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With new album, Riff Raff is the evolutionary white rapper
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Riff Raff has been an Internet mainstay for at least two years and his artistic credibility has been defended and derided. His Warhol-esque skin, with pop culture references from the BET logo to Slimer the ghost tattooed on his body, Riff Raff has become the poster child for the new age of sardonic Internet-based hip-hop. More than that he is pioneering new ground for white rappers. How exactly does Riff Raff fit in to the history of white rappers? Before hip-hop’s fastest rising and most divisive star releases his most anticipated album, “NEON iCON,” on Jan. 28 on Mad Decent, we take a look. More