Rapper Ross critically ill

Hip-hop star & South Florida resident Rick Ross is on life support at a Miami hospital after being found unresponsive at his Davie home this week, reports say.

Hip-hop star Rick Ross is on life support at a Miami-area hospital after being found unresponsive at his Davie home early Thursday morning, according to Davie police records and TMZ, a celebrity and entertainment news website.

“Rick Ross has been hooked up to a machine that’s taking over the function of his heart and lungs ... according to sources connected to the music mogul,” TMZ is reporting.

“We’re told doctors have put him on something called ECMO or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation,” TMZ reported. “It’s a technique used to oxygenate his blood outside of his body before it’s pumped back into his body.”

Davie police records show they were called to Ross’ home at 3:43 a.m. Thursday to assist Davie rescue responding to a patient “slobbing at the mouth,” according to a 911 caller, although police declined to identify the patient.

The rapper, who lives in Davie, was breathing heavily by the time emergency officials arrived at his residence at 3:43 a.m., according to the New York Daily News.

But George Gonzalez, an assistant fire chief in Davie, said that first responders never saw the patient at the address owned by Rick Ross, at the 10300 block of Laurel Road.

“The person who came to the door canceled us,” he said.

Gonzalez said he is not sure who the “combative patient” listed in the police call is. He said, however, he believed the police were called in to assist rescue personnel because whoever came to the door “was bothered by us being there.”

TMZ reported he was hospitalized. A source told the gossip website, meanwhile, that the medical scare was the result of a heart issue.

A family member of Ross, however, insisted to TMZ that the “John” rapper had not been hospitalized.

Fellow rap stars tweeted their support.

But rap rival 50 Cent kept his famous feud with Ross alive, posting a photo on Instagram early Saturday from a scene in Rocky IV. In it Russian fighter Ivan Drago snarls at a collapsed Apollo Creed. “If he dies, he dies.”

The 42-year-old Ross, whose real name is William Roberts, has suffered from seizures in the past, which was mentioned in the dispatch report.

Ross, one of the formative figures in the development of the Miami rap sound since his 2006 album on Slip-N-Slide Records, “Port of Miami,” has been through some high-profile happenings.

In 2013, the morning after he celebrated his 37th birthday, his silver Rolls-Royce was met with a barrage of bullets as he headed down East Las Olas Boulevard toward his home on Seven Isles in Fort Lauderdale. He was unhurt, but his car slammed into a two-story apartment building behind the Floridian restaurant.

In 2012, a body was found outside a home he owned in Miami Gardens, although Ross was never a suspect.

In 2011, he suffered a seizure on a Delta Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale to Memphis.

Ross revealed in 2016 that he adopted lifestyle changes en route to losing 75 pounds.

“I’m still losing weight, and now I’m starting to build hard muscle in places,” Ross, who once weighed 350 pounds, told Men’s Health at the time, according to People.

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