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’.”
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