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Rapper Trick Daddy has responded to the rumors that he is responsible for releasing photos that allegedly depict fellow Miami rapper Rick Ross as a correctional officer. Trick Daddy says that claims he is responsible are attempts to create divisions in the South Florida Hip-Hop community. “We don’t deal with rap beef down here,” Trick told AllHipHop. “That’s not in our character. That’s not something we do. We’re the only city that ever gets compared to other people’s entire states. Whoever put my name in this is really attacking all of us.” Ross was told by an interviewer during a recent interview that Trick Daddy was responsible for the leaked photos. The rapper responded angrily and challenged his colleague, but Trick insists there's no bad feelings between the two. “I told Ross he needs to have better people around him,” he said. “He needs better publicists, so that he can avoid even being asked those type of funny questions. I been in this game for thirteen years, and anybody who’s ever listened to my music knows Trick Daddy is very smart. I know when somebody’s trying to use me and pull me into some s**t. But the people doing this need to understand what their words can do too. When you start talking about beef, and creating [situations] between people from the same hood, you gotta realize that that beef s**t can end with one man in jail and another man gone.” Though Rick continues to deny a past as a correctional officer, several of his contempories, including Trick Daddy, say a past in law enforcement isn't a bad thing. “So what if he [was],” Trick asked. “That just means he avoided something a lot of us in the hood haven’t, including me. I’m not proud of being an ex-con. Now that means I always got one foot in and one foot on a banana peel. I’m not proud of the things I did to land in that position.” [source]