He was the crazy white kid in the hood. And from the moment he woke up, he jumped out of bed, dancing to no music, doing this crazy Riff Raff dance.
I was like, Oh my god, this is him, this is genuine. In a candid Simco Thanksgiving photo from , Riff Raff is there, braids and all; the following year, he attended the wedding of his younger sister, Claire, wearing cornrows, a teal polo shirt and a black baseball cap, amid a sea of gowns and tuxes. But he never outgrew it, he just [got] bigger and sillier.
Calm down…He lives in the world like the entire place is his stage. He fibs, for instance, about his age. Riff Raff is slippery on the subject of provenance, too. They sold CDs and went clubbing together. On the reality show, hosted by former Diddy manservant Fonzworth Bentley, a houseful of coarse-mannered goons competed to become proper gentlemen. Riff Raff got voted off after two episodes. Watching clips of him on the show, boisterous mugging shades occasionally into something resembling actual vulnerability.
After the episodes aired, Riff Raff grew accustomed to people recognizing him at malls, and the view count on his MySpace page shot up. I told him, stop trying to force it to people around here. They think you mocking them, they not taking you serious. He took to couch-surfing, pinballing among friends and relatives around the country.
All the while, he uploaded videos of himself freestyling. His shit was everywhere. It was like a sitcom. Haters care about that. After a few minutes, he springs to his feet. Can you get my car washed? In the car, there is nothing in the console but a one-dollar bill and an empty condom wrapper. After a while, I pick up Riff Raff and we head out to knock as many errands off his list as possible — he asks me to drive so he can catch up on text-messages. Our first stop is a restaurant in West Hollywood, where Milonakis has offered to introduce Riff Raff to a friend with purported legal expertise, to discuss the Spring Breakers lawsuit.
Through their representatives, both Franco and Korine declined to speak for this story. The restaurant where Milonakis and his friend are waiting is a tony, burnished-wood type of place, and assorted dining grayhairs lower their silverware and gawk as Riff Raff crosses the floor in a toxically green tank top and pink swim-shorts.
The Greatest Albums of All Time. After ten minutes of inconclusive ersatz-legalese, we leave. Our next destination is the Mad Decent headquarters, across town in Atwater, where Riff Raff has managed to book studio time. As we head east, he plays songs from Neon Icon. Some feature trademark nonsequitur-riddled rhymes; on others he simply croons a single refrain over and over.
Get Dr. Luke on my shit. Get whoever mixes Nicki Minaj to mix my shit. At Mad Decent, Riff Raff dons a pair of headphones and an engineer named Derek cues up a beat built around four piercing notes.
Riff Raff unfolds a piece of printer-paper scribbled with rhymes, amendments and cross-outs. He raps one or two lines at a time, then asks Derek to bring the beat back, picking up where he left off, rapping a line or so more, backtracking, and so on — an incredibly exacting way to make music that sounds so brazenly casual.
Stop asking me all the damn questions less we doing a cover shoot. Riff Raff grows more animated as he goes, swaying and swerving, throwing up his hands, tossing back his head. Derek drags his cursor back and lets the track bang. Riff Raff listens to himself rapping, and for what seems like the first time all day, he smiles.
Riff Raff Terry Richardson. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Riff Raff is the originator of a Twitter meme where he analogizes himself to being the rap game's version of a certain individual. These include:. Rap Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Big Hawk. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Riff Raff. Edit source History Talk 0.
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