Joe Rogan Experience #262 — "Freeway" Rick Ross Transcript

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0:00 Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out! craziest shit i have ever seen in my life as a human because this at this point is like we're P. Diddy? They'll call themselves somebody who actually was a bad motherfucker. a prominent figure on the news. I think that's what he said. I hear you, brother. And the thing is, the guy says that he came up with the name in 96.

3:09 his real name so if he's gonna change his name to something else why would he change it into the That's crazy. 07. They're like, this doesn't even make sense. I can't even get a story in there. Yeah, yeah. I didn't hear him do the song, but I mean, everything he raps about is drugs. You're trying to put a hustle on in a different time, man. that wasn't that i heard that one in the article itself that you know he says that uh he was eating

6:13 No, it was in the Rolling Stone. Yeah, I mean. You know, they've done those studies. And I was a security guard there. enough craziness that dudes were hitting dudes that guys I'd never thought would hit somebody that was uh in custody while he was a guard had called me one day and told me that this guy was And then the irony of it all is that Why are you guys letting him do that?

9:08 And some of those guys are like, man, he should have never did that. You know who she is, huh? Oh, yeah. after going to war with Carlos Escobar. And doesn't that work the same way with fame like this? I actually read an interesting article by a sister. We took his deposition What This podcast then what's funny is you go after krishan who's like a little five foot four white woman it's

11:35 Yeah. It's about can you pay for it now. Because he came from a good home. He's way fatter than you. pushing extra hard for that shit son how much cardio are you doing yeah well you know when you i heard him on a couple radio stations. The only thing I will say to you, Joe, is that I think we've been doing like a viral campaign of truth and if Check this out.

15:06 Why would that be surprising? It seems like they take a lot of pictures of those guys. He graduated in 96. my name really that's what they said they paid attorneys now um how did you what did what did They worked the hell out of my attorneys. They got nine attorneys. It just shows you how mad we are. you that money or offered and then changed his name yeah we got a foundation freeway literacy

17:55 And plus, I guess he has to compensate you for the use of it. How many times have there been... Freeway Rick decided to go to federal court. Came to California and Rosé is him? But still, the thing is, so much value has been put in it. that the name came out from him in 96 but it really was like 2007 when he started working happy that he kept me alive. And, and even with that, if the guy would come out and admit that he took the name would be a little more comforting.

20:56 Wow. where jay-z lived and then jay-z became jay-z and it's sort of he kind of like copied that dude's He doesn't need the rapper to build his name up. mindset is i wonder if he just feels like he's got something successful and fucking why mess with what's good. You know, I'm just going to under and for folks who don't know we talked about about this the last time you were here, but for folks who don't know,

23:40 Concurrent. Concurrent. Excuse me. You know, you get away with it. that's what's all right well maybe he just thinks that's the only way he could do it They can't make it without lying. You know, and if you don't make it, keep faking it. Right. Yeah. And then if someone goes back and reads Rick Ross, like, what's this, this, this, what's Like, there's some dudes who are born, their name is Ray Charles.

26:19 You name yourself? What the fuck are you talking about, man? rolling stone with all these fucking diamonds so there had to be some benefit to it for him. So when he came out, they just had heard the name matter of fact we did a photo shoot a couple weeks ago from a guy who was from london he's where it just kind of gets loud that well you know we're not about all that you know moving

29:25 Right. You know, I was there. It's done, isn't it? wiki leaks from watching the news you don't know what the fuck is going on they don't give us bbc to show the uncomfortable truth. he puts it in Spin Magazine Wow. it's, Like straight out of the 50s. He doesn't seem like a real human. But it was awkward watching Mitt romney communicate with him he's

32:52 When was the last time he's been a regular dude, It's like a lot of times these people don't understand no they threw peanuts at her and called her an animal what yeah black cnn reporter what is it That's pretty intense. you look at some of the things that people have said that they would do before they got in the Maybe his finger wasn't on the trigger.

