Vince Staples, the Long Beach native best known for his work with Earl Sweatshirt and his most recent previous foray into shining rap torch bearing, Shyne ColdchainII,is fit to burst onto the scene. But, hold on. The newly turned 18 year old is so wise beyond his years that heâs constantly hinting at quitting before he getâs started. Well, before his recently dropped contender for project of the year Hell Can Wait, that is.Â
Itâs another example of super A&R No I.Dâs creative-arts handiwork blessing another young emcee with the tools to create music close to their own heart. The result has been a authenticity parade, wherein artists are specifically asked to make art instead of being specifically asked to sell music or tickets or what-have-you. Vince is a benefit of that hyperion-like focus on making quality, experience driven music that resonates beyond itâs usual echo chamber. âNo I.D. is basically pressinâ people for me,â said Staples, and who these days ventures to have that much trust in their chief?
But, here, we caught him just before his big reveal this past week, and while he was tight lipped about the project waiting in the wings, we found him fairly open to just about anything else. From why Rappers are still âthe guy on the corner with the drums and the sign,â to why Childish Gambinoâs Because⊠The Internet was the best album of 2013 and how you canât trust Barack Obama, Vince was both serious and extraordinarily luicd for a young rap lion. âAll Iâm saying is that niggas are in it for attention. I donât care⊠I have never worn a chain in my life and I never will. I had a G-Shock in like the ninth grade. I fuck with the music, but all the extra shit, they can keep that. The music and the money is cool with me.â And, with Hell Can Wait, he may also prove to be ahead of his time. Â
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Vince Staples Talks Not Getting Boxed In & What âAuthenticityâ MeansÂ
HipHopDX: Hey, man. Youâve been on tour for quite a while, howâs the been going?
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Vince Staples: Iâve been on tour for two years straight almost so itâs cool â itâs work, this is how youâre gonna get paid. This is a little business. But, itâs cool. The most important part to me is being able to see everything. So going to these new places and figuring out stuff you didnât see before. And just seeing that everyone is the same. You learn a lot on the road so thatâs what Iâm on. Trying to figure this little thing out while I got time to be able to walk around before and after the show.
DX: How does it feel to have so many people supporting what you talk about, and relating to you?Â
Vince Staples: One thing I tell people about rap or just music in general that involves people buying your records⊠Just personally how I feel, like I havenât really bought that many CDs in my life. Iâm not even going to pretend that I have. Everything that Iâve bought have been from the same people. If you look at people that are successful, they never really follow the pattern that people think they gotta go by. Like, thereâs only one you at the end of the day, so. So, if youâre selling yourself and marketing yourself and thatâs really what your music becomes because those people are buying into you as a person. Then, whatever the music is, thatâs where youâre at at that point in your life. So thatâs what I feel like I try to do with my music or kind of apply to it so the fact that I have so much support means that people are supporting me. Theyâre not buying a song, and itâs not a small moment in time or whatever. They really are trying to be in this for the long haul for the stuff that I do so itâs appreciated greatly.Â
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DX: Whoâs a rap fan these days?
Vince Staples: It depends. The majority of the people listening to music are just little nerdy kids, just to be 100% honest with you. Thatâs who comes to everybody. Thatâs whoâs going to be at the ScHoolBoy show, the YG show, the Donald Glover show. Itâs the same kids at everybodys show, but I feel like I donât really want to limit nobody. A lot of times people try too hard to be on the streets on some corny shit, like, ânigga, Iâm ghetto.â Thatâs cool, but nobody really cares at the end of the day. Like, nobodyâs gonna care when you get shot. So, the thing about that shit is you can be like⊠Itâs cool when itâs not real. Itâs like the zoo. Music is like the zoo, especially Rap music and black music in general. Like, you got all these people sitting outside the glass and itâs cool to point at the lion and shit, but nobody gonna hop they ass in that motherfuckinâ box. But, itâs cool to look at it happen. But once itâs real and once youâre in the line of fire and once itâs dangerous then itâs not okay, no more. Then youâre a wild animal, but, before that itâs a novelty type thing. So, I really donât want to limit my music to nobody because I feel like I donât want to be one of those motherfuckers where theyâre like, âOh, look, heâs ghetto.â Itâs not realistic. Thereâs not one type of person in any environment. I got homies whose parents have money, but theyâre the wildest people I know. And I know homies who are doing something good with themselves and they were in the worst projects. So, I donât really want to limit it. So Iâll say that I want my fans to be everybody.
