Rick Ross is writing a memoir, and he’s not shying away from one of the most controversial aspects of his past.
On Tuesday (March 5), the Maybach Music Group boss announced plans to release Hurricanes: A Memoir this fall.
“A storm is coming,” he wrote on Twitter. “#HURRICANES PRE-ORDER MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY HERE! amzn.to/2EPAR6T.”
An official description for the book confirms it will address his time as a correctional officer.
“From the making of ‘Hustlin’ to his first major label deal with Def Jam, to the controversy surrounding his past as a correctional officer and the numerous health scares, arrests and feuds he had to transcend along the way, Hurricanes is a revealing portrait of one of the biggest stars in the rap game, and an intimate look at the birth of an artist,” it reads.
Ross’ C.O. past was infamously exposed by websites such as The Smoking Gun in 2008. Although Ross initially denied the reports and claimed photos of him in uniform were doctored, he eventually admitted the truth later that year.
Hurricanes: A Memoir is being co-written by Neil Martinez-Belkin. It’s scheduled to drop on September 3.
“My story has always been deeper than rap,” Ross said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “With this book I wanted to go deeper than I ever have. I wanted to tell people about the life of William Leonard Roberts.”
Pre-order Ross’ book here.
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More fairytales from the biggest fraud we’ve seen thus far. No one will ever believe anything this clown says for the rest of his life. Chris Rock already made CB4, save some trees we dont want to read your exaggerations and lies.
From Maple Flavored Bacon Eater to Mogul, quite the story
You think hes gonna talk about impregnating a cheap call girl??
The REAL Rick Ross already has a book. It’s not fiction either like this bum ass slobs book.
Im going to buy the Rick Ross book. Just not this Rick Ross, The real one.
What kind of man is ashamed of having a legitimate career? He will forever be wack to me after that. Pretending to be something hes not while glamorizing a ficticous life of drug dealing and violence and never breaking character or showing any signs of being a real human. It paid off for him but he will never be truly respected like his peers who didn’t have to fake it till they made it.
Correctional Officer Ricky Presents:Snitch Files The Donut Diaries
Yo I just died reading this
Rip
“From jail stop to wing stop, a checkered past to owning checkers” The semi autobiographical story of William Leonard Roberts II.
Dont nobody care about this fool life
1st off he shouldve used his birth name still trying to capitalize off the real rick ross name
exactly. i hope in this book he will address the fact that he stole a living man’s identity while he was incarcerated. then lied and said he had no idea who the man he stole his name from was. then proceeded to call the man who’s name he bears a snitch and an informant! if Freeway was a snitch like he called him publically why did William take his name in the first place?
oh no he was a CO. God forbid people work a job to support their families! the horror!
Hes the one who denies it and lied about it. If he was honest people would have understood. Also he had no family to support at that point in time. Remember his mama was well off.
This is so awsome Rick Ross and congratulations on your memoirs! It a must buy on my list! Are you going to be doing a book sign either or in Nj. I was born and raise in the 6th boro L.E.S. NYC however i relocated 6 yrs ago to NJ ( Central North of NJ) looking forward in meeting you if you have a buying and book signing! (One? my brotha) P.S. continue the good work with your medical issues we do survive) Much?
Dear evie,
Wtf were you on when you wrote this? From reading this it makes me think you won’t be able to follow and comprehend the book due to your illiteracy. I do not look forward to seeing your dumbass so please don’t show up to any of my book signings, i will make sure not to schedule any signings in nj in order to avoid your thirsty ass, also i will inform my security to be vigilant of any super obsessive stans like yourself. And L.e.s. isn’t the 6th boro you idiot its a very small part of manhattan which is in itself a small borough but anyways thanks for writing to me in the comment section of a hiphop website (cause that’s where i get most of my fan mail thru).
P.s. Send me your new address so i can go bend your mom over.
Love,
Rick (officer ricky) Ross
This is how the real world works
Wow why so much hate we have lued in the past and still do! There ain’t no one perfect in this ?. We all have a past and some of us learned from our mistakes! ” WE LIVE TO LEARN AND LEARN TO LIVE” So lets stop all this negative vibes! He has done some goods too and especially in my hood with a few a few young rappers and acknowledge them and is still helping out in the rappers field in other states too! Positive vibes here!
Fake ass Suge
STFU and get back in the studio Rick Ross. You’re relevant because of your catchy songs and that is all. And even the lyrics of those songs are full of bullshit so I can only imagine the lies and exaggerations that a book would contain. Writing is not your forte, trust me! You got a great ear for beats, so go use it.
Lets see if he is going to be honest about trading all that contrabands for men’s assholes.
Ricky is a good rapper like me but I’d never be a pig.
Rap music is just entertainment. Who cares what he did? Who takes rap music serious?
I agree with you mostly, but at the same time, there’s hip hop music out there that doesn’t glorify violence even when the creator of that glorified violence doesn’t actually do what they’re talking about. So hip hop can actually be taken seriously. You just have to have that discretion to be able to figure out what’s serious and what’s not
Jay Z
He pooped himself as a 40 yr old man
I’m Nationwide with my Rip Ride!
Screw you cop
You wanna lie to us some more?
So u take rap music literally?
Stfu, this dude lies on every interviews, his careet was built on lies, not just in his music, his whole persona is fabricated…so you actulally think this dude is going to tell the truth in this book about his life? I bet anybody that he’ll still say he became a correctional officer in order to snuggle drugs for thee cartels…smh, i cant stand that fat fck
remember when this guy rapped the lines “ya shit pushed back cause it ain’t buzzing” to jeezy? Port of Miami 2 been pushed back so many times at this point. he had a listening party last summer and it was so trash he started over! hah
Ross played hisself by lying…the fact is, he had a county job & if you live in South Florida, a county job is like damn near hitting the lotto to people down there…ive never viewed Ross as a real person, more like a product that he pushes to the masses cause he never breaks character (much like Jay Z before 4:44) so this book will most likely be more of that same “im a kingpin” narrative..
A lot of yall attacking ross for being a CO in the past are hypocrites. Eminem was never a killer yet he gets a pass
I agree, Eminem should be fat and wear dark shades
I hope the addresses Officer Down by Lloyd Banks, where he got ethered and got nothing to respond with