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Kitty Pryde & Riff Raff – Orion’s Belt Video.

Things move awfully fast these days, especially when it comes to music and the internet, and if you blink you might miss something awesome.  Case in point, Riff Raff’s rise to internet superstardom.  Sure, it’s not really a “new” thing to get famous via Youtube (Justin Bieber, Odd Future, hellloooo?), but Riff Raff has a certain swagger that cannot be denied.  He’s wacky and wild, he’s funny, he’s downright entertaining!  You might recognize him from the MTV series From G’s To Gents, or Worldstar Hip Hop, where he has been posting videos since 2005.  After his stint on the reality competition, he continued to grow his army of fans, boasting hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, and nearly 180,000 Twitter followers.  Riff Raff was previously affiliated with Soulja Boy, the “original viral rap superstar’s label SODMG.  Last month, Riff Raff announced he would be signing a three million dollar record deal with Diplo’s Mad Decent Records.  Yesterday, Soulja Boy threw an EPIC FIT, which I could write an ENTIRE blog about, but instead I’ll just link you to the stories.  (For the lazy: Riff Raff got sick of being on Soulja Boy’s back-burner, realized he never actually signed to SODMG, realized that Diplo is a much better option, and went over to Mad Decent, commence Soulja Boy’s new dance: The Butthurt Shuffle*.)

Riff Raff has been KILLING IT with his music videos (Check out Time, Jose Conseco, and Riff Raff’s group Three Loco (fyt. Dirt nasty and Andy Milonakis)- NEATO) and will be dropping a full length album on Mad Decent in January 2013.

Kitty Pryde: same story, different gender.  Tumblr-famous teen Kitty Pryde first got the official co-sign from VICE last month in the article Kitty Pryde is Our New Favorite Tumblr-Wave Rapper.  I’d be full of sh*t if I didn’t admit her music is fun, and as VICE put it, “she’s a much sharper, self-aware, suburban high school version of Kreayshawn.”  Her video for Okay Cupid, posted on her tumblr (where else?) caused a momentary melt-down on the social media site.  Truly the Rap Game Taylor Swift.  Kitty mentioned Riff Raff in her song Justin Bieber, and a week later he was flying down to to Daytona Beach to shoot a video for a song they recorded that the weekend.  VICE footed the bill, and placed the video on Noisy, their music channel.

Here what Noisy had to say about Orion’s Belt:

“Music is all about bringing people together—especially when those people are capable of virtually crashing internet servers with the snap of a Twitpic. Noisey teamed up with Kitty ‘Rap Game Taylor Swift’ Pryde and Riff ‘Rap Game James Franco’ Raff in Daytona Beach for ‘Orion’s Belt,’ the new cut off of Kitty Pryde’s recent acclaimed EP, Haha, I’m Sorry. Cavorting around a beachside carnival, the dynamic duo gets into some (surprisingly) good, clean fun in a video that will inevitably be referred to as ‘Rap Game That-Last-Scene-In-Grease’.”

http://www.bangstyle.com/2012/06/kitty-pryde-riff-raff-video/

V EXCLUSIVE! RIFF RAFF TELLS ALL ABOUT HIS FALL OUT WITH SOULJA BOY AND SODMG.

Twitter can put a rapper's business into the public eye in a matter of seconds. These days hip-hop cats are more likely to fire off at each other on social media over private meetings. Look what happened between Soulja Boy and Riff Raff in the last 24 hours. The two wild boys seemed to be on good terms over the past year. They've recorded songs and videos together and the former G's to Gents contestant repped SODMG pretty damn hard (pause). It wasn't until Raff went public about his new record deal with lowkey-producer-turned-household-name Diplo that Soulja Boy began a series of Twitter disses against his former "artist." We were shocked to see this very public fall out occur. Late last night, after a photo shoot, we hopped on the phone with Maddecent's newest signee for the full story.

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VIBE: Obviously, the world Twitter world went crazy yesterday when they saw you and Soulja Boy going at it. What happened, bro?

Riff Raff: Well actually, I thought everything was cool because like it's been three, four months since Diplo hit me up and we were talking about [collaborations and a signing], and today it was just revealed that we sealed the deal. I haven't been putting SODMG with my name in the past five months. I took it off my Twitter and my YouTube, stuff like that, but me and Soulja Boy would still randomly talk to on the phone, or whatever. I was just in Vegas, and everything was cool, and I was 'Hey, I'm doing this stuff with Diplo, but I could still do shit with you too,' so you know everything was supposed to be still cool. So that was just was at the Electric Daisy Festival, and we were talking and we were supposed to meet, and he said to come through, we can knock something out, work on some videos, all this shit.

So I called him and he's not answering. My manager and my other man, who's done multiple videos for him, said 'Hey Soulja Boy unfollowed you on Twitter.' And I was like 'Nah, I just spoke to him, everything is cool. Everything is cool.' And then I hadn't heard anything from him [for the rest of the day]. So all of a sudden today I get a phone call from my people at FUSE TV asking me about this whole Soulja Boy thing and they're telling me that he's putting me on blast on Twitter, and I'm like 'No way.' So I go on there to check, and I'm like 'Okay...let me see where this is going, because the last time I talked to you...everything was cool.' You weren't upset about the Diplo situation. Everything was fine. So I started thinking, maybe someone said something and pissed him off or somebody hacked his account, whatever!