DX: Thereâs a lot of talk about âauthenticityâ in Rap. How do you think âauthenticityâ is viewed now?Â
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Vince Staples: I mean, you just said it. Itâs a game, these niggas is playing. Everybody sell cocaine and they make 30K per shipment and theyâve got three shipments a week but theyâre still rapping even though you gotta pay taxes and you gotta stress your ass out and go on the road and all this other shit. You gotta spend money to make money, but you were making more money selling your little cocaine than youâre doing rapping but youâre still rapping. And it donât ever make no motherfuckinâ sense. Like, come on, bro. These guys ainât really doing half the stuff you think theyâre doing. The oneâs youâre not thinking about are the oneâs that are probably doing it. Thatâs probably the best thing about the West Coast. Thatâs the best thing about our music because most of the people thatâs out now is actually about something. But if you look thereâs nobody really out there trying to be hard. Just like rappers ainât doing that 90s [stuff], trying to slap a nigga up shit (most of them niggas was corny). So you have to think: itâs musicians. Itâs art. Theyâre not really like that. And, thereâs nothing wrong with rappers not really being like that. Like Makonnen, he raps about selling this and selling that, but even if he is, he doesnât carry himself like a dickhead. What you trying to act hard for? What you trying to do? Youâre gonna go to jail, if you know the right person. Loon doing like 14 years for knowing [the right] somebody right now. So, I donât buy into any of that.Â
DX: So then do you appreciate all the characters in Hip Hop right now like Riff Raff?Â
Vince Staples: Of course, because theyâre not taking themselves too seriously. Fuck should I be mad for? People think Iâm one of those kinds of niggas. Lifeâs too short to really be on some shit like that. You need niggas like Riff Raff. Fuck, I was just telling you, like Soulja Boy⊠Thatâs who we grew up on. I donât feel like itâs a need to take yourself so seriously all the time. Even if you look like 50, he knows how to tell a joke. Nobodyâs hard 24/7. So you just need to be a person and just be full circle with your shit.Â
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Vince Staples Explains âShyne Coldchain IIâ & Fanâs Expectations
DX: It seems like you use music like therapy. Why do you drop such personal situations and lyrics in your music?Â
Vince Staples: I wasnât on that at first. It was literally what should I rap about for every single song before âVersace Rapâ. The name of the beat is this, so this is what itâs going to be about and thatâs really where I was at. But, I just stopped caring, like, if it works it works and if it doesnât it doesnât. Iâve always been like that, but then I really got to the point where there was a lot of shit that was going on in my life like growing up and being almost 18, and really just having to be grown, because thatâs a quick transition when you come from our environment. Like, my momma was⊠she wasnât really taking care of me, like she was doing shit, but you donât really rely on your parents so youâre out on your own. Youâre young. I wasnât going to school. I didnât have no job. I wasnât doing nothing so it was like, âfuck it.â If something happens then niggas was going to know who I was. Thatâs how I still look at the music. Niggas got bangers, but it ainât time for that. You gotta chronicle stuff. I gotta get all of that out of the way. Kind of paying duesâ, some would say.Â
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DX: So is that what you were trying to do with Shyne Coldchain II?
Vince Staples: Yeah, I would say that. Thatâs really more where I was trying to go with that Stolen Youth shit and Shyne Coldchain I was trying to figure out how to put out actual songs with that Shyne Coldchain II just to be honest. Thatâs really what I was trying to figure out how to get all that stuff right because thatâs important.Â
DX: How do you think people view you and your music? And whatâs the difference between that perception and reality?
