"Freeway" Ricky Ross and Nick Cannon are quite the strange match, but that's who the former drug kingpin picked to play him in his upcoming biopic. The two have apparently known each other for a long time, and expressed their admiration for each other in a new video.

"I've been wanting him to play my role since '96," said Ross. "We got hooked up, I met him I love his personality, know what I'm saying?"

Cannon added, "We family now, we are going to get this thing right. However long it takes, his story has got to be told."

Check out the video of the two exchanging praise above.