Rick Ross sat down for an interview with the Full Send Podcast and talked about his future plans, revealing that he’s preparing to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in 2024.
“For the rest of this year I’m getting ready, prepared mentally,” he said during the interview. “Next year I get prepared physically.”
“I really believe when I put my heart to something, I can do anything,” he said. “I make my mind up, it’s not really that big. I just gotta get it done. And what you gotta realize, if you notice I said 2024. So for the rest of this year, I’m getting prepared mentally, next year I get prepared physically.”
The rapper also joked that he would need someone to climb the mountain with him to carry his wings, HipHop DX reports.
The rapper, who briefly worked as a correctional officer in the 1990s, also talked about his experience in law enforcement. Ross said he worked as a correctional officer in Florida between 1995 and 1997, but he never worked in prisons.
“I didn’t really get to make it to the prison, because you gotta go through training and all that and I didn’t last long,” he said during the interview. “I lasted four months before they said…I was a little tardy.”
The artist was also asked to explain why he pursued the job.
“One of my big homies had just got in trouble, and a lot of people…a lot of things were going on. He just suggested it,” he said.
But Ross hated the job.
“Anything you gotta really do, you f**king running and jogging,” he said, adding that the “horrendous” paycheck amounted to “500 bucks like every two weeks.”
The 46-year-old considered a career as a firefighter after his unpleasant experience in law enforcement. As he now looks back at his firefighting ambition, which didn’t pan out, Ross cracked jokes.
“You would probably burn like a f**king piece of chicken,” he said on the Full Send Podcast while imagining what he would have looked like as a firefighter.
The “Hustlin'” rapper touched on several other topics during the interview, including his beef with 50 Cent which he said is now sorted out.
“You know, I only rap beef with people with more money than me, and I guess that’s why I never rap beef,” the artist added.
Ross also talked about his working relationship with Drake. He said it was a woman he was dating who first inspired him to listen to more of Drake’s music.
“I remember like it was yesterday, but she was a cool, fly chick so I was like, ‘Play some of his music.’ It was most definitely one of them early [ones]. … Maybe the next time or two I was in the studio with Wayne, I met [Drake] and it was just genuine. He was just a cool young n***a,” Ross, who has since collaborated on several songs with Drake, said, according to Complex.
Speaking about Kanye West, another one of his close friends, Ross defended the artist from public criticism.
“He not losing his mind at all, because if you felt he was losing his mind now, it would’ve been lost 15 years ago, if you felt like that,” Ross said. “I’ve never felt like that. Homie’s always been a genius. He going through his thing with his family.”
