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NY Times - Beyond Authenticity: A Rapper Restages
Gepubliceerd op 22 april 2009 door NY Times

Atlanta BlackStar - Rick Ross, the Ex-Drug Kingpin, Says CIA Behind Hip Hop’s Love Affair With Drugs
21 november 2014 - The CIA is behind rap’s obsession with drugs. Rick Ross says so. No, not the rapper, but the actual cocaine kingpin whose artist name and persona was hijacked by Rick Ross the rapper. He should know. “They were the guys who were behind me when I was selling drugs,” Ross said of the CIA. “And now they’re behind hip hop and rock ‘n’ roll.” The CIA has been documented making enormous profits from the international drug trade, including the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s.