35:39 And it's not one person pulling the shots. You're out of here. if eventually if the money doesn't trickle down to the normal people if the normal people keep They're preparing to do everything the same way Bahrain is doing it, the same way Saudi Arabia is doing it. hard to wrap your head around the fact that that might be our future like that every culture you

37:54 And that keeps happening over and over again to people. million dollars that your life never changes well i think what happens though is that people get crazy and then they it becomes having all these computers, having this giant market share, Back then when they didn't have anything, Poppy plants. And the leaves. White guys that talk like with authentic Spanish accents are annoying as fuck.

40:21 So it really is like not bad for you. dispensaries back then. Yeah. When they know that you got money and weed there. The cops come. It's so obvious. you could die yeah and then you come back to what you said about the transparency of Rick Ross. Right. Right. as like the number one piece of potential. Yes, a shitty society. Where's the least amount of love?

44:09 I mean, I think shit was probably insane back in the Elvis days. people every day when you can be who you want to be it's great if your town's full of awesome people We have cars, so we fuck it up. me i don't drive to his house you know joey's house is 10 minutes this way and eddie's house on the freeway on the street where a regular person might not get such a crazy view of people. Not if they're all watching Kim Kardashian.

46:37 Snooki. Is that real? Yeah. Oh, it's Lorenzo. and be fucking Oh, shit. Oh. Well, I know they rushed him to jail. You got it, Brian? Watch this shit. That was a punch. Well, I do know that show It did seem like he did. in a sitcom and I accidentally hit him. It was like a fake bar fight in a sitcom. Yeah? Yeah. What? Come on. hey, go right here I said,

50:46 You can see him glue it down and shit? Can you take the Rick Ross off his knuckles? We have a nonprofit now, too, freewayliteracy.org. Yeah. fired up but really what the fuck is going on behind the scenes? and just exposing that whole Fannie Mae, with some giant real estate scandal. And the lady went to jail. Yeah. joe i think that i think that also you got to look at what type of vote maybe on the national level

54:32 Arnold got in there you know, Look how New York City was cleaned up. 20,000 people and pick who we want. That's fine. You've got great stories, and your life is fascinating. Absolutely. I'm not bullshitting. And when people get to know you, they'll know the same thing. And then from there, any speech you're ever going to do somewhere, You got your own Freeway Ricky radio show.

56:55 markets yeah but the big wheel market even people who have like nice cars they don't buy the big What is, like, the legit lifespan for spinners, Brian? You know, and then next week it's big wheels again. And then it's the medium wheels. just crazy like what the fuck are you doing with your car this isn't this isn't even a car anymore No. Yeah, I've watched them

58:51 Yeah, you got to be from the middle of the country for that. No. Yeah, no one's got it. Yeah, lithium is a scarce element. Look at this motherfucker. I mean, it looks like he's been pumping up, doesn't he? Look at the cigar. They had a yard that was right up next to a lake. He was just so casual about his dick hanging out. You know, we can do whatever we want to do because we got all the guns.

1:01:35 And everybody else that gets in my way. No. I saw the first one. Was it any good?pendables 2? No, I didn't see it. Did you? No. But the same characters, like today. When you watch TV, everything that's on is for them. So what is the average person? All right, Brian, take a guess before I hit enter. Median age was 28 in 2012. Not young, but not old either.

1:04:01 that's why everyone crazy was doing drugs and listening to Jimi Hendrix and fucking all that shit. no more anything else stop it people were taking all kinds of crazy shit that was legal at the time. The Mexican Coke is different. Isn't that ridiculous? It's sharp. But when I drink them, and then I'll pour a lot of coconut oil on it Soda's pain-free.

1:06:28 Tell him to stop smoking. Another rap? That's why he has a song called Dice Pineapples. How the fuck did this guy get so successful with his dick? You're fucking nuts. Yeah. Yeah, maybe they did that, too. Nah. And I say, okay, well, we just spent $100,000. No, he's talking about opening week. All of them. How many do you have to sell before you go gold?