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Vince Staples: It depends, though. Iâll see motherfuckers hit me up and be like, âDam, Iâm scared of this nigga,â and I donât know why. And other niggaâs will say, âThis nigga full of shit.â Like, alright. I donât really care. At the end of the day you canât tell me I donât know what I know. You canât tell me I havenât seen what Iâve seen. You canât tell me who my mommaâ is, you canât tell me who my daddy is. You ask my parents about my music and theyâre going to say, âYeah, thatâs what happened.â And my momma ainât gonna lie for me. You gotta take it for what it is. Whether youâre in the streets or the workplace â no matter where youâre at â motherfuckerâs are gonna try to figure you out who they think you are no matter what youâre doing. You can be the nigga at McDonalds and youâre working the fries and the nigga thatâs working the burgers is going to think youâre an asshole and the nigga that mop the floor is going to think youâre his best friend. So, thatâs just apart of life, you canât really think too much about it. But, I do appreciate people who just take it for what it is. But, a lot of people donât want to take it for what it is. As people we feel the need to have to know. Like, this has to be this. It has to be specifically this or it doesnât make any sense. And, as a people, thatâs one of our main fucking problems. But, at the same time, we donât want to accept the truth for what it is. Like, all these people wandering around here saying, âIâm not black, Iâm Creole.â Man, you black. Youâre just a different type of black person. Why canât we just be rappers? Why canât you just be somebody thatâs making music? Why canât this just be your side of the story?Â
Vince Staplesâ Tackles âRap Realityâ vs. âRap Fictionâ
DX: So what kind of lessons have you picked up from the label?Â
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Vince Staples: I donât care about that shit, bro. I got a good ass manager. I got a good ass A&R. No I.D. is in there pressinâ niggas for me. I donât even be over there, but itâs all the same. Itâs a business so you gotta act like itâs a business. The second you stop going to work is the second you fuck your whole shit up. So, I go to work. The label is my boss and they gotta cut my paycheck. Itâs all a compromise. They compromise you by giving you money before you even do anything. So you have to compromise by giving them something that they can do something with. And, thatâs where Iâm at right now and I got no problem doing that because what the fuck else am I going to do? I didnât graduate from High School. My recordâs kind of, eh. Nothing crazy. I dontâ have any felonies or anything but I got some questionable shit thatâs not gonna let me get no retail job or anything like that. So, letâs be rappers and act accordingly.
DX: You said before you feel the need to stay humble, why is that?
Vince Staples: Because itâs true. At the end of the day thereâs a nigga with a regular job thatâs making more money than 80% of rappers, yearly. For real. Thereâs a dude that works at the oil refinery right now with an AMG or some crazy shit like that. I see him every time Iâm going home. Hard-hat and everything. So itâs not about that. So, I feel like youâre doing a service. Being a rapper, not to be corny, is like being a teacher in some ways. You can be a nigga with millions of dollars, but every nigga on the Forbes list didnât get it from rapping. They got it from some outside shit. I tell kids who tell me they wanna rap that if they expect to get paid a lot of money you should go to college. And niggas look at me like Iâm being an asshole, but itâs real. This shit is a sacrifice. Youâre telling your life story. Everything youâve ever been through, everything youâre going to go through, how you feel about the world, and somebody is looking at you trying to figure out if you deserve their money. And then they get to figure out how much of their money you deserve. Like, âNah, Iâm not going to buy the whole CD, Iâm going to buy a single.â So, you the nigga on the corner, still. You still the nigga on the corner with the drums and the sign. âIâm a give a dollar. No, Iâm a give him $20. Oh, Iâm just going to buy this $100 t-shirt.â Your life is in the hands of others, so, I feel like why would you not be humble because these mother fuckers fend for you. Once motherfuckers feel like, âFuck you, youâre an asshole,â youâre done.
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DX: Andre 3000 mentions something like that at the end of T.I.âs âSorryâ when he says and all you can say is that âthat verse ainât good. Itâs boring?â And it hits you that people donât look at artists in that way.
Vince Staples: Itâs crazy. You have to pay more taxes than everybody. You gotta understand, the taxes are crazy. When you go out of state and youâve traveled and get paid you have to pay taxes in multiple states. They donât think about that, either. But they want to make fun of rappers because they broke. Itâs funny to make fun of a dude when he ainât got no bread, and you ainât probably got no bread. But, you can go get a job. He probably canât go get a job because everybody knows his face. So that dude is fucked. But itâs funny because he ran out of money because you wanted to stop paying him. But, that probably happened because he was being an asshole. Itâs like, my manager used to tell me, these child stars from these shows⊠Take Bud Bundy. When he walks around people are like, âThatâs Bud Bundy. Thatâs Bud Bundy.â Itâs probably going to make him mad until he ainât got nothing to do any more. Then heâs going to be begging for somebody to call you Bud Bundy. Then youâre like, âDam, that was me!â Itâs like Eddie Kane from The Five Heartbeats. You the man until you ainât got it no more, [and] then youâre dancing in a suit from 20 years ago trying to get somebodyâs attention. So, I just feel like we gotta appreciate it and be humble because itâs an opportunity. But, also, people who listen to it have to understand the sacrifices made. Itâs a two-way street.