There were multiple, multiple things, slandering me, saying I'm a coke head, and I'm like 'This is some animosity. What's he so angry about?' He didn't even get that mad when Lil' B had stopped--when Lil' B had stopped pushing SODMG and he didn't even get mad about that, so I'm thinking he's playing a game now, and he's treating me like I ain't fully in the game yet. There was a lack of promotion with Soulja Boy [involving certain projects with him], and that's just like with anything, if you have a job or anything, if somebody's not treating you properly, whether you in a relationship, or anywhere in life, if they're not treating you right, you gonna go find it somewhere else, or go with your other options where there is more money, it's as simple as that. And I understand that, so I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, but he was coming at him with animosity, I'm like 'Damn! Soulja Boy, why you mad at me?' You never did anything to me, I never did anything to you, but I would never expose you not doing anything for me, but now that you're saying [all this online, now] I will say something like 'Yeah, you right!' You gonna tell people that you never did anything for me? You damn right! [Soulja] never did anything for me. Like how would you feel if an MVP franchise type player ended up on your "label?" You can only judge how good you're going get treated by how that person has treated other people or their main player, especially by the main player. That'll be like LeBron James going around in big labels, with Versace on everyday, driving around in big cars, getting picked up in helicopters, that makes you go, "Damn! I wanna be on that team! They're popular over there!"

So if he's saying that I'm this and I'm that, I didn't do this, he was never in SODMG, and I'm claiming him--I haven't been claiming you or SODMG for the last three to four months, so what are you talking about? So I was like fuck it because I don't want to be promoting somebody who's bad-mouthing me. I dropped multiple videos. I dropped so many videos. I would drop a video, and he [would act like he didn't even care]. On that episode--my manager shot it for me--that episode where he was giving me the chain, I mean even Tyler, the Creator] was in there--he didn't even include my name as a link on the YouTube.

Why did Soulja Boy say that the chain was fake? That part I didn't get because we all saw in the video that he gave it to you, and today he was saying it was fake...

Exactly. On his YouTube page, he has erased every last video that had me in it.

That's crazy. So Riff Raff, is there honestly something that happened to cause him to flip out?

The video that had me, him and Tyler, which he gave me the chain, had like close to 2 million plays, and he erased that video and my name wasn't even on the title, he didn't put my name in the title. I have no idea. He wasn't doing anything for me, he wasn't helping me. He would randomly tweet me, and sometimes he would tweet me to get on the phone to deal with shit, but then he would...

My manager did plenty of videos for him and those were my people [helping him out], and then he wants to go and unfollow me and him on Twitter. I can't read this dude's mind. I'm not going to talk down or slander him even though he did that to me, but that's fine, I don't care. All care about is how [I'm doing] in my world. With the Diplo situation, that did it for me. I'm not hurting anybody. If he wants to say I didn't help him, that's cool, fine.

How did you initially meet Soulja Boy and get down with SODMG?

I've always been a fan of his, and shit like that, from way back, I've always liked his music. It's cool if he's mad, I don't care, but we linked up through Twitter and I think it was a couple of years ago, and then we was just like...I don't know...we just exchanged Twitters back and forth and then one day, we followed back and forth, and it was like--and I was still new to this shit--'Yeah, what's up with SODMG, [I want to be in it]", and he was like "Cool". And you can see it in that video where he's like 'And here's the newest, welcome my newest artist'

Yeah! Soulja Boy made it seem like you guys met in real life! Were you guys actually hanging out in real life at that point?

At the very, very beginning, no, I was in Baltimore, but when I came to California, I think it was actually January 1 of this year, and we actually started kicking it, but we ever really super hung out, but we recorded a few songs, and that Versace song.

Was Soulja Boy somebody you considered your friend, or was it more so just business?

Well, I was always a low-key [acquaintance, I guess,] because people would always--like I said, you gotta look at other people's situations with them, is anybody else running around with them signing deals? Is anybody else shining? But I'm not the type of person to say that somebody owe me something. I'm the type of person that with my experiences, you keep promoting me; I'll keep promoting you, pushing you. I could make the money on my own. So our friendship never got into a...I mean I don't want to speak for anybody else's relationship, but he never did anything for me. If he felt like he did something for me, then fine, whatever, thank you, whatever it is you did, that's cool. I'm not going to say this, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to bring up his personal, or false information, talking about doing cocaine and stuff. That's his problem if he wants to take it there. I'm not tripping. We never got into a full friendship like that. I was around him. But I'm just that kind of person; I'm like that with everybody. Whatever. It's all good.

So all those times you were with him, the vibe was cool? There didn't seem to be any animosity. You guys would smoke, hang out, record music together, it was a cool vibe at least?

