JAY-Z has given Vince Staples his flowers. Hov saluted the Long Beach rapper’sRamona Park Broke My Heart album in a message relayed by Brian “B. Dot” Miller.
Vince Staples recently joined B. Dot and Elliott Wilson for the latest episode of the Rap Radar podcast where Miller revealed Hov’s championing of Vince and his brilliance as an artist.
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“To be honest with you, full disclosure,” B. Dot Began. “JAY-Z was the one who told me and put me on to your album. [He] said it was ‘beautiful.’ And he was like calling you one of the smartest, most creative rappers out there in the game right now.”
A stoic Staples didn’t have much reaction to Jay’s co-sign as he doesn’t put much stock into people’s opinions on his music, whether that be a rap deity like Hov praising his work or fans on social media bashing him.
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“If I’m impartial to if people like it, I’m for sure impartial if you don’t like it. I feel like everyone’s entitled to their opinion,” he explained. “Once you put something out into the universe and you selling something, it’s okay for people to say if they like it or don’t like it.
“That’s not really why I make music. I don’t really care how nobody feel about nothing, to be 100 percent honest. I appreciate them listening and that’s as far as it goes like how people feel.”
Ramona Park Broke My Heart arrived in April 2022 — less than a year after Staples delivered his Kenny Beats-produced self-titled effort to cement his move from Def Jam to Motown and Blacksmith Records.
The 29-year-old explained he was working on both albums simultaneously but pivoted to completing his self-titled LP once he ran out of studio money from his label for Ramona Park.
Luckily, the 2021 self-titled effort convinced Motown to fund Ramona Park Broke My Heart so he could finish the introspective album.
RPBMH debuted at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 and boasted 16 tracks with features from Ty Dolla $ign, DJ Mustard and Lil Baby.
