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By Davey D.

On Monday, May 4th, Freeway Ricky Ross will finally be released from prison after serving 20 years for being a “drug kingpin.”  The real Ricky Ross oversaw a Los Angeles based multi-state drug operation in the early 1980’s, which earned upwards of $2 million dollars per day at its height.

After L.A.P.D. set up a sting operation to bring him down (The Freeway Taskforce), Ricky finally turned himself in, weeks after a rogue police officer attempted to set him up and murder him in an alley.  Ricky was sentenced to prison and released in 1996.  After 6 months, his former cocaine distributor, who was working for the CIA (unbeknownst to Ricky), asked Ricky for a favor—it turned out to be a set up, and in 1996, Ricky Ross was sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating the purchase of over 100 kilos of cocaine from an undercover federal agent.

Ross’ sentence was later reduced through appeals and after a series of explosive articles by the late Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb wrote a series titled “Dark Alliance” for the San Jose Mercury News, which exposed the C.I.A.’s role in importing cocaine into black communities to fund Sandinistas in El Salvador, as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.

That series turned into the best-selling book, “Dark Alliance,” that blew the lid off of the alleged CIA complicity in the importation of cocaine into the US, creating the exceptionally profitable, and damaging, crack cocaine epidemic spread through many inner city neighborhoods.  Congressional Hearings, in the late-90s, found the book’s facts to be true.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Grad_Studnt/ Grad_Studnt

    The fake C.O. Ricky Ross better stop using his name.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ProBlackfist/ ProBlackfist

    I hope he will start going around in different hoods of
    this country and start telling
    black people who he was working
    for.
    This could play a major role
    in stop a lot of the violence
    and going among black youth
    of today who seem to caught
    up in the world of drug dealing and gang banging.
    A lot of black people need to
    know why they went to jail
    and why certain black died for
    real.
    Instead of hiding the truth.
    Gary Webb did not lie,when he
    wrote the book ” Dark Alliance “

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shakeme4life/ shakeme4life

    I agree with the previous statement , the truth needs to be told to our youth that are struggling in the dope game,,,in and out of jail ,missing various important parts of their lives…and damaging family tides…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NICOQ/ NICOQ

    What the CIA complicit to wrong doings in the black community.

    Nooooo

    Never

    The US government would never knowingly, willfully try to erode a black community right???

    Don’t waste your time the mindless masses sleep to hard to except such poppyc**k.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    GOOD! I HOPE YOU CALL OUT THE FAKE RICK ROSS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR/ DA_GEORGETOWN_MAYOR

    UH OH! I THE REAL 50 CENT COMES OUT, THEY CAN START REAL BEEF WIT THE FAKE 50 AND FAKE RICK ROSS! THAT WOULD BE DOPE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Last_Revelation/ Last_Revelation

    lol@georgetown… a real vs fake battle would be great… seeing as they are both using names of people who were in the “game” before them… all of this is just a show of ignorance…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    what the hell is goin on with all these CB4 a$$ rappers??? WTF?!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LyRicAlLyiNcLiNeD/ LyRicAlLyiNcLiNeD

    lol how u just Picc the biggest Cracc Dealers name to be your own By CHANCE??? pretty big co-winky dink.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/a_tall_romantic/ a_tall_romantic

    Wow funny how the rapper Rick Ross even cut his hair to be like dude aint this about a b***h.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/carter312/ carter312

    Yall need to stop with these dumb articles

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lyrical_deity/ lyrical_deity

    not just rick ross but freeway too a lot of ppl didn’t know that

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CLAY-D/ CLAY-D

    you always learn new stuff everyday your surfing

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JAXFINEST/ JAXFINEST

    The sad thing about this is that yall dont recognize the article about the implement of the cocaine. yall worrying about The name the rapper. A lot of my black people is pitiful

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackCasper2001/ BlackCasper2001

    Rick Ross (the rapper) ain’t no boss and Freeway (the rapper) gets my respect. I can understand how they look up to “Freeway” Ricky Ross. It’s about the hustle and the man did get set-up. Even though he was drug trafficking, he had to make a living. And even today, black men still get pigeonholed and can’t do things without compromising their dignity or who they are. To be a black man in America still means you have to sacrifice something. It should be easier by now.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Miamisfinest86/ Miamisfinest86

    nice crack dealer turned informant gets locked up and gets out 20 years later. Is he going to go back to drug dealing??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2DieIsGain/ 2DieIsGain

    oh my word seriously? that is horrible, crack came in by the CIA i guess we arent as paranoid as we thought

