Vince Staples
Vince Staples
Vince Staplesis an American rapper from Long Beach, California. He is one-third of the hip hop group Cutthroat Boyz, alongside fellow California rappers Joey Fatts and Aston Matthews. Staples was also known as a close associate of Odd Future, in particular Mike G and Earl Sweatshirt. Staples is currently signed to Blacksmith Records, ARTium Recordings and Def Jam Recordings. He came to prominence with his appearances on albums by Odd Future members and his collaborative mixtape titled Stolen Youth, with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth2 July 1993
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.
At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.
What's important to me is people just being people.
Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.
When people ask me my influences and I'm like, "nobody" they're like, "there has to be somebody." People seem to think you have to have an influence.
I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.
Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."
Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.
There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.