I am not going to be rapping when I am 50 something years old. I do not care. Iâm not about to buy the 2 million dollar house. Iâm about the hit the KB homes, the toll brothers on some regular shit. Iâm not into all that attention. Iâm just not that kind of nigga. I mean, itâs cool. I fuck with it. When I say stuff like that I donât mean, like, I donât fuck with music [or] Iâm not trying to be a rapper. All Iâm saying is that niggas are in it for attention. I donât care⊠I have never worn a chain in my life and I never will. I had a G-Shock in like the ninth grade. I fuck with the music but all the extra shit, they can keep that. The music and the money is cool with me.Â
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Vince Staples Describes Not Trusting The Feds, âHypocrisy,â & Long Beach
DX: That Barack Obama lyric had everyone on the web up in arms it seems, why do you think people were so stunned youâd say that?
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Vince Staples: It wasnât even that deep. Heâs weird. You canât trust no nigga whose waves always look the same. You canât trust him. You think he du-rag it? I think Barack Obama wears a du-rag, and you canât be a [POTUS] with a du-rag. But, no I donât care about any of that stuff, man. They can pass as many laws as they want. l am from the ghetto. The only things that affect me are like the SB260 type shit that let the homies get out early, and gangsweeps. And thatâs all state law so I donât care who the President is. Iâm never gonna vote, Iâm never going to go to jury duty because I will sit in that motherfuckinâ room and tell you I am an active gang member and if I see anybody thatâs from some other shit Iâm going to make sure they get life. And theyâre going to say thank you for your time. I donât give a fuck about none of that government shit because itâs never done nothinâ.
My grandpa went to the army and came home and all my family gangbang. That donât make no sense. He got medals, was in the Marines, came home and he started gangbanginâ. That should tell you something was wrong with that shit because you donât have a problem going from that to that. Itâs the same thing. Itâs a bully tactic. Itâs extortionary. âWeâre bigger than you. Weâre going to come kill you. Gimmeâ this.â Thatâs all itâs ever gonna be. Thatâs how the world works, though. Itâs been like that. You go back to Greece and Rome and Egypt, itâs just niggas punking niggas. People are animals at end of the day in the literal sense of the word. So, what the fuck you expect? Like, in gangbanging, thereâs always one person that everybody likes, whoâs the cool one. But heâs probably the same one telling niggas where everybody at and he getâs people killed. Thatâs what the President does. Heâs the fun guy. The one that everybody likes. Just watch that guy. You canât hold it against him. Thatâs the way itâs set up. I ainât no saint. I fuck with it. Do what you gotta do. Itâs nice over here. As long as it stays nice where Iâm at you can do whatever you want because Iâm not even going to pretend I care. Nobody really cares. Like, even with that Trayvon Martin shit. No one really cares at the end of the day. Itâs just cool to pretend to give a fuck. What are you really gonna do? I swear to god when my cousin got killed niggas was on Crenshaw and one of the homies was like, âYo, Iâm about to go see what I can get over there.â But itâs like, âDam, B, he died [and] you shooting niggas.â And you listen to gangster rap, and your favorite rapper done killed 50 niggas but once this nigga die itâs a problem? You gotta pick a way to be. Either itâs wrong or itâs right and thatâs what people like. And thatâs what people donât understand. Itâs either wrong or itâs right, period. And when you add all that other shit like, âOh, he got killed by a white nigga.â Even though he wasnât white, he was spanish or whatever. But if a nigga killed him, what you gonna say? Is it still fucked up?
DX: Because you see so much hypocrisy, do you distance yourself from people because of it?Â
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Vince Staples: I donât fuck with people. I be on my own shit. Youâre never gonna see me at no release party, youâre never going to see me at the club. Youâre never going to see me do none of that. Iâm not with none of that. I ainât never got high. I ainât never got drunk. That just ainât my shit. I just always stayed to myself. Even since I was younger. I got a few homies, and Iâve had the same homies my whole life, because I canât really fuck with people like that. But, itâs like, I get it. Itâs an escape. Itâs a release. I get all of that shit, but me personally I canât get with it. Like, I Tweeted one day something like, âItâs cool to Rap about it, but when a nigga really die itâs like, âAw, well thatâs so sad.ââ We gotta stop the violence. Itâs cool to rap about drugs, but when a nigga mom is strung out, itâs, âWhy would you do that?â But, nigga, I though tit was cool just 10 minutes ago. Thatâs just life, bro. Itâs cool to be rich, but not cool to take from the poor. But you want money, but youâve gotta understand that money circulates, so if you got it, somebody else donât. Thatâs just the general concept of it. It donât make no sense, but itâs something that people donât want to think about.
