allaboutjamesbowker asked: what do you think are the chances those fold-up glasses the dude in riff-raff's video become a trend? also, in what sense is do you see him as a "minstrel show." he dresses like vanilla ice in the swag generation reminds me of that friend from high-school who didn't know how to not clown and never took his pills, i don't think there's any racial subtext there...
There’s always a racial subtext when a white person is making black music. There definitely was in the case of Vanilla Ice. I wouldn’t call Riff Raff a “minstrel show” per se, but I also don’t think it would hurt dude to be a little more aware of this subtext when crafting his public persona. In fact, Vanilla Ice is a good point of comparison because they both seem to share that ridiculous obliviousness to the racial issue. Riff Raff probably isn’t as good at rapping or dancing as Vanilla Ice was but he’s a considerably more entertaining writer.
Those fold-up glasses were already a trend twenty years ago.
