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Freeway Rick Ross says he made up to $3 million a day selling cocaine. Now he says he owes $1 million to the rapper who took his name. He was sentenced to life. While he was inside, a former corrections officer started rapping as “Rick Ross” and became one of the biggest rappers in the world. In the video below, he tells Joe Rogan how he lost his own name. He was released in 2009 and sued. “How would you take my name and not have the decency to ask me first?” He says the rapper never even admitted it. “He tells people that he invented the name.” He lost on timing. The judge dated it from the first time a small radio station outside Miami played the rapper’s record. He had two years to sue. “I should have filed my lawsuit five days before I got out of jail.” He says the label had 15 lawyers and spent $1.5 million on the case. How much did they offer him? “Zero.” At the time, his mother was in her 80s and about to lose her house over $220,000. “I probably would have took $220,000.” Instead, he was ordered to pay their legal fees. The judge put it at about $1 million. “I owe them a million dollars right now.” $3 million a day. $220,000 for his mom’s house. $1 million owed for his own name. The case for the rapper: the courts sided with him, and Freeway sued too late. In May 2026, the rapper called him a “crackhead” and asked where the $3 million a day ever went. The case for Freeway: his name was famous long before the rapper’s. He says he would have settled for less than what the label spent on lawyers. So did the rapper steal Freeway’s name, or did Freeway just lose it in court?