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RiFF RAFF has this knack for going so deep in his subculture appropriation that even if he approached an idea with satire in mind initially, the resulting caricature would be be so purely RiFF RAFF you’d believe he’d been bout it bout it since birth. This is exactly what ‘Kokayne’ is looks like.

The song is what he’s deemed ‘neon rock’, but it’s essentially him and Diplo rinsing the grunge/glam rock aesthetic in a warehouse party that has big hair, mosh’ing, and tattooing. But it’s done in a way that somehow RiFF RAFF paring a leather cut-off with an American flag on the back, with straight pink hair, with a god damn Neff watch, while still tip-toe-wing in his Jawdinz. All without it coming across suss.

If you asked an eight year old boy to describe his dream robot he’d say something like: ‘it would have a flamethrower and laser-vision and swords for fingers and a big rocket on his back and machine guns would fold out of it’s head and it would only listen to me’. When you read RiFF RAFF’s lengthy dream Neon rock set-up that he posted to Instagram it’s pretty much the same:

2 ALBUMS DROPPiNG ON THE SAME DAY JUNE 1ST 2015
THE PEACH PANTHER & THE PURPLE PANTHER ARE 2 TOTALLY DiFFERENT ALBUMS PEACH PANTHER WiLL BE A NEON RAP ALBUM WiTH RiFF RAFF ON THE HOOKS & NO FEATURES EXCEPT FOR JODY HUSKY & THE PURPLE PANTHER ALBUM WiLL BE THE NEW NEON ROCK ALBUM WiTH ALL LiVE iNSTRUMENTS & FEATURiNG MY NEW NEON DRUMMER WHO WiLL BE COLOR CO-ORDiNATED iN WHiTE & NEON AND HAVE WHiTE HAiR WiTH NEON GREEN HiGHLiGHTS & MY ELECTRiC GUiTAR PLAYER WiLL HAVE ALL BLACK ON WiTH BLACK HAiR & AQUA HiGHLiGHTS & CANDY AQUABERRY GUiTAR AND SHE LOOKS LiKE A HOT TOPiC COMMERCiAL WiTH BLACK AND NEON NAiLS & CRANKiNG TUNES FROM THE UNDERWORLD THEY ARE BOTH SUPER SKiLLED ARTiST WHO ARE ABOUT MUSiC AND BEiNG LEGENDS AND NOT STRUNG OUT ON DRUGS BECUZ i CANT HAVE MY BAND BEiNG SiCK ON ME BECUZ WE HAVE WORLDWiDE SHOWS FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS THiS WiLL BE THE BEGiNNiNG OF THE NEON ROCK ERA AND THE JODY HiGHROLLERS NEON ROCK CAREER ERA AS THE PURPLE PANTHER ALBUM WiLL BE MY 1ST ROCK ALBUM AND DEBUT ALBUM AS WELL AND THE STAGE iS NEON BUT SPLiT iN TWO WiTH THE WHiTE HAiR NEON BRiGHT DRUMMER SiDE AND THE DARKER GLOOMY NEON SiDE WiTH MY GUiTAR PLAYER AS i WiLL TRANSCEND BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN NEON GOOD AND NEON NOT SO NiCE ON THE OTHER SiDE BUT THiS NEON ROCK MUSiC THAT i MAKE WiLL SHOW MY STRENGTH AS A SOLO ARTiST AND MY SHOW WiLL BE 2 SHOWS iN ONE AS i WiLL STiLL DO EDM DOLCE & GABBANA OR MY CLASSiCS LiKE CUZ MY GEAR & TiP TOE WiNG iN MY JAWWDiNZ BUT iTS TiME FOR ME TO GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND BECOME WHO i ALWAYS KNEW i WOULD BE AND WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HOPED i WOULDNT BE BUT i AM NO WHERE NEAR STARTED YET SO THE PEACH PANTHER ALBUM & THE PURPLE PANTHER ALBUM WiLL DROP THE SAME DAY AND 2 SHiRTS AND MATCHiNG JODY JACUZZi SWiM TRUNKS WiTH MATCHiNG SANDALS WiLL ALSO DROP THAT DAY ON JODYHiGHROLLER.COM THE BEST MERCH STORE ON THE PLANET THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN i ALSO HAVE NEW NEON PEACH JODY HiGHROLLER HiGH END LOW CUT ZiPPER ON THE SiDE FASHiON BOOTS ON THE WAY ALSO THAT WiLL RANGE FROM $1000 TO $4000 SUPER HiGH QUALiTY SO STAY TUNED AND JODY HUSKY WiLL STAY HOWLiNG AT THE MOON OWWWW OWWWWWWWW OWWWW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude’s wish list is next level but the difference between him and the eight year old is that come June, RiFF RAFF will have fully transformed himself into a neon rock god so smoothly that it will make jacuzzi swim trunks with $4000 low-cut zipper-on-the-side boots the obvious #alphet of 2015.

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