Rick Ross Beat Down Boss

Miami Rapper And Crew Beat Up Radio DJ

August 21. 2008

In what was not a fair fight, Miami rapper Rick Ross and four members of his entourage beat up a disc jockey named, DJ Vlad, for having said something about him he did not like. He blames Vlad for promoting the corrections officer story via his YouTube page, that leaked not so flattering interviews about Ross, hurting his street cred. The DJ has now filed suit against him for $4,000,000.

Really, if the police catch this one, Ross would face charges. It wasn’t a good idea and Ross is getting caught up in the hip hop industry's dangerous gangster image persona that has been the undoing of quite a few rappers (for further reference see Remy Ma, Shyne, Tupac and Biggie). Fight with your words and not your fists, as anything else is illegal and will get costly.

Furthermore, attacking people to shut them up never works. It just makes them angry and want to clown you even more. This was not the way to handle this and just like you as a rapper is entitled to say what you want, so is that DJ.

A friend of mine that lives in Miami as well has known Ross for years, as they come from the same area. She use to work for a major label. She views Ross more as a businessman than anything. She did not speak of him as some thug.

Personally, it is better to be a businessperson than a thug. Ross needs to be careful that this expedition doesn't land him in jail. Street cred or not, no one wants to go to jail.

DJ Vlad Files $4 Million Lawsuit Against Rick Ross Over Alleged Ozone Awards Beatdown

DJ Vlad filed a $4 million dollar lawsuit against Rick Ross in Federal Court in New York on Friday (August 15), claiming that the Miami MC orchestrated a "brutal attack" on Vlad (born Vlad Lyubovny) at the Ozone Awards in Houston last Sunday.

Vlad's YouTube channel, VladTV, recently featured an interview with the Clipse in which they discussed the controversy over recent claims about Ross' alleged former life as a corrections officer, which Ross has denied. It also linked to a widely distributed interview with incarcerated drug dealer "Freeway" Ricky Ross — whose name the rapper appropriated as a stage identity — in which Ricky Ross makes light of the MC; the link to the that interview has since been removed…

"Following a brief conversation between DJ Vlad and Ross in which Ross said, 'We got beef,' Ross' accomplices, who had surrounded DJ Vlad while he spoke with Ross, proceeded to strike and beat DJ Vlad in Ross' presence and without any protest on Ross' part," the suit says. The men then reportedly fled the scene and left Vlad laying on the ground "bleeding profusely" after one attacker shouted, "Yeah, m********, that's what you get."

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