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Yo what's good evil streets fam y'all know the deal we back at it again shout out to every single member and subscriber for pulling up on the daily y'all the backbone of this whole operation the reason we still standing Anyone trying to push their music brand or business hit the line evil streets media at gmail.com we can make moves happen salute to everyone showing love through cash app and if you trying to support what we doing pull up to evil streets tv on cash app every dollar gets flipped right back into this thing aight let's slide into this street chronicle Ricky Donald Ross known in these streets as freeway rick came into this world January 26th 1960 down in Tyler Texas youngest of two boys his pops sunny Ross was an ex US army cook who ended up working as a pig farmer and sharecropper while his moms Annie Mae Maulden was out here grinding as a house cleaner Annie Mae's story was filled with struggle including a situation where she lost her eye after getting assaulted by her own blood her brother George Maulden when Ricky was only three years old his mother packed up and moved him out to Compton California chasing something better by 1966 they landed in South Central Los Angeles staying with Annie Mae's sister Bobby Joe Maulden and her husband George who worked for city sanitation the crib was chaotic as hell in a savage and bloody situation Annie Mae ended up shooting and killing George with a 38 caliber handgun this went down during a confrontation where George had just stabbed his wife Bobby Joe in the chest this early taste of violence and chaos became the foundation of Ricky Ross's childhood laying the groundwork for a life that would eventually collide with the drug game and the streets of Los Angeles during one of its most explosive periods Ricky Donald Ross known in the streets as freeway Ricky came up moving through South Central Los Angeles while getting his education in some of its most legendary hoods he started his schooling at St Lawrence of Brindessey Parish Catholic School in Watts a part of South Central known for its toughness and survival he later transferred to Dorsey High School located across from Baldwin Village a zone the locals called the jungles because of its maze like streets and packed urban setting Dorsey High got a solid list of alumni including NFL wide receiver Keeshawn Johnson TV personality judge Joe Brown Mike Love of the Beach Boys O.J. Simpson defense attorney Robert Kardashian and T Rogers founder of the Black P-Stone's gang who got famous in the documentary Bloods and Crips made in America Ross went to Dorsey the same time as singer Jodie Wattley who ended up becoming a Grammy winning artist while posted up with his mother near the intersection of Los Angeles Harbor freeway and I 110 Ricky earned the name freeway Ricky a tag that would follow him forever despite all the struggle in his environment Ross was nice at tennis during high school even becoming a championship player but his dreams got crushed when his coach found out he was illiterate causing Ross to drop out of school determined to find another route Ross later enrolled at Los Angeles Trade Technical College where he got on the tennis team and looked for a second opportunity to create a path for himself Ricky Ross's criminal journey kicked off in 1979 when he linked up with the freeway boys a local auto theft crew that same year Ross caught his first case leading to an arrest and a jail bid for auto theft this marked the start of a path that would eventually make him a major figure in the drug world by 1982 Ross got put on to cocaine by a homie attending San Jose State University on a football scholarship his first experience with the product came in the form of a $50 rock of free base seeing the play Ross and his day one Ali Big Lock Newell decided to invest in the growing cocaine market to get the bread together the duo stole a whip from the faculty parking lot of their old junior high school stripped it of its rims and sold them for $250 with this paper they copped an eight ball and eighth of an ounce of cocaine which they managed to flip for double the money by breaking it down into smaller pieces for resale at first Ross and Newell outsourced the time consuming process of cooking cocaine into crack to other people at the time crack cocaine which had just been invented in California was quickly blowing up for its strength and cheap price however their dependence on others for production didn't last long a local hustler known as Martin the Pimp showed them how to cook the powder cocaine into crack themselves cutting out middlemen and increasing their profit this knowledge would build the foundation for Ross's explosive rise in the drug trade as crack started to take over the streets of South Central Los Angeles Ricky Ross's climb in the drug game began when he and Ali Big Lock Newell partnered to get cocaine from Central America starting dealings with Nicaragua and Henry Corralas Ross claimed that their original plan was simple they wanted to make $5,000 and then get out however the business turned out way more profitable than expected and within six months their operation had blown up significantly seeing the potential in Ross and Newell's expanding enterprise Corralas connected them to his own supplier Oscar Danello Blandon Blandon was a Nicaragua exile and former director of wholesale markets in Nicaragua whose connections ran deep in the cocaine trade through Blandon the two young traffickers got introduced to Juan Norwin Menace's Cantorero another Nicaragua exile with an even more extensive network menace's known as Ray De La Drogue or the King of Drugs was already being watched by both the FBI and DEA his operations stretched across continents and he had built a reputation as a major player in the international cocaine trade this connection launched Ross and Newell into a level of drug trafficking that would soon flood Los Angeles and later the whole United States with crack cocaine permanently changing the social and economic landscape of inner city communities Ricky Ross revolutionized the cocaine trade in Los Angeles with the launch of his ready rock crack brand quickly rising to control the city's drug market his marketing skills combined with the product's cheap price and addictive quality allowed him to monopolize the trade in less than a year by using local crypt sets as distributors Ross built a massive network that covered South Central Los Angeles Compton and beyond Ross established numerous stash houses to store cocaine and ran five processing labs where the drug was cut or cooked often using the anesthetic cocaine he was also key in establishing the presence of crack houses in the area where users could buy and smoke the product right there by 1983 Ross had become the main supplier not only to distributors across Los Angeles