Holy **** LOL


101Barz - Riff Raff freaks out during freestyle session and breaks his chain - YouTube

I hate that people like you are allowing this guy to think he's hot...

he is hot have u seen his YT numbers

Riff Raff has some terrible songs but 1/6 songs are really dope, plus the dude has so much swag probably the most original in hip hop right now

Check out the remix I did to Riff Raffs song "Break Away" it's on my YouTube channel at the bottom

Check out neato

A good pair of socks will take you a long way - Riff Raff




Dude is a fucking clown though

He sucks a whole lot of dong but I like listening to about 1 out of 6 of his songs, so you cud say I'm a fan.
"Live bird... shes dead" lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPd90BQ0bw

Riff's going nuts with this Vine thing.

Most ppl are quick to defend riff, but i appreciate ebro at least trying to pry some of riffs past

I've done enough digging into riffs past to believe he's full of **** myself but i can respect his commitment to the character

Riff Raff came across very well in this interview. The Hot 97 guy was really trying to stick it to him.
It's odd though how everyone can get behind Lil B yet Riff Raff is so vilified. They're the same act, just one's black.

except riff lied about dropping out of high school, and has legally changed his name. Riff Raff has never done anything besides be extremely vague about his up bringing, but since i am on un-fulfilling(can we just say sad?) crusade to expose riff i have found pictures and stories from people who knew him that don't at all a line with what he would have you believe.

I do see the double standard your referring too, not so much in comparison to lil b, but plenty of other character rappers who aren't at all genuine about their past. And it is totally unfair and unnecessary for me to target riff raff,exclusively.

Rofl, that's funny that you are investing so much time into exposing him for a phony.

Keep up the good work I guess.

it's an excessive way of pointing out the obvious.

im from Houston 2


Riff raff is just riff raff just a person.... that's likes to have fun Nuff said cant hate on that

But Riff Raff wasn't Riff Raff in the past. Yeah, it's a character - but before he was a goofball rapper he was a goofball semi-regular dude named Horst that couldn't really define himself. I think it's interesting trying to know about how he brought himself to this point in his life, but I don't blame him for trying to separate his current image from his younger years.

pretty much this

working tirelessly to "expose" someone's art by tying them down to whoever they used to be is whack and pretentious

working tirelessly is giving me all too much credit

as is calling his music art

it can't get any more pretentious than riff raff

> research somebody's past with intentions to "expose" what they do for fun today

> say someone's music shouldn't be called art

> call the person making said music pretentious

i'm not sure we'd ever make very good friends. you're too grumpy.

and to the guy who mentioned the rest of Three Loco and Andre Legacy.. word

Andre's the coolest cat with one of the best voices/personalities in hip hop, Mondrian is a party anthem. he put out a track with Riff a while ago

we're all friends on here i feel like right

not so much doing it for sheer enjoyment as it is feeling some weird moral obligation

im on a super high horse


when google pretentious you get "Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed" and that seemed like riff in a nutshell to me

I'm not going to read all 15 pages, but did everyone hear the criticism of Riff Raff on Hot 97? Of how he's trying too hard and how his lyrics are ****?

I don't think a lot of his **** makes sense, but it's definitely different, and I think it accounts for something.

This interview? Yeah Sparky posted it two pages back but I know you didn't read through the thread.

Thanks!

I definitely agree he's being a character. I don't know how I feel about it. it's not my culture to be offended by, but I honestly can understand why rappers everywhere would feel disrespected.
For all of the work white rappers such as Eminem have done to gain respect, it really is taking steps backwards to dress and act like Riff Raff does.

But he really doesn't care what people think and he raps so different! I don't know how to feel!

i need to give him a listen. i mean i love lil b soo yeah...

The idea of a caucasian regression in hip hop isn't whats bothersome to me, i mean used to be kreayshawns biggest fan for ****s sake, its the elaborate nature of riff raff and his hypnotic reality tv-style ploy that i find disconcerting. I swear I'm watching "laguna beach" but except instead of wealthy white girls with aspirations of being models or w/e bull**** it's affluent white dudes living out their fantasies of being hood rappers.

Who the hell are these rich dbags?


One of the guys in that video is mod sun, he's local and got booed for his whole set when i unfortunately had to endure his opening act one night

Good times, good times

he has a voice, but he needs to improve, he probably knows that

Well it's kind of part of the same idea.
I'm not saying all white rappers are making rap regress, I'm saying his take on the "rap" scene and his look is making him look like a joke.

This truly pissed me off. They're treating him like crap. Its so pathetic watching backpackers struggling to find something to diss in "new" music. Hip-hop needs artists like Riff Raff. Not everything has to be so god damned real and all that bull****, its about trying to just embrace new sub-genres of the genre you love, and if not, just don't give a **** and keep worshiping Illmatic as the best album in the world.

Characters like Riff Raff is healthy and a good reminder that not everything in music has to be concious and deep. Just smile, get in the vibe, dance, headbang, twerk, whatever. Im feeling him!

I don't think you are getting it though Riff Raff is claiming that he isn't a character. He's claiming to just be real and that is who he is when it is obviously not true.

Haha, well, THAT obviously aint true. He's a character. He must be. Maybe he's just to deep in it mayne haha

ill say again


Riff raff acts like riff raff all day every day that's how he is when hes taking a **** on thanksgiving dinner at a bar or social event or at the house with no cameras on him

Yeah that's what I was going to say.

I think that they wouldn't have been so hard on him if he was just like real as ****. But he honestly just comes off as a character so much that it's difficult for them as music lovers to feel him.

here's Riff Raff responding to what happened in the interview.

Entertaining enough, but his name says it all. Riff Raff

Well, he once served on a soap as a character who bashed James Franco in Spring Breakers and his pretentious and alienating GH character...on the same network.



While I do admire James Franco to an extent, his treating soap acting as "low brow" did cross a line. Soap acting is the most taxing television performance you're wont to find, with some actors performing in excess of 200 one hour episodes a year.

They work five days a week for, occasionally, all 52 weeks, and James Franco is wanting to demean that? Needless to say, they wrote him off, subsequently casting a solid actor and soap vet in his role to revive it.

But Riff Raff on OLTL? Gold. Solid gold.

I have a great respect for Soap actors/actresses myself in terms of the time they put in, but that doesn't necessarily account for the quality of the performances. And Soaps are very melodramatic in their nature, which is a pretty low form of storytelling, kinda like romance novels.

But Riff Raff is cool.

It

Aside:

As an actor, I've done comedy, which has received great laughs. I've done drama, which I prefer, which has received certificates and medals. And I've done melodrama (which is what soap acting is) which has been the most difficult of all acting.

Comedy, you wait for the words and your own sense of timing. It gets laughs. Drama, it's really difficult material you have to research, and may incite tears. Melodrama, which is soap acting, is the most difficult thing one could be asked to do as an actor. You have to call to melodrama, which is almost impossible to play, in addition to comedy and drama. As a performer, those actors have their work cut out for them.

Some of them aren't so good (see: Drake Hogestyn) but some are exceptional (see: Kelly Monaco and Roger Howarth)

He has a song out with Far East Movement!

Actually, I think it's FEM ft. Riff Raff.

Anyone hear it?