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/taurus216/ taurus216

    bein a black man doesnt mean you have to sacrifise anything atall you could pay you dues at school and get a good job like anybody else some just choose to do the wrong thing take noresponsibity and blame other when you get caught up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/taurus216/ taurus216

    bein a black man doesnt mean you have to sacrifice anything atall you could pay you dues at school and get a good job like anybody else some just choose to do the wrong thing take noresponsibity and blame other when you get caught up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/taurus216/ taurus216

    bein a black man doesnt mean you have to sacrifice anything atall you could pay you dues at school and get a good job like anybody else some just choose to do the wrong thing take noresponsibity and blame other when you get caught up…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/taurus216/ taurus216

    “freeway” and “rick rose the rappers stole his name and cut there hair and rock the beard to try to look like him lmao
    thats homo

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Takeover_Outlaw/ Takeover_Outlaw

    the rapper rick ross finna get handld by this nicca cuz i memba reading that he had a lil grudge against him for using his name and then he used to be a officer i know i would be afta doin time and dis nicca a ex cop usin my name

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GenuineDRAFT713/ GenuineDRAFT713

    lmao damn agree with taurus216 lmao if i was him i would call them both out lmao its a shame they even tried to look like him

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Miamisfinest86/ Miamisfinest86

    no cocaine came in by the government experimentation invented crack. RICK ROSS WAS A CRACK DEALER IN THE HOOD

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    2 million a day. And to think you wouldnt get caught making that kinda money ? Why is usa in debt? I think rick’s money cover majority of the bailout plan

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KHAKIsuiteKING/ KHAKIsuiteKING

    WELCOME HOME RICK AND VICK!! F*%&CK THE JUDGE, THE JURY AND THE DA (RIP GARY WEBB)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Delegatezero/ Delegatezero

    Whoever wrote this article is historically ignorant. The money was used to fund Somozistas, the people fighting the Sandinistas, in Nicaragua, not El Salvador. Such a shame.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stupidfatandugly/ stupidfatandugly

    he better stay on the straight and narrow both cause he’s given a THIRD chance here but i shake my head at anyone who idolizes someone who poisoned their own community for money.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsLaLady/ MsLaLady

    Long Road to Redemption my cousin! Louisiana

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blackdiamond184/ blackdiamond184

    Why would someone want to name themselves after a person who made they’re living destroying peoples lives. Unfortunately I dealt that before and I watched a pathetic woman in the most filthy house I have ever been in smoke a rock in front of her kid that she could barely scroung up a dub for. These rappers want to emmulate and act like that is cool and kids listen to that s**t and want to be just like them, this website just feeds into that too. Drug dealing is very easy money and these rappers just encourage it, What happened to rappers like Will Smith who actually have a positive impact on the youth. Or is street life ending up in prison for 20 years with kids on the outside the cool way to go ?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CNoriega/ CNoriega

    Why do black people idolize people like this? You guys do know he hurt a lot of blacks in poor communities? You do know he helped the government put in all those drugs in BLACK communities? Black people need to wake the f**k up and stop being stuck on stupid.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    blackdiamond184 positive rappers don’t sell anywhere near the amount the other one do.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Diva-For-U/ Diva-For-U

    well i don’t care what anyone have to say Rick Ross didn’t make anyone take any of the drugs, all those crack heads did what they want to! I am not mad at him and i do wish the best for him! And i end this by saying you can’t make a grown person take anything they don’t wanna take!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rajarabbit/ rajarabbit

    The way I see it. Everybody has a choice right or wrong. Rick Ross didnt put a gun to anybody’s head and say smoke crack. If you stupid enough to do the drug, then I hate nobody makin a profit off you. The drugs are bought in from another country and distributed in the US. The US can stop it but they wont. Drug busts one of the biggest revenues for the government.

    Many times Blacks dont want to hear the truth. Back in the Martin Luther King Days and Malcolm X days blacks were more united and kept pushing though the bad.

