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Is Riff Raff ready to rumble? The “Tip Toe Wing in my Jawwdinz” rapper, 38, was asked to fight in Sean Kingston’s new boxing league for rappers. But despite agreeing to box via an Instagram direct message, the deal is now off the table, Page Six has learned. Riff Raff’s rep said, “No contracts have …
Is Riff Raff ready to rumble?
The “Tip Toe Wing in my Jawwdinz” rapper, 38, was asked to fight in Sean Kingston’s new boxing league for rappers. But despite agreeing to box via an Instagram direct message, the deal is now off the table, Page Six has learned.
Riff Raff’s rep said, “No contracts have been presented to us. No money has been offered and all we are focusing on is our Vanilla Gorilla album, which we released today.”
Kingston, 30, is launching the Professional Rapper Boxing League with his business partner and hip hop agent Triple The Mogul.
In a statement to Page Six, the “Beautiful Girls” singer said he created the league “to end gun violence in the black community, so rappers can use hands instead of guns to settle their differences.”
“I think this will be a great step in that direction,” he added.
Triple The Mogul, whose real name is Robert Levy, told us that he and Kingston have invested $10 million each into the league and raised about $50 million from investors.
Levy said no rappers have signed on as part of the league yet, but YK Osiris, Lil Tjay and Trippie Redd have “all agreed to fight” and Soulja Boy is “talking about fighting as well.”
The first fight is set to take place in August in an arena in Florida or Mississippi. Levy has not confirmed the location. He said in-person audiences won’t be allowed due to COVID-19, but fights will be streamed on Instagram Live.
