hear about “Freeway” Rick Ross, who was a drug trafficker. After joining Slip-n Slide records which was an affiliate of Def Jam label, he released his debut album Port of Miami in 2006 topping Billboard 200 and had hits such as push It”.in 2008 he released his second album Trilla which was a success too topping Billboard 200 and had hits such as “The Boss,” “Speedin,” “This is The Life” and “Here I Am.”
In 2009 Rick Ross released his third album titled Deeper Than Rap (2009) debuting to position one on Billboard 200 and selling over 439k copies in the U.S. the fourth studio album released in 2010 Teflon Don debuted to position two on Billboard 200 and had since sold over 720K copies in the U.S alone. Other studio albums that have been released by Rick Ross are God Forgives, I Don’t (2012), Mastermind (2014), Hood Billionaire (2014), Black Market (2015), Rather You Than Me (2017) and currently working on Port of Miami 2: Born to Kill which is set to be released in 2018.
Apart from music Rick Ross has appeared in some films such as 2008 Days Of Wrath, Late Show with David Letterman 2009, Chelsea Lately 2012, Magic City 2013, among others as an entrepreneur Rick Ross owns a couple of Wingstop restaurants.