but also to other wholesalers one of Ross's main strategies was offering cocaine on consignment this method allowed him to put potential dealers into business without requiring upfront payment thus expanding his network and power while locking in major profits once the product was sold this tactic also led to the dramatic drop in cocaine prices with the cost of a kilogram falling from $50,000 to as little as $12,000 under Ross's control in addition to his cocaine empire Ross diversified into selling firearms including handguns and assault rifles further feeding the violence and chaos that destroyed the communities where his product circulated by 1984 Ricky Freeway Ross transformed his Los Angeles based operation into a massive drug empire covering 42 U.S. cities his rapid expansion brought crack cocaine into fresh markets across Texas St. Louis New Orleans Kansas City Seattle Detroit Baltimore Miami Atlanta and even the Carolinas in New York Ross relied on members of Crippin blood sets to make this growth happen as these local distributors traveled to other cities searching for new markets this not only spread Ross's influence but also contributed to the nationwide spread of blood and Cripp gang culture to manage the flood of cash Ross invested heavy in real estate and legitimate businesses near the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles his acquisitions included an auto part store a laundromat and apartment complex and the Freeway motor in hotel ventures that also served as fronts to wash his drug money around this time Ross solidified his nickname Freeway which reflected his roots near the I-110 Freeway and his growing reputation as a trafficker of incredible proportions Ross's dealings with Norwin Menaceys a key supplier connected to the Medellin cartel brought massive shipments of cocaine from Miami to Los Angeles at the peak of his operation Menaceys reportedly transported 300 kilograms of cocaine per trip Ross's empire employed thousands of individuals and generated an estimated $2 million in daily revenue from crack cocaine sales a staggering achievement that highlighted his unmatched dominance in the drug trade by 1985 the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department had launched a criminal investigation into Ricky Freeway Ross's sprawling drug enterprise this marked the beginning of increased pressure on one of the nation's most infamous drug traffickers in October 1986 Ross faced his first major federal charge when the DEA in Los Angeles acting on information provided by dealer Michael Wingo accused him of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in St. Louis Missouri however the case fell apart due to insufficient evidence and the charges were dismissed undeterred law enforcement stepped up its efforts in January 1987 the Los Angeles Police Department joined forces with the Sheriff's Department to focus on Ross they formed the nine member Freeway Ricky Ross Task Force an elite unit dedicated solely to bringing down the kingpin the heat was on and Ross knew it the feds were closing in with wiretaps surveillance and informants flooding the system with intel by March 1988 Ross got busted trying to cop a kilo of cocaine the charge stuck this time and faced with a lengthy federal sentence Ross turned to his legal team to fight the case however in April 1989 he made a critical mistake trying to flee to Cincinnati Ohio to escape the federal charges he was captured days later and returned to Los Angeles federal custody this violation sealed his fate and in 1990 Ricky Freeway Ross was hit with multiple federal convictions including conspiracy to distribute cocaine he received a life sentence without the possibility of parole the king of crack had fallen hard and fast sent to the federal penitentiary in Sacramento California Ross spent nearly two decades behind bars watching from his cell as the empire he built crumbled and the streets of America dealt with the destruction his product had caused but Ross's story didn't end there in 2008 following decades of appeals and mounting evidence that he had been set up by corrupt DEA agents including Agent Louie Villarreal who later admitted to planting evidence and fabricating testimony against traffickers Ross finally caught a major break his case was reopened and in 2009 after serving approximately 20 years of his life sentence Ross was released from federal custody emerging a changed man determined to tell his story and expose the corruption that had imprisoned him for so long upon his release Ross became an author and speaker traveling the country discussing his rise and fall from drug kingpin to federal inmate he wrote books including The Godfather of Cocaine detailing his experiences in the drug trade and the federal injustices he witnessed and endured he founded the Anti Gangster Association to combat gang violence and youth crime while also advocating for criminal justice reform and exposing the systemic issues that keep communities trapped in cycles of poverty and violence Ross began speaking at schools and community centers sharing his cautionary tale with young people vulnerable to the same temptations that had consumed him decades earlier his message was clear the money the power the respect it all came with a price and that price was paid by entire communities not just him Freeway Rick Ross's legacy represents one of the most consequential chapters in American crime history his crack cocaine empire devastated inner city communities across the nation fueling gang warfare addiction and generational trauma that persists to this day while Ross himself profited from the misery of millions the ultimate cost was paid by those communities and Ross himself spent two decades in federal prison for his crimes however his post-prison redemption efforts and advocacy for criminal justice reform have added another dimension to his legacy today Ross stands as a complex figure whose story serves as a cautionary tale about the seductive allure of the drug trade and the hidden machinery of American criminal justice his rise from South Central poverty to cocaine kingpin and his subsequent fall imprisonment and redemption demonstrate how individuals can be shaped by their circumstances yet remain capable of change and growth Freeway Rick Ross will forever be remembered not just as one of the most prolific drug traffickers in American history but as a man who faced his demons paid his debt to society and emerged determined to warn others about the path he traveled his legacy is a powerful reminder that regardless of how far someone falls the possibility of redemption exists for those willing to seek it and that true strength lies not in the empires we build but in the lives we save and the communities we heal that's the real talk on Freeway Rick fam stay blessed stay informed and we'll catch y'all on the next one evil streets out