The Weird World of Riff Raff - RollingStone.com
Riff Raff is at his North Hollywood apartment, sitting on a footstool beneath a portrait of Albert Einstein, eating Froot Loops from a plastic cup and figuring out how to get his Porsche Panamera washed. He's in the middle of a nationwide club tour, road-testing new songs from his imminent debut album, Neon Icon , and he's got more errands on his docket than time to handle them: clean the Porsche, locate a flash drive stocked with important... Somewhere in there, he's got a meeting to discuss the lawsuit he's threatening to file against the people behind Spring Breakers , the movie in which James Franco portrayed a cornrow-coiffed, tattoo-covered, abstraction-spewing white rapper—a... He only flew into Los Angeles two days ago, and he flies out again early tomorrow. "This is supposed to be a day off," Riff Raff says, "but all I've been doing is stressing out. It's a beautiful late-summer afternoon, but he's in too sour a mood to enjoy it. He took the Panamera to a car wash a couple hours ago, but the line was long and he got fed up with waiting. Much of his anxiety stems, no doubt, from his arrest three days earlier in North Carolina, where police searched the vehicle he was riding in after a concert and charged him with possession of a Schedule 1 narcotic, misdemeanor possession of... "I hate Los Angeles," he says, scowling as he crunches his cereal. Source: www.rollingstone.com
