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Rick Ross taken ill twice in one day
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 17 October 2011
Rapper Rick Ross was forced to cancel an appearance at a college event in Memphis on Friday after having to receive medical treatment twice as he travelled to the gig.
On Friday afternoon, a Delta Air Lines flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Memphis was forced to return to base after Ross was taken ill. He received treatment from a doctor on the flight, and then from paramedics back at the airport who gave him what a spokesman called “advanced life-support care”, though that’s not thought to have included CPR, and the rapper was seemingly conscious and in good spirits by the time he returned to Fort Lauderdale.
He then chartered a private jet, and subsequently tweeted “Memphis here I come” and posted a video message from the second Memphis-bound plane to his website pledging to be at the university event, called Memphis Madness, by late Friday night.
However, in the end he didn’t make the gig. According to local network WMC-TV, the second plane carrying the rapper was also forced to land prematurely after Ross fell ill for a second time. According to local media, the rap man was then taken to a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama to receive additional treatment.
He was seemingly out of hospital by last night, with his DJ Sam Sneaker posting a photo of the rapper to Twitter with the line “the Boss is good”. Although it’s thought Ross had two seizures, it’s not clear exactly what caused the health problems.
