In 1989, Robert Matthew Van Winkle, a White rapper known as Vanilla Ice lost his singing career when it came to light that his biography was fabricated. Around the same time, R&B pop duo, Milli Vanilli, had a similar fate when it was discovered that they were lip syncing all of their hit songs including, "Blame It On The Rain" and "Girl You Know It's True." They even had to give back their Grammys. In 1993, comedian Chris Rock made the funny movie, CB4, which was about a straight-laced African American kid who created a fictitious gangster rapper persona to be later found to be a fraud. Now in 2014, you have life imitating art, or is it art imitating life with rapper Rick Ross whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, a former corrections officer and college football scholarship recipient who usurped the identity of drug dealer Freeway Rick Ross. Although the real Freeway Rick Ross recently lost a court battle against William Roberts because the judge considered Roberts' work "transformative" in nature and thus allowing Roberts to continue usurping the real Rick Ross' name, this nonetheless does not sit well in the court of public opinion and it is a wonder that Officer Ricky as he is pejoratively known even has a singing career. Watch the video below and get to know the real Freeway Rick Ross.
http://youtu.be/1dq4JrwqOBQ
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