With a chart topping successful number one album like 'God Forgives, I Don't' in stores, Rolling Stone felt it was only right for Rick Ross to cover their new issue of Rolling Stone Magazine which hits newsstands on Friday, August 17th. For the first time Rozay talks about life as a corrections officer, also seizures he suffered, recent theater shooting in Colorado, and more. Below is a few exerts from Rick Ross Rolling Stone cover story, to read more head over to RollingStone.com .
Ross suggests that the seizures he suffered late last year were probably the result of smoking too much weed: "I'm most definitely an avid user, a pothead, however you want to look at it. I call it green caviar. It's like a short vacation – it helps me chill out. And people really love it when I chill out, because I can really be a dickhead."
For the first time, Ross talks about his past life as a corrections officer – an opportunity, he says, to "wash my hands" after his best friend was sentenced to 10 years for trafficking cocaine and heroin: "This was my best friend, who I ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches with, and pork and beans with, my buddy, my partner, my number-one dude. Suddenly I'm talking to him over federal phone calls. Hearing the way it was building, I knew I couldn't take nothing for granted," says Ross. "My homey's father was a huge influence on my life, too . . . He was the one who was like, 'Yo, go get a job somewhere, man. Go be a fireman. Or go be a fucking corrections officer. Just go sit down somewhere."