1:09:45 all practice that that method really yeah well it kind of makes sense you know look if you if you Sure, please. You could be an author. thought a motherfucker could rap about ice cream and i would think it was fun it's all depends on Yeah. You would have to be unbelievably good. i do it no probably not but is it possible that someone could be so good at rapping that they

1:12:18 He just walked past. Who the fuck can do that? He's not that good at all, which is really interesting. one of the things that you said right yep yep yep i mean that's so weird you're in a club And so the rapper and they all sitting in VIP and they played on the radio. And he had just talked to the kid before the song came on and was telling him how hot he was.

1:14:33 You just bring it up very factually. You know, when I had my life sentence in prison, one of the things that I committed myself to was getting out of prison. These guys been helping me out. Let's do it. Let's do it let's do it version of it where he's tightened it up and made like you know like just even put it to the next Yeah. Just that. And I saw what you're doing on your website as well.

1:17:36 I want to let the people know because I believe that just like you're doing, there's so much bullshit out here that I want to cut through the bullshit you know, we got, we got to change it to, to where you are a star. Everybody's a star and everybody That's a beautiful idea on paper it have to fail before it can be reinvented in a more productive manner

1:19:56 especially if you have a prescription but even if you don't have a prescription you can walk in a Cling, cling, cling. You know, there's a i what crazy kids do that's what kids do then you pull your car out there and you see zombie kids because that stuff really mess you up. They can't take it. Yeah, it is pretty fucking pathetic. Yeah. What kind of shit?

1:23:10 Oh, God. Is it like homemade alcohol? Pull the muscle, get hurt on the football field. But then they would give you like a ibuprofen. cell phones you can get you can get anything in jail that you got on the street if you got money. Are you serious? Yeah, Madden 07. instantaneously like he just that's funny yeah you in jail? He said it like it just happened instantaneously.

1:26:00 Probably like $5. No, they just send it to your books or say for instance, the guy in the kitchen who cooks, Contracts. In Goodfellas, they had like a whole apartment in jail. Yeah, you can get a special mattress. And, you know, just a going away party. Snooki got punched in the face. And you essentially, I bet you are. Crazy. was like well i'm not real motivated you don't have much money wow so i'm not really said that to you yeah he told me that he really said that to you i'm not real motivated you don't have much money wow so i'm not really said that to

1:30:25 it's amazing how uh the whole thing transpired and the fact that you didn't know how to read Yeah, right. And then I would hand it to whoever was with me and tell them to read it and then ask them, well, what do you think about this contract? want to hear and they don't question right and they and they can handle things for you too. Yeah. I don't know if I would have, you know.

1:32:59 You know, they're going to follow in my footsteps and my older brother And they can't even wrap their head around what it is like to grow up where no one else can read. No, the hoe was the girl. The hoe was the girl, you know, because we stayed on Figueroa, so. Wow. Where I was growing up at? That was one of the things that they were really fascinated about me lasting so long in the drug business is that my neighbors allowed me to do it.

1:35:45 Whoa. before i started selling drugs her daughter used to be on pcp and it was all strung out but I mean, how did you avoid the normal pitfalls? time man when when a certain set of the christrips and Bloods would get into it, because for the first time that we ever saw man it was crips and blood selling drugs on Something drug-related, wasn't he? Yeah, that's what I had read.

1:38:19 I don't know. I got the boot marks in my back, you know, where they stomp me. yeah and it was um it was one of the first times but then the rodney king one was like a recent one Now they got guys in South Central that got little cameras that they strap to their chest and walk around with it. I was with, that's my police camera. That's it? Why is it that much?

1:41:15 there's no video at the circle k the security camera does not show him or the guy there there's There's some sick motherfuckers out there. They were both from Mexico. It's not everyone, sure. And it just is what it is and and i think the ones like the serial killer guy you know and the the ones like uh the guy who Wow. to the comedy store and sold out the main room in 20 minutes.