Yeah no, like there was never no animosity. Like I said, a few days ago we had just spoke about it, at midnight, in Vegas at Daisy, we had a meeting, him, me and Max, and said everything was cool. And I was like, "You know I could still push you and push SODMG, but I'm over here doing this thing with Diplo because that's what's making the money, but I could still bump with you too, like I'm not tripping". The fact that he's burning bridges...I'm not mad about it, because at the end of the day, it is all business.

It was just so shocking to see him so pissed off. 

I have no idea. Because when Lil' B stopping pushing SODMG and stopped promoting them, and I haven't seen him do anything with SODMG in the last four months, so for him to bring that up today? He's bringing that upon himself. I sometimes had [more views online] than him.

http://www.vibe.com/node/91228

Clique Up ​ Soulja Boy

Clique Up ​ Soulja Boy

Vinny Cha$e on Cheers, Entourage, & Marc Jacobs.

I see you were shooting and directing behind the scenes of the music industry from 2004-2008. Who are some of the artists you worked with and are you still directing videos today?

-Most of the people I worked with were artists like Juelz Santana, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Franchize Boys (when they were doing their thing in the South), a bunch of people. I was also on the ‘Up Close and Personal’ tour doing a lot of behind the scenes, documentaries, stuff like that. Now I still do directing. I direct some of my own videos, material for Soulja Boy; I haven’t stopped directing since I started rapping.

What made you switch from camera man to rapper?

-I mean it really didn’t, it was just the influence of my friends. Them telling me it’s possible, I really didn’t think it was something that I can learn to do, but I was obviously wrong. Just seeing people like Lil B and Wiz who rap and just have so much fun with it, after a while it was clear to me that it was something that I can actually do. 

So you just did a mix tape with Soulja Boy. How was that for you and how did it come about?

-I mean it was pretty dope for me. That’s my homie, I’ve been messing with him since like last year, we did our first song and we’ve been friends after that. We always had a plan to do something together. So I flew out to LA to his penthouse and made the album in like five days, then went back to NYC to drop it. 

Who are you inspired by? With both music and fashion.

-I mean musically most of my inspirations are rappers from the past, there were no artists who just came out that inspired me in anyway. Rappers like Biggie, Jay-Z, Rakim, and Slick Rick  inspired me in a major way. Especially Slick Rick, I always liked the way he painted visuals with his story telling in his raps. I just feel like the 90’s had more taste, they actually cared about music more back then. Now with fashion, I’m inspired by actual designers. Like Marc Jacobs and people of that sort. I’ve actually been watching Marc for a long time, before I was doing music or even designing. 

So speaking of Marc Jacobs. How did you get Marc to be featured in your ‘Urban Outfitters’ video?

-I mean I know him along with some other top designers, I don’t want to have to name drop but I’m in the game. So I know a few people when it comes to fashion like Dee & Ricky, Jeremy Scott, etc. They’ve been apart of me since like my early career, supported me before I was even anything. So I’m always appreciative for that. 

On HBO’s show ‘Entourage’ the lead character’s name is “Vinnie Chase”. Is there any connection there?

- I mean obviously but it’s not like I’m running around trying to be a character. I just felt like I came out of an entourage, since i was with the Dipset entourage, and I was like damn how can I get out of here to make my own lane. So I felt like I related to the name in a way where I can come into the game through a perfect angle. I am a fan of the show, but once again I’m not basing my career on the actual character. You’ll never hear me mention anything from the show in my raps EVER, I tried to draw that line early, I mean I didn’t want people to think I was rapping about Turtle.

How often do you get chased? Did you get chased last night after the SOB’s performance?

-Yeah man it was crazy like just getting into the venue was hard. So many people were trying to walk in with me. Towards the ending I actually just stayed until everything was all over but they still caught me. When I was trying to leave they were all trying to catch me before I got in the cab, it was crazy. It was the first time I ever experienced something like that, I mean the line was down the block, the support was crazy so I appreciated the love. 

What’s the concept behind your group ‘Cheers Club’? When did you create the group, and who’s down?

-I mean we created it as a self contained house, it’s my director Kid Art, my man Cartier Court, and myself. It’s a group that we founded last year, it’s a design house, fashion house, film house. Everything is done in house, we use beats from outsiders occasionally but with everything else, it’s done in house. #CHEERS.

Lastly, I see you have the same four finger ring 2Chainz happened to get locked up for. Have you ran into any problems for the ring yet?

-I definitely got into problems because of that, my lawyer almost got arrested. I flew into LA with him everything was good I went out to Dope Couture, did some designs for some hats that are coming out. And the funny thing is the owner of Dope Couture told me that 2Chainz actually got locked up for the ring so I knew that I couldn’t slide back with it. So I gave it to my lawyer and told him to mail it to me, but he forgot to mail it and actually forgot to take it out his bag as well. So they took it from him at the airport and almost locked him up, if he wasn’t a lawyer he probably would’ve went to jail.

http://www.thesource.com/articles/224548?thesource-prod=imv43rfloepqkqflmfl5oi51d4

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