    Fast forward to 2009 and they have 20 times more chances then blacks back then and they want to rely on excuses of not getting ahead. There is racism, drugs, and many other obstacles in our way, but we have to keep fighting. Bill Cosby didnt offend me when he had that rant, he was telling the truth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrwlscott/ mrwlscott

    I AGREE WITH CNORIEGA,WE NEED TO WAKE THE HELL UP AND STOP IDOLIZING PEOPLE WHO PERSONIFY EVERY NEGATIVE STEROTYPE THERE IS ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKMYSTIC1/ DARKMYSTIC1

    Ricky it’s 20 yrs later playa 2009/the game done change it’s a new day/ the president is black /yea we in a recession like 1928/ ricky boss it’s your time/Do something different with the rest of your life become a movie producer or inventor or something.Just stay the hell away from the devil’s white gold/hey i know life is tuff you gotta surzive in this ruff hard unbarable life/Ricky the boss you made it/ bring something new too the table hell /drugs like buying m&m’s candy these days its worthless posion man change your compass man drugs is not you no more let it go playa shalommmm>>>

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mskane808/ mskane808

    i’m interview ricky found out when keep up with me on blogtalkradio.com

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Keeshy10/ Keeshy10

    Aww he’s so wittle!! Very very true@ mrwlscott, this here is why Black people are viewed so negative

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/-HatedOnMostly-/ -HatedOnMostly-

    man if no one has, watch America’s Drug War: The Last White Hope. OMG that’s some real s**t. More people die a year from tobacco and alcohol than ALL deaths (illicit drug use, homicide etc. but NOT inlcuding deaths related to poor diet and physical inactivity) combined…Not saying that you should go out and smoke crack but when someone is raped and their attacker is sentenced to 10-20 years and someone who “simply” sells drugs is sentenced to 20 yrs to life…that’s disturbing and why the hell are we paying the government billions of dollars a year to keep weed illegal and not one person has ever died from it and they give non violent weed dealers harsh time in prison? FREE (THE REAL) RICK ROSS A LONG TIME AGO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/michellepee/ michellepee

    Congrats to Ricky for being released, it a blessing; a lot of our black men will never be able to walk out the doors of prison. Ricky keep ur head up, stay positive. Ur already a legacy in its own right live the remainder of ur days with dignity and pride.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/southdade77/ southdade77

    s**t if they can free the cocaine cowboys why not ross but those damn republicans are such f**king crooks they on one coast trying to stop it and on the other using b***hes to get it in i think during the 80′s the republican party was in the dope game and i they was taking dope from people and selling to others cuz they saw the potential

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blackasiaX/ blackasiaX

    Hope the real Rick Ross comes to collect a check from the fake one on the mic in the near future.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/g-slick1/ g-slick1

    wow a lot of blacks didnt know the story of ricky, ross, yes he sold crack ,but the cia,, made it all possible ,, soo why hate him,,i dont its da goverment dat i dont trust ,,real talk ,,,,,do u know the story of the aids epedimic,,how bout this did u know dat a intire town in fla,, got burn to da ground,,back in da days ,, do u know the real story of rosa parks,,,im learning more black history than ever on the internet,,,bp i love u

