Vince Staples & The Trailer Park Boys

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

[r] This week, we're bringing you a couple of Jesse's favorite past interviews. First up: Vince Staples! The Long Beach rapper is a legend nowadays, with his two critically acclaimed records Summertime '06 and Big Fish Theory. Vince came into the Bullseye studios back in 2014, when he had just a couple mixtapes to his name. Even then at 20, Vince was brilliant, funny and brutally honest. Then we go way back - back to 2009, when Jesse recorded the show out of his apartment in LA. The guests? The Trailer Park Boys, Canadian comedy legends. John Paul Tremblay, Robb Well and Mike Smith play Julian, Ricky and Bubbles, respectively. In a rare feat of comedic ninjutsu, they talk with Jesse *entirely* in character. Finally: Winter is coming, but who cares? Jesse tells you why Game of Thrones is about the journey, not the destination.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.0	Vince Staples is one of the biggest rappers on the West Coast right now.
0:19.4	He's put out a few albums, few DPs and mixed tapes.
0:23.5	The classic Vince Staples song is dark, brooding, brutally honest, sharply observed and often funny.
0:31.5	Suicide is a recurring theme in a lot of his verses.
0:35.1	Except when it comes to Twitter maybe he isn't particularly outgoing.
0:39.0	He says that makes it pretty easy for people to get the wrong impression about him.
0:43.4	I'm one of those people that everyone knows that's like, what's wrong?
0:46.4	I'm straight.
0:47.4	But it's just, I mean, it's just a lot of behaviors out of the day.
0:50.2	Because I'd be chillin' like, everybody's, I'm like a lot of people, I see people say like,
0:53.2	oh, he's so depressed, sad, like, I'm never sad.
0:57.3	Like, nothing can affect me that much.
0:58.8	It's Bullseye.
1:07.3	Coming up we'll talk with Vince Staples about his writing process, how he came into music and how
1:11.8	even though he was jumped into a gang as a kid, he doesn't think street life is anything to brag about.
1:17.3	I mean, I bid nay like, in all disrespect intended, like a lot of rappers are liars.
1:22.0	You can't be hard 24-7.
1:24.0	It's not fun, it's not cool, you just look corny, because that's how you die.
1:27.8	Those are the ones that die.
1:29.4	Then I'll talk with the trailer park boys.
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