1:43:58 That's how crazy packed it was. But everyone said They're just, reality of when you put that image out how it creates fear-mongering not only amongst the cops and i was listening to nwa while i was on i was on a stair Come on, pull up your pants. Look at his underwear. The best. What do you have to do to be the best? Yeah. write his own music is there a lot of rappers in jail that are talented guys that are stuck oh yeah

1:47:36 That beard does look like Ali G in The Dictator. Even if it's not fake, who cares? podcast thinking that it's Rick Ross, the rapper, you've been misled. This is the real Rick Ross Stole his name? Rick Ross Rolling Stone, you can search it right now. searching for him automatically see the number one news thing is an interview with you. Show them Rick Ross is you. So people that are searching for him automatically see the number one news thing

1:49:56 It's definitely bizarre. not enough he had he went and got a fake beard if you find out that beard is fake that is so crazy That's how you do it, I guess. What you use. Damn. Look at this. fool's face oh wow this is not just like the the the spray on i've never seen this this is like It looks so weird. You're better off the way you are. how a person can go from being a tennis player to selling drugs almost overnight.

1:54:04 I believe that we definitely need educating. We expect to be we expect the head with flashlights, had drugs planted on you by the police, could I be able to rationalize All these things shaped me for who I am today, talking about sending me back i was like like, send me back for a year. We started out at the same time. God damn. And the guy is intelligent this guy graduated

1:57:58 You know, where if something goes wrong, he knows how to fix it. there's no manufacturing jobs you know they send all our jobs overseas i mean if you want to be a Once we end the demand, then the suppliers will automatically go away because they're not going to be standing around holding drugs that nobody wants. his drug isn't only the money. It's just how do we get people to aspire that high?

2:00:50 i mean they don't have any responsibility i i think that if you allow a magazine to put a guy If you're putting out records, Wasn't that a cop killer? But you, you, you, you forget the other part of it, which is, I mean, they're crime riddled they're drugged they're drug uh infested and then essentially they go out and There's an industry involved in even making sure that people continue to commit crimes,

2:03:30 we're not gonna give you a job where you can make eighteen thousand a year and then you won't commit Holy shit. for non-violent offenses for as long as they have yeah when the numbers are that high, it seems like that's a social academic. For black men between 25 and 35. Yeah. When they talk about these numbers like 15%, I think it's 50%. I mean, I don't understand unemployment rates.

2:06:42 There's no lithium in South Central, though. Joe Rogan, this is a country Because all people that are here without green cards are working for cash, essentially are slaves. You know, I mean, and how many people are slavery in other countries where they take people's passports away and they make them work on construction sites? A couple hundred years ain't shit.

2:08:26 Emancipation Proclamation in the 1860s, They just let it go. And then, this is the kicker. the Democratic National Convention again It just seems like to me, be to go to afghanistan with tanks you know you would send this cocaine worse than crack sales level. So it was just to pull crackheads off the street at will. They could just lock When you let big corporations get into prisons, you know.

2:11:27 Crazy. Actually, in the United States, in England, they started in the 90s. to work it off and then you would die in the mine that's essentially what That was a, is five years in a felony status wow so i mean so they're not you know too genius with it so what Yeah, absolutely. angry little person, The modern private prison business first emerged and established itself publicly in 1984 when

2:14:50 worse than slavery we need another one you have there's a benefit for you being able to work to It just makes you really wonder who's paying attention to any of this. And their life is just wasted. He said that there's no law before or he's in our documentary, Cracking the System. that i've never seen a law before or after it that was written that way without he they didn't do no

2:16:55 of the people who now are against it But what we did is we've been going around about what drove him to plant drugs and to actually take money because you know you come in Come in right before you release it. Blow was close. fan is that right okay okay great rapper i'll let him know yeah please do man i love that guy i have He could do it. and then you wait.

2:20:01 same type of He was giving us all the special effects. They turned Jeff Bridges back to where he was when he was like 20 years old. Like he could do anything, man. singer too yeah and the thing about our script the way it's written it's like a mix between traffic i'm saying like costa rica times picked up the spin article oh it's fascinating so we have the

2:22:54 fuck brian didn't you learn from the story the story is so important no you do you have a shit appreciate you having us on man and hopefully i continue to grow friends from from being on your People don't understand how silly it is. It's all there on freewayrick.com. The shit's everywhere. We'll accept you. Thanks to Onnit.com for sponsoring our podcast and Ting as well.

2:25:32 S3 is the one I got. Like I said, it's We will see you next week.