Rick Ross has several luxury cars in his possession, including a Lamborghini Murcielago, a Ferrari 458 Italia, a Mercedes-Benz S-Class, a Mercedes-Benz CLS, a hydrid Fisker Karma, a 2004 Maybach that's worth $55,000 and a 2006 Infiniti QX56 that's worth $30,000, but his Rolls-Royce is by far his most interesting vehicle.
On January 28 of this year, Ross demolished a fence and smashed his silver Rolls-Royce into an apartment building in a wealthy, upscale neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He and his female passenger were visibly shaken but uninjured in the crash.
The rapper was driving home from his late-night birthday celebration when "dozens" of bullets barreled in his direction, police said. In his attempt to safely get away, he crashed the Rolls-Royce. Remarkably, the vehicle had no bullet holes, but several structures in the area, including a restaurant and a nail salon, were pierced by the gun shots.
The unidentified suspect had pulled up beside Ross and started firing at him, but he fled the scene before law enforcement arrived.
Ross and fellow rapper Curtis James Jackson III, better known as 50 Cent, are embroiled in a feud that dates back to 2009. They habitually use their songs and lyrics to diss each other.
Fiddy took to Twitter after the accident to voice his reaction.
"Hahaha fat boy hit the building?" he tweeted. "lol it looks staged to me. No hole's in da car."
Despite the fact that officers found 18 bullet casings at the crime scene, Jackson wasn't convinced.
"It was just firecrackers but who ever lit them [is] in trouble cause the man [expletive] near had a heart attack," he wrote.
Jackson has his own violent history with automobiles. He sat down with Forbes earlier this year for an exclusive interview and talked about the events that led up to his career in the music industry.
According to the business mag, Fiddy's first two sets of wheels almost got him killed. In 1994, a 19-year-old 50 Cent dropped $53,000 on a dark gray Toyota Land Cruiser. He had earned the cash by peddling drugs on the streets of the Big Apple. A stranger confronted him a few months later in a bad part of the city and demanded to know where Black was. Apparently, "Black" was a known gang member who had violent and dangerous tendencies, and the dealership had sold Fiddy a vehicle that closely resembled Black's. When 50 Cent said he didn't know, his interrogator drove off and left him unharmed. He then traded in his ride for a white Mercedes-Benz 400SEL. Unfortunately for him, the sedan garnered a lot of attention, and he was once held up by a couple of armed thieves. He managed to escape and ridded himself of that vehicle, too.
By the turn of the century, Jackson left his life of drugs and crime behind and devoted his time and energy to making music. He resorted to driving around in a 1992 Dodge Caravan that had a malfunctioning air conditioning system.
50 Cent worked with Dr. Dre and Eminem and released Get Rich or Die Tryin' in 2003. The album sold 872,000 copies in its first week and eventually sold 8 million copies in America. Jackson's debut effort is one of the most commercially successful hip hop albums ever. He followed up with three more albums and has achieved sales of 30 million during his career.
With his astronomical fame and success, 50 Cent was able to purchase several big-ticket items, including a Mercedes-Benz C240 for his grandmother, who raised him. He also bought a few vehicles for himself. In Los Angeles, 50 Cent has a 2011 Range Rover, a 2012 Bentley Mulsanne and a 2005 Lamborghini Murcielago that's worth $300,000. He originally painted the Murcielago gray to match his Land Cruiser, but he recently gave all of his California cars metallic blue paint jobs. Fiddy has two $200,000 bulletproof Chevrolet Suburbans in his hometown of New York, as well.
* Rick Ross Rolls-Royce image courtesy of Daily Mail
* 50 Cent Range Rover image courtesy of Celebrity Carz
* 50 Cent Lamborghini image courtesy of This is 50
