One of 2015's best rap albums lands today, and it comes from a guy who claims to not even care all that much about rap music. For more than five years, Vince Staples, a 21-year-old Long Beach native, has been turning heads with sharp-tongued ruminations about his Ramona Park Legend past, police brutality, and black culture. By embracing his gangbanger upbringing — a "soldier since the stroller," he raps — Staples has landed himself a record deal with Def Jam and a role in Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance hit Dope. His freshly released debut double album, Summertime '06, serves as a letter to the city that raised him — part love, part good-bye. Vulture recently talked to Staples about Summertime, his hilarious cameo in Dope, and what he makes of the shooting in Charleston.How did you get involved with Dope? You play a character who’s almost your polar opposite: A$AP...
- 6/30/2015
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
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