What is with Florida's gangster rappers?  Are they all fake?  Is it something in the water?

The Smoking Gun is reporting that famed Miami rapper, and proud former drug dealer, Rick Ross, was once a prison correction officer for Dade County.  Considering that Ross, (real name William Roberts) has a hit track titled "Push It," which boasts his former ability to push Bolivian marching powder and garishly samples the soundtrack to Scarface, it is safe to say that his O.G. rep is now toast.

Wow, a gangster rapper who proved to be not who he claimed to be!  This sounds sooooo familiar!

From the Gun:

Apparently desperate to distance himself from any affiliation with law enforcement, the rapper Rick Ross has recently denounced as fake photos purporting to show him in a former career as a Florida prison guard. But Department of Corrections (DoC) records show that Ross, whose raps detail the Miami gangster lifestyle and his supposed days trafficking cocaine, did, in fact, work as a correctional officer for 18 months. Ross (real name: William Leonard Roberts) was appointed a prison guard in December 1995 at a salary of $22,913.54, according to the below personnel record, which was provided to TSG by Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a DoC spokesperson. The rapper's social security number is identical to that of the jail guard. According to the official document, Ross was earning $25,794.34 when he resigned in June 1997. After graduating from the DoC training academy, Ross was assigned to the South Florida Reception Center in Dade County (the lockup is one of three statewide that serves as an intake facility for new prisoners).

The Gun also has a photo of Ross' graduation photo from correction officer training:

Ross playing drug dealer in the video for "Push It":