Vince Staples Calls Out Fans Who Hate on Experimental Rap Albums: ‘You Don’t Know Enough About Hip-Hop’
Vince Staples claps back at all the noise online from people who say rappers can’t experiment with their music and call it hip-hop. For rock music specifically, Vince Staples argued that The Isley Brothers and James Brown were foundational to acts like The Who and The Stooges. At the end of the day, it’s just music. So when someone tries to argue he might be “abandoning hip-hop”, he shrugs it off as noise on the internet from people who don’t know any better. “I just let people say what they want to say. We have to be honest about conversations. There’s a difference between a conversation and a social media thing that’s based on engagement… So I don’t think you can kind of get too much in their business or what they’re arguing about,” Vince Staples said. He has been consistent on this viewpoint for years, arguing that the idea of a ‘rockstar’ all the way back in 2015 didn’t mean the…