Vince Staples Explains Vince Staples

Vince Staples’s Twitter bio has been the same Lil B quote for a while. “I get mad cause the world don’t understand me. That’s the price I had to pay for this rap game,” it reads, its mission statement borrowed from the opening few seconds of the Oakland rapper’s “Blue Flame (Remix).” Staples, who is on the cover of our new Summer Music issue, has emerged as one of contemporary rap’s most compelling storytellers, spinning an adolescence spent in service of Long Beach’s 2N Crips into several hard-rattling mi
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