#2163 - Freeway Rick Ross

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Good to see you again, my friend.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:13)

Man, it's been a long time.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

It's been, yeah, like nine years. Yeah, we were talking about it.

It's been a while.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:20)

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

For people who don't know.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:21)

I've been waiting.

I was like, you know, I dialed your number, and it wasn't working no more. I was like, okay.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

I've had about eight different numbers since then.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:32)

He'll call me. I said, he'll call me.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Yeah, for people who don't know, the real Rick Ross is not a rapper, just like your shirt says.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:40)

And you know who inspired that shirt?

Joe Rogan (0:43)

I think I did.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:44)

You did, you did. And you don't even know the whole story.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

What's the story?

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:49)

Well, you know, after that day, you told me that I needed a shirt, right?

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Yeah.

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:53)

You know, I was really homeless then.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Really?

Freeway Ricky Ross (0:56)

You didn't know that part of the story. Well, I didn't go around like, hey man, I'm homeless.

So I was technically homeless. I was staying in a bacon apartment, me and my old lady and my two kids. And when I told you that I was doing bad, you was like, man, you need a t-shirt. And you know, I left the show, I was a little hot. I was like, damn, that motherfucker told me I needed a t-shirt and I'm fucked up, but he know I handle money. He know I'm a thinker, why he didn't help me? And so I'm walking down the street downtown and this kid come up to me and he was like, hey Rick, I heard you on Joe Rogan the other day. And I was like, yeah? He was like, yeah, and I got a t-shirt idea for you. I said, oh shit, another one of those motherfuckers.

And I said, what's your idea? And he said, the real Rick Ross is not a rapper. And I said, Corny is a motherfucker. But I kept an open mind, and I said, okay, let's do it. The kid did it. I go to him a couple weeks later, and he give me 100 t-shirts, and I sell a whole hundred the same day. And then something popped in my head and said, why don't you call Joe? That's when your number was still the same. And I called you, you called me to the show, and you put my t-shirt on.

And the t-shirt went crazy. My PayPal, cause you know, I ain't saw you since then, so I never got to tell you thanks for telling me to do a t-shirt, even though I was mad at you.

Cause I was like, why the fuck nobody helped me? You know, I was looking for somebody to come and say, hey man, here's a hundred thousand, see what you can do with it, a million dollars, see what you can do with it. That's what I was looking for when I got out of prison. I was like, somebody's gonna come and say, man, I know you can handle money, let's do something. So I was looking for that. I was not looking for a t-shirt. But, you know, in one of my favorite books, it might come through the back door. Don't look at the front door, look at the back door. So I did that. And when you put that t-shirt on, man, my PayPal went like this here.

And I was like, my old lady, she was like, man, that PayPal is going crazy. I was like, that motherfucker broke.

I said, go check the bank account. And she went and checked the bank account, man. It's like $18,000, $20,000 in there. And I was like, oh, my goodness, we finna get an apartment.

So my whole life changed from there. I took that money, and I did this. Wrote a book? I already wrote the book. I wrote the book in prison when I had a life sentence. You know, I wrote this book. This was kind of like my message to the world about what it takes to become a drug dealer, how you become a drug dealer. I wrote it for kids so they would know, if they started to be a drug dealer, what they was going to run into.

Joe Rogan (3:53)

Like a how-to manual.

Freeway Ricky Ross (3:55)

Like a how-to manual, because I said nobody ever wrote a book about...