Roddy Ricch struggled to hide his annoyance during an encounter with paparazzi in his hometown of Los Angeles, California, telling the cameraman in no uncertain terms to leave him alone.
On Thursday (December 29), The Hollywood Fix shared footage of Roddy loading his car up with a baby seat as cameras were rolling on the opposite side of the street. The determined paparazzo crossed the street to get a closer angle of the rapper, but was cut off by his security.
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The burly security guard told the cameraman Roddy was “doing something private,” but he persisted in trying to get the rapper’s attention and kept the camera rolling. The guard politely asked the cameraman one more time to leave, and as he obliged telling Roddy it was good to see him, “The Box” rapper flipped his middle finger as a parting gift.
The paparazzo then returned to the other side of the street when Roddy Ricch began to walk towards him, telling him to put the camera down. The man tried telling Roddy he saw him at a recent event, but the Compton native wasn’t having it and continued to plead with him to turn the camera off so he can “talk to [him] like a man.”
“You was the first dude that walked up on me. You walked up on me, bro. Don’t walk up on me, n-gga,” Roddy warned. “This is real life, don’t walk up on me. You walking up on my car, bro. I’m handling my personal business; you walking up on me, bro. This ain’t that. I’m living real life. Leave me the fuck alone, real shit. Leave me the fuck alone!”
Roddy’s caginess towards the cameraman may have something to do with the alarming trend of violence against rappers in L.A. over the last few years, with many artists becoming increasingly wary about their whereabouts being shared online, providing ammo for potential criminals.
In September, PnB Rock was shot and killed during a robbery at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffle in South L.A. Before that, Quando Rondo was targeted in a shooting at a gas station in Beverly Grove that left his friend dead.
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Pop Smoke’s life was tragically cut short at the tender age of 20 in February 2020 when he was fatally shot in a botched home invasion. The perpetrators, which included the alleged gunman who was just 15 years old at the time, targeted the Brooklyn rapper after discovering the address of his rental home on social media.
But it isn’t just out-of-towners who have been targeted. L.A. natives Drakeo The Ruler and YG affiliate Slim 400 were both murdered in the City of Angels last December, while hometown hero Nipsey Hussle was tragically gunned down outside his Marathon Clothing store in March 2019.
Roddy Ricch issued a statement following PnB Rock’s death, in which he called for an end to the violence in L.A.
“LA! Usually I try to mind my business and let the world rotate but we gotta do better,” the 23-year-old wrote on his Instagram Story at the time. “It’s too much senseless violence. Too much opportunity and motivation to take things other people work hard for. It’s too much life to live to take someone else’s life away.”
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He added: “I love my city but we can’t keep going out like this. Before you know it, it’ll be nobody left to take from or kill. Let’s stay on point stay aware and find better ways to pursue our dreams because this shit turning into ALL NIGHTMARES.”
