Roddy Ricch is one of the hottest up and coming rappers in the game right now.
The 21 year old rapper from Compton, currently has the #1 song in the world right now called
“The Box” which features a catchy and melodic hook that has everyone and their dads
going crazy for Roddy Ricch.
In fact, The Box is such a hit right now that it beat out Justin Bieber’s latest song
“Yummy” for the #1 spot on the charts even after Justin Bieber told his fans about
a little trick to inflate his streaming numbers by the millions.
But despite all of the success, Roddy Ricch has still found himself on the wrong side
of the law.
Curious on what led Roddy Ricch to be behind bars?
Well then we have you covered.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the Criminal History of Roddy Ricch.
Roddy Ricch, born Rodrick Wayne Moore, Jr., claimed to have grown up around a lot of gang
activity, but it wasn’t until his mother kicked him out of the house at just 16 years
old that he fully became involved with that street type of lifestyle.
Roddy soon became a member of the “crips” and began to commit robberies and sell drugs
in order to support himself.
In his Rolling Stone interview, Roddy even went into detail about his first ever robbery
where he allegedly threw a rock at a restaurant window in order to prove to everyone that
he was really about it and wasn’t just tagging along to get some money.
It was also noted that Roddy completely abandoned his therapy classes that he’d been attending
since the eighth grade, just to commit pointless crimes around town.
This type of behavior went on for several years before it finally caught up to him at
the age of 18 when he got arrested for the first time in his life…
The details of Roddy Ricch’s first arrest are almost non existent but he claimed that
he was facing a possible gun charge and spent a whole week in jail before he was able to
make bail.
During that week in jail, Roddy came to realize that the path he was going down was not a
good one and decided that he needed to do something positive with his life.
This is where the music comes into play.
At first, Roddy was using music as a way to cope with all of his problems instead of using
it as a way to make money, but after hearing all the positive feedback he was getting,
Roddy began to really sit down and put time and effort into his raps.
Throughout the next year, Roddy did nothing but sit and record in various studios across
America and he eventually released his first ever project titled “Feed The Streets.”
This project put a lot of new eyes on Roddy Ricch and even had rappers such as Meek Mill
and Nipsey Hussle (RIP) wanting to work with Roddy as soon as possible.
Several months later, Roddy Ricch dropped “Die Young”, a now certified platinum
single, which brought him an incredible amount of mainstream attention and then followed
“Die Young” with another banger titled “Every Season”, a song with over 100,000,000
views on YouTube at the time of this recording.
These back to back hits allowed Roddy Ricch to sign what we could only assume to be one
impressive record deal with Atlantic Records.
With a brand new massive fanbase and record label behind him, Roddy was ready to take
over the rap game… but not without one more obstacle in his way.
On August 11, 2019, Roddy Ricch and his girlfriend were hanging out in his Los Angeles home when
a verbal argument broke out between the two.
This argument soon escalated into a physical argument after Roddy apparently grabbed his
girlfriend during the alleged incident.
Police then showed up to Roddy’s residence and asked both parties what happened.
After hearing both sides, the police confirmed that neither of them need medical attention
and that Roddy Ricch had to be arrested for Assault, which was a felony charge.
Roddy later posted a $50,000 bail the next day and was free to go.
This arrest ended up not really affecting Roddy in any type of way as he continued to
do shows and record for his now hit album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial”,
which dropped in early December of 2019, just a few months after this arrest occurred.
While still awaiting sentencing, his song “The Box” started to go extremely viral
and as of January 13, 2020, “The Box” is now the #1 song in the world, beating out
Justin Bieber’s “Yummy” as well as dethroning Post Malone’s song “Circles”.
In addition to this incredible achievement, Roddy Ricch also received news that on January
15th, 2020, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped his felony charge
due to insufficient evidence aka the police either exaggerated the situation just to have
a reason to arrest Roddy, or the girlfriend isn’t cooperating with the prosecutors.
Either way I think it’s safe to say that Roddy Ricch is off to an incredibly good start
for the new decade.
Overall, Roddy Ricch seems to have a pretty bright future ahead of him.
Ever since he went to jail for the first time, he’s been working non stop to be the best
musician he can possibly be and its most certainly paying off.
Even his peers are starting to recognize his potential with Russ tweeting “Roddy Ricch
gonna be here for a loonnnnngg time.
Great songwriters always stick around”.
And I completely agree with this.
As long as Roddy Ricch can stay out of trouble and continues to keep working on his craft,
Then I feel like we will be hearing his name for quite some time.
Well there you have it, the entire criminal history of Roddy Ricch.
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