DX: Why do you think people behave that way, then?
Vince Staples: Because people are stupid. At the end of the day, people are stupid. You know whatâs youâre told at the end of the day. If somebody came to you and told you youâre not supposed to shit in a toilet, youâre supposed to shit outside, youâre gonna look at them like they crazy. Youâre gonna look at them like, âWhat the fuck is wrong with you?â Itâs a simple concept. The fact that they say governments are bankrupt and this and that and we make money? Like, you just make it? You take a piece of paper and you print it but you can run out of something that you make yourself. And thatâs what the world is based off of? Some shit that a nigga is making? What do you expect? Itâs not supposed to make sense. I donât think about that shit, I donât care. I care about the people that live around the corner from me and my family. Because at the end of the day you start caring about that big shit itâs not going to do nothing⊠Unless you wanna get shot. I ainât tryinâ to get shot. I got niggas that wanna kill me. I donât need no niggas with aim trying to do some shit to me, âFuck all that.â
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DX: If somebodyâs from another part of L.A., what should they know about Long Beach?
Vince Staples: I donât know. Take it how you want it, but Iâm gonna tell them what happened. Itâs like a movie, bro. Me watching Goodfellas did not make me want to go be Italian. I was just like, âDamn, that shitâs crazy.â Thatâs all I need. A, âDamn, that shitâs crazy.â But, I mean, Long Beach ainât never change. We got a college. We got a mall in Lakewood and we got some dirty ass beaches. And we got Fourth street and Ocean where the rich people live. Other than that niggas is gangbanginâ. It ainât gonna be in the news, but go to presstelegram.com, and niggas is gangbanginâ and Long Beach will never change because thatâs what they set up the city to do. High Schools got the colors of niggas that bang over there. All the teams. The baseball team are the niggas that bang at that park. The football team are the niggas that bang at this park. Thatâs just what it is. Itâs never gonna stop. So, Snoop Dogg can still Rap because it ainât changed. But a lot of these niggas arenât putting this forward from a genuine place, though. My homies have died over this shit, and not just trying to be hard, just being yourself. So, this shit, it means something to me. Thatâs what I can say. I want them to know that it means something to me and try to learn from my mistakes. I ainât have no music to listen to when I was younger. All the music we had when we were younger just made us want to go and kill niggas. From Game to 50 to all of that. Thatâs all we had, and Kanye. Other than that, who else?
Vince Staples Shows How The Internet âCrippledâ PeopleÂ
DX: With the Internet, man, fans have more power than everâŠ
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Vince Staples: The Internet is a crazy animal. The Internet fucked up people, though. Everybody got a voice and people are dying over the Internet. For real. Iâve seen it. People are snitching on the Internet. Somebody dies, youâre gonna find out in 15 minutes who did it just by Googling something or searching on Twitter his name. âRest in peace to the homie, fuckâ and woop, woop, woop âyou a bitch.â Thatâs really how itâs going down, now. The Internet is weird. I try to stay off that.
DX: You donât use it a lot?
Vince Staples: Hell no. I Tweet from my phone. I get on my computer to listen to shit my engineer sends me and to watch Daylyte battles, but other than that I canât man. Thereâs just too much going on. Put it like this, my little brother doing 15 years off of trying to prove something and got caught because he was too âout there.â But, I feel like it crippled people. I swear to God someone can know exactly who you are, you can have a conversation with them and when you see them theyâre not going to say anything to you but theyâre going to Tweet you like, âEh, I just seen you over here.â Thatâs stupid! But thatâs really what it is. Itâs probably happened to everybody in this room. So, fuck you ainât say nothing? I was at the L.A. County fair and somebody took a picture of the back of my head and then Tweeted me like, âIs this you?â I was at Paid Dues and got a Tweet with somebody asking, âEh, is this you?â He took a picture of me and sent it to me. And thereâs no service here so youâve probably been trying to get that through for a minute. And, you gonna ask me if thatâs me.
