Why did Roddy Ricch deactivate Twitter?
GRAMMY-WINNING rapper Roddy Ricch has deactivated his social media accounts after releasing a snippet of his unreleased track.
Fans instantly flooded Instagram and Twitter with comments of disapproval and disappointment.
Why did Roddy Ricch deactivate Twitter?
On Saturday, February 5, 2022, the Compton rapper shared a snippet of his unreleased track, Out of My Mind, on Instagram.
The chorus sang: “I been low, I been high/I been out my body, out my mind/When you take my soul, take yo’ time.”
Fans excited to hear his first release in years were the same fans that criticized the shared track.
On user commented: “We don’t need this on God. Keep it, I’m good.”
Another wrote: “It ain’t horrible but needs work. I hate to see an artist like him go down hill.”
Ricch returned to Instagram to address the backlash before deactivating his account very soon after: “Guess I’m a flop now” he wrote. “Sh*t crazy.”
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However, there were a handful of fans that supported him and acknowledged his disappearance from social media.
One Twitter user wrote: “I honestly don’t blame Roddy Ricch for getting off Twitter and Instagram. He put out a solid project that took years to make and every move he made, people would tell him his project was mid or trash. Stop harassing artists fam, if you don’t like a project, cool, just move on.”
“A lot of artist take criticism hard especially when they were as praised as Roddy Ricch was,” another Twitter user commented. “To go from people defending you against the industry’s top stars to them filling your mentions with slander is tough. No surprise he deactivated his Twitter over it.”
Who is Roddy Ricch?
Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr., more known as, Roddy Ricch, 23, was born on October 22, 1998 in Compton, California.
Ricch started making beats at the age of 16.
He released his debut mixtape, Feed Tha Streets, in 2017 and a year later released an EP called Be 4 Tha Fame that included the single, Die Young.
In 2018, Ricch released his second mixtape, Feed Tha Streets II, and in 2019, released his debut album, Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.
The album went to number one on the Billboard 200 and went on to win Album of the Year at the BET Awards.
Ricch has also had six Grammy nominations and officially won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 2019 as a featured artist on Nipsey Hussle’s, Racks in the Middle.
He is known for appearing on tracks with artists like A Boogie wit da Hoodie, NLE Choppa, and DaBaby.
What is Roddy Ricch’s net worth?
Ricch’s net worth is estimated to be around $20million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
He reportedly paid $5.6 million for a home in Beverly Hills in December of 2021.
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