Roddy Ricch isn’t having the best festival run this summer. The Compton, California native is the topic of discussion on social media after clips of his recent performance at the Wireless Festival circulated online.
On Friday (July 8), Roddy took the Wireless stage at Finsbury Park in London, England, and had the crowd engaged with his set the entire time. What seemed like a regular festival show turned uncomfortable for some rather quickly when the crowd began singing the words to his hit single “The Box.”
In the video shared online, the mostly white crowd sang every word precisely while Roddy told them to “Sing that shit” right before going into the catchy chorus. The festivalgoers kept the karaoke going with the chorus and even sang the lyric “suck a n-gga soul” which didn’t seem censored on the audio track.
People on social media were quick to comment on the moment, with many feeling uneasy about a large group of white people freely saying the N-word while others weren’t surprised at all.
“Many a n-gga was sung, nary a n-gga was seen,” Someone tweeted while another said, “ya’ll really thought all them white ppl in that Roddy Ricch performance weren’t gonna say ‘n-gga’? at this point i don’t even cringe when i hear stuff like that, it’s just expected…smmfbbh.”
Roddy Ricch drew criticism again at another festival when he kicked a fan that ran on stage during another set. The incident happened at the Openair Frauenfeld Festival in Switzerland, where Roddy was performing “The Box” when a fan ran past him on stage and caused his microphone to fall out of his hand.
Roddy Ricch Kicks Fan Running On Stage At Swiss Festival
Roddy Ricch confronted the fan and began kicking him while security tried getting him off the stage. It wasn’t a good look for the rap star as people dragged him on social media.
News flash: 30 years of using a racial slur as an adjective to describe the male gender leads to the word having a new definition. The word has been bleached. You cant demand equality without treating the fans as equals, regardless of color. If you can say it, they can too. Lead by example and a whole generation will follow.
Don’t want people to say it? Don’t put it in a song then ask people to sing along with it. How severely brain damaged do you have to be to still not understand that?
i’ll say w/e word i want its called free speech
I went to an ab-soul concert in 2017 and he explicitly told the white people in the audience that they can sing the n word in his song. Most rappers don’t care if their white fans say it in the lyrics to their song. And honestly, here’s a news flash: Racist people don’t buy tickets to go see black artists. When it comes to racial equality, white people singing the n word at concerts is a non-issue. People like to focus their energy on the most minimal shit because it’s easier to be outraged and do nothing than actually take action to make change. We want to have equal opportunity in employment, mortgage rates, and education, but y’all would rather bitch and moan about white people singing the n word at a Roddy ricch concert. It’s pathetic.
LMAO!!
Whites are the largest consumers of a genre they were never the intended audience for. It’s a double-edged sword that either y’all have to live with, or get creative. If white rappers can make albums without the n-word, so can you n-words!
Don’t ever say white folks don’t like your black asses again.
Who cares? It’s a fuckin’ song!! APPARENTLY, they like & EMBRACE the culture!! smdh