Alright hip-hop fans, its finally time for me to address the whole Rick Ross situation. It seems to be pretty clear at this point that the rumors are true and that Rick Ross was a Corrections Officer. Who the hell cares? It’s not like he was a cop locking people up because their car insurance expired 2 days ago. He was a Corrections Officer and to me that’s not even close to the same thing.

C.O.’s keep order in the prisons which is a pretty friggin’ important job if you ask me because let’s face it, jails are not only filled with the hustlers you see in the movies and on TV, the kind who have a heart and are just trying to feed their families. Truth be told, there are some wild cats in prison and somebody gotta keep that under control. We’re talking about child molesters, killers, and rapists. Do you want these dudes on the street? And if they do get locked up are you going to be the one who keeps them in check while they’re doing their time? C’mon people you as well as I know that there are people out there who deserve to be locked up while the key gets ground up into pieces.

So Rick Ross was a C.O? What are you mad at? Are you mad because you think he’s not the coke hustling boss you thought he was? Are you mad because he fooled you? For those of who can’t stand the thought of Rick Ross not being a drug dealer maybe he was. He was young as a C.O. Maybe he whipped it hard, real, r eal hard after he quit. Maybe that’s why he quit. Maybe he was only working at the jail until he strengthened up all his chickens or until he got distribution like Atlantic.  Or maybe he was waiting on a favor from Noriega, the real Noriega. Okay, let me stop because I could sit here for a week doing this. Bottom line is dude is a nice guy and a good artist so let it go.

What cracks me up is that 99% of people who listen to gangsta rap are softer than a baby’s ass but the minute a little discrepancy comes up in their favorite rapper’s lives they wanna jump ship and start acting new. Just fall back and let Ross do his thing! Speaking of Miami what the hell is going on with Jacki-O? First she goes AWOL while Miami is blowing up to epic proportions then she supposedly gets slapped up and now she’s givin’ up the good stuff for a 10k advance? This is crazy. I’m wondering why she even said it because she had to know what every person who heard it was going to automatically assume. She must be in some serious turmoil. I’d love to know who put in the phone call that made her Miami’s least wanted as well.

On to some New York nonsense there’s a video of Maino slapping some kid while he’s performing on stage. First off, why would anybody go to a concert to have beef with the dude who’s performing? Seriously, I find this hysterical. That’s like going to see Jerry Seinfeld doing his routine and running to slap the cereal out of his hand. Secondly, Maino why’d ya do it? I know the kid was 1 IQ point above being an inanimate object but let it slide bro. Don’t even get into it with him. “Hi Haters” is doing real well and you’re the first NYC artist poised to move some units in a minute so fall back, brush it off, lean wit it rock wit it, lean back, just never smack a concert goer. Sure you’ll get some Youtube hits but it’s bad for the bottom line overall. I’m looking forward to Maino’s album.

I could feel that young blood rushing back to NYC. Wait until my man Skyzoo drops. I have a feeling that all competition will be destroyed and we’ll have a resurgence in the 5 boroughs. Lil Wayne is still moving units. He’s already at double plat. You gotta give it to Wayne; he’s consistently selling records. If the internet didn’t exist, how many copies do you guys think he would have sold in his first week? Could it have been 1.5? Could it have been 2? I mean, I know it sounds crazy but he did clear a mil in the internet age. There’s a lot of albums I find myself wondering that about.

Like 10 years ago, would Flo-Rida have sold 5 million records? What about Akon who still sells records, would he have doubled his already big numbers if it weren’t for the internet? Some pictures were floating around of Scott Storch driving a drop Phantom while shopping for a Lamborghini. And the man is broke? I think his problems have been blown way out of proportion. I think he’s rich people broke which is when somebody who had 100 million goes down to like 10. It definitely doesn’t seem like Storch is suffering. Man, I wish I had those types of problems. Anyway, I’m out people and I’ll see you next week. This is Jon signing off!

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