Rap Game 'That Thing That Happens When You're in a Bathroom with Mirrors That Face One Another'

Rap Game ‘That Thing That Happens When You’re in a Bathroom with Mirrors That Face One Another’

1. Harmony Korine begins shooting a film in Florida about a drug dealer/rapper who hangs out with and corrupts a group of attractive teenage girls. The sleazeball is played by James Franco, whose costume involved braids in his hair, gaudy clothing and hideous jewelry — some of which looks exactly like Riff Raff’s.

2. Riff Raff claims that the main character in the film is actually based on him. And, furthermore, that it was actually supposed to be him — that Korine had invited him to play himself, but that he was out of the country and therefore unable to play the part.

3. Riff Raff is already playing a character of sorts. He has a handful of personae that he switches between (one is an foppish British man; one is a freestyle rapper from Houston) that makes it incredibly difficult to pin down just where Raff’s center lies.

4. Riff Raff goes down to Florida to record a song with Kitty Pryde, an underage, white, attractive (sorry!), female rapper from Florida.

5. (1) and (2) happened before (4) happened, chronologically speaking, but what does that mean? Riff Raff’s simulacrum acted out things that Riff Raff would likely act out were Riff Raff a real thing (but he is not), and Riff Raff followed through on certain aspects of it, while claiming that he was in fact supposed to be the one playing out the fictionalization of his own personal fiction.

*passes joint back to you, coughing*