Vince Staples Explains Vince Staples

Vince Stapless 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 rappers Blue Flame (Remix). Staples, who is on the cover of our new Summer Music issue, has emerged as one of contemporary raps most compelling storytellers, spinning an adolescence spent in service of Long Beachs 2N Crips into several hardrattling mi br, br,