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Roddy Ricch claims that YouTuber Prieto Hunters tried to extort him for $50,000 after discovering his Grammy Award for Greatest Rap Efficiency on “Racks within the Center,” which he earned alongside Nipsey Hussle and Hit-Boy, inside a storage unit.
On Monday (Dec. 2) evening, throughout an Instagram Reside session, the “Die Younger” rapper detailed how the storage unit was misplaced within the first place and the irritating ordeal of making an attempt to get the award again. Roddy defined that his private assistant had been in a “near-fatal accident,” which led Prieto Hunters to later buy it for $280 in November.
“That’s how the storage was mishandled. Going forwards and backwards to Miami, I simply put my stuff in storage for safekeeping, realizing that after I get all the way down to the home, it’s going to be there,” he defined. Roddy went on to share that he supplied Prieto Hunters $10,000 for the Grammy and different clothes objects, although the YouTuber apparently had different plans in thoughts.
“First, he requested me for an AP,” the Compton native continued. “Then he requested for $50,000. So, it was by no means about, ‘Oh, we will do it on simply the energy of making an attempt to get it again to you’ and all that sort of s**t. It was extra so a few n**ga making an attempt to get some clout off it or a n**ga making an attempt to principally extort me for $50,000.”
Prieto Hunters allegedly instructed Roddy to “fall asleep on it,” however the rapper emphasised his thoughts was already set. For context, “Racks within the Center” was the ultimate file Hussle launched throughout his lifetime. It arrived as a unfastened single, with the accompanying visible effort having amassed over 214 million YouTube views on the time of reporting.
Roddy additionally spoke concerning the police station incident the place one among his associates went to choose up the Grammy. In response to the artist, Prieto Hunters confirmed up with “two cops and three n**fuel with cameras.” Wanting again on all of it, he stated, “The entire state of affairs put a nasty style in all people’s mouth.”
On a extra constructive notice, Roddy’s upcoming undertaking, THE NAVY ALBUM, can be out on Friday (Dec. 6). He teased the LP with singles like “911” and “Survivor’s Regret” earlier within the yr.