While the Grammys don’t always get it right, earning one is a major achievement for any artist. Compton rapper Roddy Ricch won his first Grammy back in 2020 for the song “Racks In The Middle” along with the late Nipsey Hussle and Hit-Boy. However, the rapper recently got himself into a messy situation when he had to go head-to-head with a popular social media star to get his award back.
On November 30, social media personality Prieto Hunters posted a video on TikTok of him inside Ricch’s storage unit, where he found the award along with tons of clothes. Hunters purchased the unit for $280 dollars at an auction. Hunters is known online for purchasing abandoned storage units and showing the hidden treasures he finds inside.
Roddy Ricch shares what went down
On Instagram Live on December 2, Ricch broke down his side of the story.
“My personal assistant ended up getting into a near-fatal accident and had a severe brain injury. Me going back and forth to Miami, I just put my stuff in storage for safe-keeping. Him getting into that accident is how that shit got mishandled,” Ricch said, explaining how his Grammy ended up in the wrong hands.
According to the rapper, Hunters wanted a lot more than $280 to return the reward to its rightful owner.
“First he asked me for an AP, then he asked me for $50,000 … So it was never about ‘Oh we’re going to do it on just the strength of trying to get it back to you.’ All that type of shit. It was more so about a n**** trying to get some clout off it or a n**** trying to basically extort me for $50,000,” Ricch said.
Social media creator shares his side of the story
Hunters released a TikTok refuting these claims on December 2, saying that he never asked for money and all he wanted was a video of him returning it or a video of Ricch telling him thank you (for content purposes since he’s a creator). He also said that Ricch’s crew threatened him during their conversations (which the rapper has denied).
“I did not ask for that and no I did not get offered none 50k all I got was threats you guys don’t know the full story I returned it at NO COST and want nothing to do with them I want no compensation from them not even tickets!,” Hunters later said in an IG comment.
Eventually, the Grammy was returned during an exchange at a California police station (with Hunters’ camera crew in tow but no Ricch) and people online have mixed reactions about how the situation was handled.
