Vince Staples by Vince Staples
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Rapper Vince Staples joins us this week upon the release of his latest album! In-between listening to his work, we discuss music as “product management” (7:30), the virtue of Russell Westbrook (8:45), centering oneself in gratitude (13:08), creating opportunities within the YMCA Youth Institute in Long Beach (17:50), Staple’s support system within the industry (22:36), as well as his relationship with his mother and father (26:06). Then, before we leave, Vince reflects on the passing of loved ones (30:28) and his hope for a richer humanity (38:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigoso. Welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by rapper Vince Staples. Born in Compton, raised in North Long Beach, |
| 0:49.4 | Staples has been making music since his mid-teens starting in 2014. It was never his plan to be a rapper |
| 0:57.2 | though. He had no grand ambitions to one day perform on stage in front of thousands of strangers. |
| 1:05.0 | In the early days, Vince says, |
| 1:07.6 | rapping was just a way of making my mom less worried. |
| 1:11.6 | Basically, if he was making music, it meant he wasn't on the street, getting |
| 1:16.8 | into what he likes to call a bunch of stupid shit. That stupid shit, his words, not mine by the way, is in part the focus of his new record, |
| 1:29.5 | self-titled, Vin Stapels. It's now out and available wherever you buy or stream your music. |
| 1:36.0 | This is a clip from a track called Are You With That? |
| 1:40.0 | City Gonna. |
| 1:42.0 | So you better bus, |
| 1:44.0 | finish you really wanna us, ready spilling blood. |
| 1:46.0 | Everybody tough. |
| 1:48.0 | To they gotta go and see the judge. |
| 1:49.0 | N'a better hush. |
| 1:50.0 | Never growing up. |
| 1:51.0 | All I wanted was to be a tug. |
| 1:53.0 | To get a little bread. |
| 1:55.0 | Shoot a couple niggas in their hair. |
| 1:57.0 | Still outside. I don't hide from this year for life. |
| 2:00.0 | Had the fight for my life |
| 2:03.0 | them his and strike if I die for the guys had my candle like going up |
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