It’s fitting that Riff Raff opens his debut album, Neon Icon, in the character of a Spring Breakers-sounding bro. “The Neon Icon album, it finally came out today bro.” Finally. From 2012 to 2014, Riff ...

On Sept. 10, 2013, RiFF RAFF was exposed. Ben Westhoff, a Voice Media writer who published a 2009 book called ‘Dirty South,’ in which he finds “the genre [of Southern rap] worth defending” and ...

The man known as the "Neon Icon" of music, Riff Raff, is celebrating today his 32nd birthday. Since breaking into the entertainment scene in 2009 on MTV's reality show From G's to Gents, Jody ...

Riff Raff calls the LP his “first real album,” since he self-released his previous offering, The Golden Alien. He’s excited to get Neon Icon out to the public, but right now he has to wait because ...

We used to consider RiFF RaFF a customized creation of every overzealous, hyperbolic Swishahouse freestyle that rolled off the assembly line. The jewelry, the braids, the persona that couldn’t be ...

So it’s apt that all of these things—plus fresh sneakers, plus David Hasselhoff—come up over and over again in Riff Raff’s Neon Icon. The fast-moving 15 tracks feel, a lot of the time, really freaking ...

23. “Now I write Clark Gable on my cable bill/ Bill Cosby on my couch out in Nashville.” (“Introducing The Icon”) 22. “Yeah, we can talk, don’t be a stranger/ Step inside the club and I smell like ...

Riff Raff is toasting to his accomplishments after signing a $4 million deal with BMG and Stampede Management to create his new label Neon Nation Corporation. He also has set loose his new single… By ...

It’s difficult to distinguish what kind of album Neon Icon is, or what RiFF RAFF is trying to achieve with it. With silly, slapstick lyrics and over-the-top musical movements, you’d think the album is ...

Speaking on the genesis of “Real Boyz,” Riff Raff credits his burgeoning friendship with Drake as the catalyst for the track. “Drake said I got this new producer that I think y’all could make hit ...

Remember Horst Simco, that quiet suburban Texas boy who somehow became Riff Raff? His forever-delayed album Neon Icon still has not seen release, but he's finding other ways to stay entrepreneurial.