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Vince Staples Discusses Internet Rap & Bobby Shmurda
DX: So does it make strange with people Tweet you or come to your shows?
Vince Staples: They be actinâ weird. âI know you donât like me or you probably hate me.â Man, I donât know who you are! What are you talking about? Iâm not famous so I walk around after my shows, even before, and people stare at me and itâs like, âWhatâs up? You can walk over here. Iâm not gonna sock you or nothing.â But human interaction is such a weird thing now-a-days because thereâs so much online interaction. Motherfuckers think Iâm shorter than Earl little ass because of the way some pictures are set up on the Internet. Perception, itâs gets skewed, kind of. It does get us where we are, so you have to accept it to a certain extent. It helps and hurts at the same time. Itâs a glass ceiling with the online shit. Thereâs a gang of rappers whoâre poppinâ online, a million Twitter followers, 2 million [Youtube] views, [but] you will never hear a nigga bumpinâ they music in the car, ever. Itâs laptop rap, but youâre never gonna hear it outside. And that doesnât mean itâs not good, it just means the listeners put it in that box, like, âthis is what I listen to in the house.â If you pay attention to the Internet, Drake ainât got no fans. Big Sean has no fans, Wale has no fans, J Cole has no fans. J Cole is the worst rapper alive if you listen to the Internet. But why is [Drake] going platinum? Why are these niggas selling out all these big-ass-shows? But the niggas thatâs cool on the Internet can barely pack out a venue? So it gives you a false sense of reality.
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DX: But people are out here getting deals off the Internet. Bobby Shmurda, for example.
Vince Staples: I fuck with Bobby Shmurda, because if someoneâs going to give you a million dollars, fuck it, give it to âem. Itâs not hurtinâ me. Let that nigga get some bread. But then again itâs crazy because what are you going to fuck that nigga life up for? Because you want to be first? Because itâs only like three artists on all these labels thatâs making all the money. They probably got some country singer thatâs boominâ, some pop shit and, probably one rapper, probably. But youâre basing the label around a few people making money and you being able to piece their money together to make everybody else shit work. So they donât really care what happens. It ainât like when you sign for two million dollars theyâre just putting two million dollars in your hands and then saying, âHere you go. See you later.â But, you never know. It could pan out, it could not pan out. Nobody was taking Drake seriously when he first came out and thatâs the biggest artist out right now. He was corny, he was the kid from Degrassi. He was a joke and now three or four years at the mostâŠ
Vince Staples On Why âBecause⊠The Internetâ Was The Album of 2013Â
DX: How do you feel about other quote unquote Internet Rappers like Donald Glover?
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Vince Staples: You know whatâs funny? Donald Glover (I call that dude Donald Glover because thatâs a hard ass rap name), I ainât hear no Donald Glover songs. And then â3005â be on the radio all the time, and I did not know it was him. And I listened to a song and I was like, âThis is hard,â because he was talking about Lebronâs mamaâs boyfriend. And then this person that I work with was like, âOh, thatâs Childish Gambino.â I said, âDonald Glover?â And then I listened to his shit months ago, and that shit is so hard. What year did that come out? 2013? What else came out that year, Rap albums?Â
DX: Yeezus, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Run The Jewels, My Name Is My Name⊠It was a good year.
Vince Staples: So, GKMC came out in 2012, right? That was the best album of 2013, the Donald Glover one.
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DX: Why do you say that?
Vince Staples: Because it was. What else is up there, Yeezus? Yeah. He know how to rap and the song sound good, fuck the rest. Itâs not no bullshit and the song structure is good. The way he puts it together is good. Itâs a good-ass-album. I donât even know when it came out, but I got that motherfucker. Got it on iTunes, got the CD. I went and splurged. And the videos are tight.
DX: Would you ever want to work with him in the future?
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Vince Staples: I donât necessarily want to work with anyone, but I would. The reason I donât put a lot of people on my songs is that my shit be specific as to the order and stuff like that. I want specific people to be on certain things, but itâs usually just my homies because I want a specific voice. I donât want use anyone, though. 90% of features is because you want to use a motherfucker for his name. So thatâs why I wouldnât be like, âCome get on my songâŠâ unless I had something specifically for them like I did with the Jhene shit, like I did with the Fauntelroy shit. But if I had something, definitely. If he asked for a verse, quick, Iâd pass it in a hurry.Â
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