Vince Staples
Vince Staples: ‘I’m talking about is real life. Not entertainment’
The Californian rapper has returned to his old LA stomping ground for new album Ramona Park Broke My Heart. It’s typically dextrous and incisive, but he asks that you check your voyeurism before listening
Michael Segalov
19, Apr, 2022 @7:00 AM
On my radar: Vince Staples’s cultural highlights
The LA rapper and actor on the growing pains of Pen15, one-to-watch Reggie Helms Jr and escaping from it all along the Pacific Coast Highway
Kathryn Bromwich
25, Jul, 2021 @7:00 AM
Vince Staples: Vince Staples review – mellifluous west coast nihilism
The California rapper’s most accessible album yet captures the tenderness at play within the clammy tensions of LA
Damien Morris
11, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
Vince Staples: Vince Staples review – inventive rapper still walks own path
The Long Beach MC has repeatedly shunned fame – and this spectral take on his region’s G-funk, paired with conversational lyrics, deepens his outsider appeal
Alexis Petridis
01, Jul, 2021 @3:00 PM
Vince Staples review – lean, hard rap with a west coast bounce
The California rapper’s stark, rave-informed tunes transcend hip-hop cliches
Kitty Empire
03, Sep, 2017 @9:00 AM
Vince Staples review – big fish of rap hooks leaping crowd
Kentish Town Forum, London
The LA rapper cuts his hypnotic choruses with racial commentary while flinging about the stage with enough energy to inspire the mosh pit
The LA rapper cuts his hypnotic choruses with racial commentary while flinging about the stage with enough energy to inspire the mosh pit
Ian McQuaid
31, Aug, 2017 @10:21 AM
Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory review – good vibrations and gunfire
The rapper and former Crip’s urgent second album juxtaposes California sunshine with the horrors of gang life
Kitty Empire
25, Jun, 2017 @8:00 AM
Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory review – dazzling flow makes grim truths glitter
Kate Hutchinson
23, Jun, 2017 @8:00 AM
Vince Staples: 'I started gangbanging because I wanted to kill people’
A member of the Crips in his teenage years, the reformed California rapper now spends his time stripping the glamour from gang culture. He wishes the media would do the same
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
26, Oct, 2015 @9:00 AM
Five albums to try this week: Vince Staples, Cradle of Filth and more
Stream five new releases, from Little Boots’ electropop to Ahmad Jamal’s piano jazz, and let us know what you’ll be listening to
Tshepo Mokoena
13, Jul, 2015 @10:29 AM
Vince Staples: Summertime '06 review – idiosyncratic, impressive solo rap effort
Brooding and menacing, Vince Staples’ debut takes an unflinching tour around his Long Beach, LA neighbourhood
Lanre Bakare
09, Jul, 2015 @9:00 PM
What's bugging rapper Vince Staples? Fame and fortune not a selling point
Hip-hop artist is rising to the top of a ‘freshman’ class with his highly anticipated debut Summertime ’06 – but success takes on a deeper meaning
Amanda Holpuch
26, Jun, 2015 @5:28 PM
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