Vince Staples holds Hip Hop in high regard.
“Hip Hop is the most imitated, most influential, most creative, most underappreciated, underrespected music form there is,” the 22-year-old rapper says in an interview with Fader.
The Long Beach, California rapper compares the genre to a home-cooked meal that a child doesn’t appreciate.
“You want to go to McDonald’s because your mom always cooks,” Staples says. “You want chicken motherfucking McNuggets.”
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The emcee, whose debut album Summer ’06is due June 30, says that he makes intense music to inform people about the realities of life in the inner city.
“As much as people listen to YG, they wouldn’t go to Compton,” he says.
“It’s documented about gang culture in these neighborhoods, but nobody sees it,” the 2015 XXL Freshman continues. “You can watch the news all day and see and hear about terrorism or the war going on. You’re never going to care until you feel it happening close up, until we get a 9/11, until ISIS threatens, or there’s North Korea and nuclear threats. That’s what this album is to me.”
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