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EsidesFinest/ EsidesFinest

    THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CONSPIRACY AND A LONG RANGE BUSINESS PLAN. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY IT, CALL IT A CONSPIRACY, AND THE PEOPLE WHO BENEFIT FROM IT CALL IT A BUSINESS PLAN. THE SCARIEST THING ABOUT ALL THIS WAS THAT, IT WENT ON WAS SO FAR DOWN THE LADDER OF AGENDA FOR AMERICA, WE WHERE WORRIED ABOUT COMMUNISM, WHICH IN AMERICA’S EYES JUSTIFIES THE DESTRUCTION OF ANYONE OR ANYTHING, ESPECIALLY A MINORITY. SO IF WE HAVE TO SACRAFICE A INNER CITY OF MINORITES THAT WE HAVEN’T RESPECTED IN 500 YEARS, SO BE IT WAS WHAT THE CIA SAID. WE GET TO FLOOD THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS WITH DRUGS, DESTROY FAMILIES, AND PUT ALOT OF MINORITIES IN JAIL AND PRIVATISE THE JAILS. MONEY MONEY MONEY. YOU THINK THEIR GOING TO CATCH US, AND IF THEY DO, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO? THIS IS THE MINDSET OF SOMEONE INVOLED IN THIS. ITS FUNNY HOW WE LEARN ABOUT RICKY ROSS AND HIS STORY, BUT OLIVER STONE AND THE COCAINE COWBOYS ARE HEROS. WE LEARN ABOUT A FICTIOUS SCARFACE IN THE 70′S WHEN FRANK LUCAS AND OTHERS WHERE ALREADY DOING WHAT THE AMERICAN MAFIA DIDN’T HAVE THE BRAINS TO DO. AMERICA AMERICA, AMERICA, GOD SHED SOME GRACE ON THEE…. THEY GIVE RICKY ROSS THE TITLE OF “THE MAN WHO DESTROYED THE INNER CITY”. I’M NOT SAYING WHAT HE DID WAS RIGHT, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU POINT A FINGER AT SOMEONE…THREE ARE POINTING BACK AT YOU. ROSS DOESN’T OWN A PLANE, A OCEAN LINER OR A TUNNEL FROM TIJUANA TO SOUTH CENTRAL L.A. SO HOW WAS HE GETTING THE DOPE IN THE COUNTRY? I THINK YOU NEED SOME POWERFUL FRIENDS TO GET DOPE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY BUDDY. EVEN THE MEDIA PLAYED THEIR PART IN THE EARLY 80′S, THEY REPORT ON CRACK COCAINE AND BLACKS IN THE SAME PICTURES AND SENTENCES SO MUCH, IT MAKES YOU THINK THAT BLACKS ARE THE MAJORITY IN THE COUNTRY, WE ARE 10 PERCENT OF THIS POPULATION AND 90 PERCENT OF THE INMATES IN CORRECTIONS, WHAT PERCEPTION ARE WE REALLY SELLING? RUSSELL CROWE’S CHARACTER IN “AMERICAN GANGSTA” SAID IT BEST. “THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WANT THE DRUG WAR TO END, BECAUSE THEN 250,000 PEOPLE LIKE JUDGES, COPS, CORRECTION OFFICERS, DOCTORS AND LAWYERS WOULD BE OUT OF WORK”. ALL THAT MEANS IS MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND. THE ONLY THING YOU CAN COUNT ON FROM AMERICA IS THAT THEIR GOING TO GET THEIR CUT AND DUMP THE TRASH ON THE NEAREST SCAPEGOAT (ROSS).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/icalee02/ icalee02

    I was born in the 70′s. And by ’87 or ’88. I was in the game. Everyone should watch the Oliver North hearings on Iran-Contra. You will see the lie and underhandedness of the American government. Oliver should have been found guilty if you pay attention. Now he’s on Fox news. You have to love those conservatives.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bestrongblac/ bestrongblac

    I’M NOT SURPRISED ABOUT WHOLE THING, RICK ROSS WAS A PAWN AND A SCAPEGOAT FOR THE CIA! RICK ROSS DID NOT OWN THE PLANES THAT BROUGHT THE COCAINE HERE, IT WAS THE CIA WHO BROUGHT IT TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND THAT DESTROYED MANY NUBIANS FAMILIES, AND FILLED THE PRISON SYSTEM WITH OUR BODIES, AND TO TOP IT OFF NONE OF THOSE PEOPLE PUT THIS PLAN TOGETHER IS SOMEWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN THE PLACE THAT THEY BELONG,PRISON. RICK ROSS, DID HIS TIME FOR THE PART HE PLAYED IN THIS NEW HOLOCAUST ONCE AGAIN WE ARE THE NUBIANS VICTIMS ON THE SHORE OF NORTH AMERICA! MALCOLM X SAID THAT SOME ABOUT A ROCK LANDING ON OUR HEADS, WELL ANOTHER ROCK LANDED ON US AGAIN.WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP AS A WHOLE BODY OF PEOPLE? THERE ARE SOMETHING AS A NATION OF NUBIANS PEOPLE WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE ON THE SHORT END OF THE STICK THAT WILL BRING DAMAGE TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND UNTIL WE UNITE AS A NUBIAN NATIONS WE WILL ALWAYS GET THING DONE TO US IN THE WORST WAY. NOW DON’T GET MY WORDS TWISTED Y’ALL OUT HERE BECAUSE WE CAN DO THINGS WITHOUT GETTING OUT OF HAND. BECAUSE OTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE GOT THEIR POINT ACROSS WITHOUT NO ONE GETTING HURT, SO LET THINK WHAT WOULD MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WOULD HAVE DONE IN A CRISIS LIKE THIS ONE WE HAVE NOW!

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