Vince Staples Says Rappers Are Going To Try To Imitate Young Thug

When Vince Staples looks at the landscape of Rap, he says it’s hard to find music he likes beyond a couple of artists.

“We’ve been on the new 2 Chainz a little bit and Young Thug hard,” Vince Staples says in an interview with Tino Cochino of Phoenix, Arizona’s Power 98.3. “It ain’t nothin’ out, man. I just don’t be looking’. You gotta look hard, bruh.”

Staples says it’s even more difficult because rappers tend to copy styles.

“You got the Migos song and then everybody do the Migos songs,” he says. “Then you got Young Thug so everybody’s ’bout do Young Thug songs, which is gonna be very hard to do.”

When asked if others are imitating his style, Staples says he doesn’t get copied just yet.

“I ain’t poppin’,” he says. “I’m regular, bro. I’m telling you. We grind-mode.”

Part of that grind mode includes Shyne Coldchain II, a project that earned a 4 out of 5 in its HipHopDX review this year.

“Vince Staples is a pleasant anomaly to a Rap game often watered down by acts seeking attention for everything except quality music,” HipHopDX says of the release. “Full of slappers from relevant producer turned Def Jam higher up No I.D., Shyne Coldchain 2 serves as an appetizer prepping for an anticipated retail album from Staples on the powerhouse label.”

Earlier this year, Staples also spoke with HipHopDX about biters. “We got 80 Migos songs out,” he said. “Everybody want to be the Migos and all the sucker shit.”

11 thoughts on “Vince Staples Says Rappers Are Going To Try To Imitate Young Thug”

People copy styles yes. This is a problem. But fans don’t want to check out new artists. Partly because 95% of the shit on the internet is hot garbage but also because hip-hop fans seem to gravitate towards names they know. Used to be annoying fans claiming “they liked so and so before they were famous.” Now it’s just fans listening to whatever everyone else is listening to.

Anonymous says:

August 1, 2014 at 5:08 AM

NO, YOU ONLY SPEAKING ABOUT FOLLOWERS LIKE YOURSELF THAT HAVE NO IDENTITY

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too bad Young Thug already is copying Future’s style.

Anonymous says:

August 1, 2014 at 1:59 AM

and lil waynes, his idol,

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Wasn’t a fan of Vince Staples music at first but after hearing those verses on Common’s new album might have to re look at his work.

Vince shits all over the wack niggas he listens to, Young Thug is so fucking gay and sounds like a chicken and 2 Chainz sounds like he’s retarded

Anonymous says:

August 1, 2014 at 5:12 AM

MIGOS ARE THE WORST GROUP EVER. IT FIGURES THAT THEY ARE POPULAR IN THE CLUBS.

YOUNG THUG WEARS SPANDEX AND WOMEN CAPRIS LIKE LIL WAYNE DOES.

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Just a whole new generation of weak ass niggas now.When I was comin up I had niggas like Dogg pound, No limit, Scarface, 8ball n mjg, three6 mafia, droppin albums hard n shit. Now these kids got these wimp niggas with no bars or flow. Its sad really.