Vince Staples: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bobby Carter, July 23, 2021 At the midpoint of Vince Staples Tiny Desk (home) concert, he gazes through the sunsoaked windows of his Hollywood Hills location and pauses. You should see this view I don t live here, he exclaims with pride. I would never live As to why he wouldn t give in to the spoils of success and relocate to a fancy spot in the Hills or Calabasas, he explains in the lyrics of the song that follows, THE SHINING : I could never do it, I m too active. That sentiment, the pushpull relationship with his North Long Beach home base, is a dominant theme of his new selftitled album, which he tells NPR is the clearest expression yet of who he Despite yearslong demand from our audience on YouTube, this was the p