One of the ongoing trends with rappers who make it in the industry is leaving their ‘hood behind for a more lavish lifestyle that’s different from the one they used to live. Roddy Ricch was recently accused of doing this when a Compton Crip named Yah-L called Roddy’s street credibility into question and claimed he’s “false flagging.”
The 23-year-old Compton native heard all the commotion and decided to address it by calling into a Clubhouse room hosted by Wack 100 on Monday (January 10). Yah-L happened to be on the call, and Roddy wasn’t going to let him run with the idea that he’s falsely claiming his affiliation to the Crips.
“I got phone calls, text messages, I’m seeing on the internet I’m false flagging. I wanna know what’s going on,” the usually-reserved Roddy barked, showing a side that fans rarely see from him. “You saying I’m not from the hood? Who saying I’m not from the hood? You saying I’m not from the hood?!”
Yah-L stood firm on his claims, saying, “I said what I said.” But Roddy strongly denied the allegations, reminding the older gentleman of his stripes.
“You ain’t see me get put on to Blacc Macc?” he replied. “Three niggas; put two of them down. That ain’t official? ‘Cause I know a lot of little homies that ain’t get their official, n-gga.”
The heated conversation continued as Roddy Ricch flexed his financial muscle. “You ever touched a million dollars before?” he asked Yah-L. “Do you know what that feel like? ‘Cause you here talking about another n-gga for free!”
He added, “You 30, 40 years old using this app; n-gga, I’m 23! I don’t even know how to use this shit. ‘Cause I’m over here trying to make the Forbes again this year … Listen, I done made $20 million in a year; you think I’m about to be posted up with you, n-gga?!”
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The Live Life Fast rapper later claimed Yah-L is simply trying to “tearing another n-gga down that’s trying to help other n-ggas from the hood,” before listing off some of the things he’s done for his community, such as toy and turkey drives at Christmas.
Roddy also claimed the reason people don’t see him in Compton as much these days is because his label told him he’s “doing too much” in his hometown and advised him to shoot music videos elsewhere.
“You saying I’m false flagging; n-gga, I got put on my hood and I was over there, every video until — Anti-Social was in the hood!” he barked. “The label, Julie Greenwald, called us and told us we doing too much in Compton and we gotta do videos everywhere else — that’s what happened, n-gga!”
Tensions remained high until the end of the conversation, with Roddy Ricch yelling, “If I’m false flagging, you a false Crip ’cause you let a false Crip do all them videos in your hood after I had $10, $20 million in your hood, didn’t say nothing!”
Aside from defending his street credibility, Roddy is turning his attention to his next project. Last month, the diamond-certified rapper announced the third installment of his Feed Tha Streets mixtape series will arrive in 2022.
Roddy does have a point though.
so what if he’s a crip if he’s not in the hood anymore it shouldn’t matter – why would this fool be speaking on legit street biz involving himself and other? a loser like Lah B or whatever his name is is always going to be in the streets saying someone or another took his story and name. of course he’s going to see some young cat coming up and look at is as fake, how can it be real? real gang dudes die every day. is roddy riccch famous because he’s a good rapper or because 14 year old white girls think he’s a crip?
Jealousy straight up. It’s always the people from your hood that will try to pull you down once you get successful. This is the number one reason why the majority of rappers get killed in their hood, trying to appeal to cats that are really talking behind their back saying they aren’t “real”. This keeps them in areas that they know they shouldn’t be. Classic crab in the barrel mentality.
Imagine how much you’ve failed as a parent if you have a 23 year old that reps the hood this hard. This aint about money, I’m glad he made it in spite of, this is about is upbringing, his environment he was allowed to be around. How is a kid born in 1999 AFTER the crack epidemic still turn to gangs so hard that he has to go an defend a gang AFTER becoming a multimillionaire. We’re lost I tell you. UTTERLY LOST. And it aint even his fault. Its ALL the adults around him that he’s probably providing for financially at this point.
This comment is trash. 1st of all…he wasn’t defending a gang. He was defending his own reputation. Ol’ boy was calling him a phony and he took exception to that. 2nd…how is it his parents’ failure that he joined a gang? Is it because they couldn’t afford to move and that’s the environment he grew up in? Now we’re shaming and blaming people for the generational curse of poverty? I grew up in the 90’s in a lower middle class, 2-parent household but all my parents could afford was “the hood”. I was an A student but joined a gang when I was like 12 because that’s who my friends were. They sent me to private school for high school and I sold drugs there. Eventually I got it together and in my 40’s am raising my kids away from where I grew up. My parents didn’t fail me. I made silly decisions as a child. I was influenced by my environment just like everyone is. Calling a parent a failure because of the environment they live in is a very privileged way to view life.