Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers is a film about Disney girls gone wild who team up with James Franco to hopefully not eat spaghetti in filthy bathtub water. Franco plays the character he was put on this Earth to portray, Alien (irony!), a dreadlocked white boy rapper with a golden grill, loud clothes, and an unironic vocabulary that includes use of the word “dope.” He is not Riff Raff, a dreadlocked white boy rapper with a golden grill, loud clothes, and an unironic vocabulary that includes use of the word “fly,” at least according to Franco; he based the character on Dangeruss, another rapper. The real-life Riff Raff is none too pleased.
In a recent MTV story penned by Franco himself, he claims that the inspiration is actually a Floridian rapper named Dangeruss (who also appears on the soundtrack) — a move which has irked Riff to the point where yesterday he emailed out a missive titled “Why Is Franco Lying?”
Riff Raff’s email lists five similarities between himself and Franco’s character (namely: braids, colored beads, grill, rings, and colorful clothes) and says, “The storyline ain’t mine but no one on Earth can deny that James Franco’s image and appearance characteristics are Riff Raff all day.”
Hive hollered at Riff Raff to flesh out his side of the story. Asked why he thought Franco had decided to deny that his character is based on Riff Raff, the rapper said, “Even the Florida rapper [Dangeruss] says that Franco isn’t dressed like him in the movie. All I want is credit for his image and I’m confused why a superstar actor with millions of dollars would steal and deny credit from a new upcoming rapper like myself who hasn’t even dropped an album yet. What a f*ckin’ asshole — I would never do any bullshit like that if I was in his position.” Then in signature Riff Raff patter he added, “Diamonds glisten…wood wheel twistin’ with the Versace optical vision.” (Via)
In Spring Breakers, James Franco’s Alien says, “Rocks glimmer…oak door contortin’ with the Macy’s glasses.” See? Definitely not based on Riff Raff.
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I want to speed up time so I can see this movie.
First time I ever heard of this guy was when I saw him rapping on that Kitty Pryde video
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of course “rapping” may be a stretch. IT’s literally the worst attempt at rapping I’ve ever heard.
First time I heard of him was when he was on The Champs podcast. He was a fucking mess.
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The only thing that picture of Riff Raff is saying to me is “Meth. Not even once.”
Franco can say what he wants, but it look obvious to me his character is basically Gary Oldman’s character from True Romance.
Josh Kurp, are you fucking stupid? Learn the difference between dreadlocks and cornrows before you right an article and make yourself sound like an uneducated, moronic piece of shit. Dreadlocks are matted hair, KNOTS if you will, that can not be taken out once fully matured. Cornrows are BRAIDS, which can be taken out without damaging your regular hair. Obviously Franco is copying Riff Riff’s style. I’ve been a fan since he was on G’s to Gents 2. He is a good white boy rapper and funny as fuck. His rhymes are clever and don’t talk about money, ho’s, and guns. He and his style is fresh and original, there is no way Franco can deny he didn’t get some inspiration from Riff.
They both look stupid on a white man so I doubt Josh gives a shit.
That was the most intense response to the least interesting mistake. Josh you better not visit Andrea’s unisex salon, you’ll get your face eaten in that part of Florida.
it’s painfully obvious that the character was based off Raff. I think people are hating on him so much because they’re just mad they aren’t making money doing whatever they want. That’s what he’s doing, his raps are not ordinary rap by any means he’s just making music with what he can do easily.
Punk was founded by people who didn’t know how to play guitar still making rock. Riff is making music withwhat he’s got. If you don’t recognize it as talent stop giving him free publicity lol.
Also, Hollywood directors and writers have been taking from others without giving credit FOREVER. The internet is just causing it to be more obvious now.
Ricardo_Bastardly is obviously an uneducated moron as well. I agree cornrows look pretty stupid on white people, but how can you possibly confuse the two? Dreads are awesome, cornrows are not.