This young boy, who has amassed millions of listens and views with his track “Die Young” (the song was written on the day XXXTentaction died and is dedicated to all the dead young stars who inspired Roddy), has attracted a lot of attention from the audience, and with it the industry.
Although he was not personally acquainted with “X”, as he says, he felt a lot of influence of the artist on himself.
On the day of his death, he did not leave the feeling that he should pay tribute to his legends (“X”, “Speaker Knockerz”, “Lil Snoop”), who died young.
After the breakout track, “Roddy” became even more popular. Although before that, they heard about him only in his native Compton, where he was loved by the public and gave concerts in the schools of the “Lawndale” and “Crenshaw” districts (the home area of ”Nipsey Hussle”).
We can say that this single became a new starting point for the birth of a musical star. Well, we will try to tell you more about what we still know about the performer.
At the beginning of 2019, this gaining momentum performer managed to work with many famous performers, from the aforementioned “Nipsey Hussle”, and “Marshmello” and ending with a remix with “Post Malone”, where he shared the feast not only with the popular “Posty” but also with not the less famous “Tyga”!
Biography
Roddy Ricch’s real name is Rodrick Moore. Originally from Compton, California, he spent most of his childhood in other states, from Louisiana to Atlanta, Georgia.
Many of his relatives live in different cities of the country and he often had to wander from one city to another.
Therefore, you can notice in his music a difference in musical style from other classical natives of Compton: “Kendrick Lamar”, “YG” and “The Game”.
He feels southern melody and the influence of the south in the person of “Speaker Knockerz”, “Future”, and “Young Thug”, which influenced him more than his western compatriots, whom he heard about, but does not know personally (except for Kendrick).
He is a true inhabitant of the “ghetto”, and many of his current interviews have been taken in his native “bloc”.
We mentioned “Nipsey Hussle”, but in fact, the first to discover this guy was “Meek Mill”, who through his cousin “Omelly” met Roddy Ricch in a studio in Atlanta.
Since then, “Meek Mill” has become somewhat of an older brother and friend to “Roddy”, as he warmly talks about in the interview above.
Meek Mill paid tribute to Roddy Rich in October 2018 and signed him to his Dream Chaser Records with a $ 2 million deal. His second mixtape was Meek Mill.
Meek Mill, by the way, advised Roddy to leave the ghetto. I think this is good advice because of the incident with “Nipsey Hussle”, who was killed in his home area. But Roddy has a large number of relatives living in the “ghetto”, and they are all members of the local Crips network.
And Roddy himself was a member of the gang. He was doing his best on the streets of Compton when his mother kicked him out of the house. He had to get even deeper bogged down in bandit affairs since he had to get bread.
This melody captivates. The lyrics are full of suffering and experience that will not leave you indifferent. As he said, his compositions are full of things that he experienced on his skin. This makes him similar to another equally talented performer YNW Melly, who also tries to create personal and sensual compositions.
Conclusion
He began to write rap at the age of nine, but he took it seriously at the age of 15-16, when he was on the street and realized how much a pound of dashing was.
He had to be in serious trouble and have serious problems with the law. As he mentioned, many of his acquaintances were killed or ended up in prison, and nothing good for the future of young people awaits on the streets.
Therefore, he took up creativity with serious intention and recorded projects all day before success came to him.
He wrote the breakthrough “Die Young” as well as many other compositions, without any waiting. But when the numbers suddenly broke through the heavens, he was very surprised and pleased. Now it remains for him to develop success.
