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- Examining the music and philosophy of rapper Vince Staples.
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People like Vince don’t want you to idolise him, only wants you to do you.
“How do you convince yourself that it’s ok to live in poverty?”:- that quote is as powerful as it gets.
This shit hits different when you come from south central LA 💯
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@@_donjose not only South central LA . I've listened to Vince since 2013 through Earl and I can firmly say this , because I'm in South Africa 🇿🇦 and that question is a cut and clear and deep as it gets because it's right there
Powerful. I feel like people won't truly appreciate his voice until he's gone . Mfs be addicted to a death culture unfortunately.
That's gonna be a LONG time in that case. Vince is gonna die an old ass man after living a full life.
I’m sad that it happened to MF Doom. I loved his music
@@dboyedoe facts. Just hope the masses wll give him his flowers before then🤞
Those people aren't worth impressing. On a certain level Hip Hop fans need to look at themselves. At some point the best and most talented will find other genres of art to express that talent. Because increasingly Hip Hop and its fans don't deserve the best and most talented artists anymore.
@@bluewave3417 who are you to judge? Seriously get off your High Horse and Let people Grow into Music naturally.
Man I can relate. I tell my wife I had a good two three-year run of fighting everyday. You be tired. Tired of looking behind you. Physically tired from fighting. Mentally exhausted from always being in survival mode, or even a defensive mode.
What immediately drew me in to Vinces music was his way of rapping. His lyrics contain things that wider society would consider abhorrent but he says it all so matter of factly. Really gives insight about the experiences he's had growing up.
“We just have to know more about each other before we speak on each other”
Simple as that
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I think Vince’s best example of this artistically, was his album big fish. That self titled track off the album had so many great metaphors about being a big fish in a little pond. Both a braggadocios and humble statement. And he finally gave us “crabs in a bucket” another great metaphor he’s referenced a few times before. Seniorita also really spoke on what he was saying as far as “ what’s an action movie without an explosion?”
wow great video. i love vince staples. so real, so funny, and his music and lyrics are real.
Theres a this clip is when he said that people dont gove gifts to be kind, they do it just to please their own egos. Look at how they react when they give you something. Mind blown!🤯🤯🤯🤯
how they react?
He cool but he ain't inventing 'Indian giving' its a fully accepted human behavior since time began
@@tomwilko7841 thats not "Indian giving" - the term was for giving gifts and then taking them back
I wasn’t ashamed being from the ghetto and I didn’t make it my personality, I believe my mother raised me right in standing up for others and being happy with what you got
If Vince dropped an hour long interview or an hour long album.....I'm copping the interview. I say that as a person who still buys music and enjoy Vince's music. Music limits his expression. I wish he had a producer he could work with to craft one single body of work that best captured his mind and then he can move on to the bigger work he's here to do. in my opinion. He's as eloquent and potent and poignant as Pac and Nip. That's good bad company. Get him out of LA and out of Hip Hop and somewhere else where he can keep impacting the world.
110%
He's getting closer to it. I think he could do it with Kenny Beats but they would have to really hunker down
Vince knows.
Work for yourself. Improve for yourself. Learn for yourself.
You really have everything to blame and everything to gain by yourself.
Everything else falls in place.
Bow this is what i need more of stuff like this gives me hope
When summer 06 was out, I loved that album even slightly more than TPAB. As a guy who lives in poverty, in other country, he’s songs still talking deep into me. Never knew he said this much outside of his music so, thanks for the video.
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Great analysis, top notch quality.
Honestly appreciate that. Means I’m heading in the right direction. Thanks for watching and supporting.
This was such an amazing video, I look forward to watching all your other ones!
His verse on the end of "Hive" was what drew me to him, but his whole catalog is FIRE.
One thing stuck with me is an interview back in the day where he said that he only raps when he needs to get something off of his chest, made me really think about the music I was making at the time and really made me step up my game and be more introspective in my writing. I have a lot of respect for Vinny
I've only really heard his name, never the music or message behind it. Thank you so much for showing me this guy, this is what music lacks and I'm all for it
This was a good video. Very well explained. I think Jean Baudrillard's theory of hyperrealism fits the narrative Vince describes with regards to the fan who consumes black trauma content for pleasure without any actual interaction with the content.
Check out my Nope Video for that discussion
Never disappoints 🔥
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the realest person out there and i respect him a lot for that.
Glad this video was created.
Thanks man
Stick around and check out my other essays! Thanks for watching
Amazingly insightful essay. Thank you for making this.
Beautiful video man, I love it.
U did a great job with this short doc… I subbed in and hope for more greatness from you!!!
Thank you!!!
you did an awesome job editing this video
This video was so beautiful man. Keep it going
Vince Staples offers so much to music, but it's his intellectual perspective and awareness that truly separates his message from that of his peers
now this is a well done real ass shit need people need to see type vid
Amazing video man
this was so good thank you
That explains why people don't like my rap Playlist. I be playing Vince and Tyler. Love the introspective raps.
Very inspirational piece Thank you
I like Vince a lot, and in interviews he shows his cleverness, but tbh, his songs are the same gangster shit as everyone else's. He might feel critical of it and write from the heart as therapy, but he still makes his past life sound profound and purpose-giving instead of the rotten, soul-crushing hell it must have been in retrospect. He also has outright Crips ads with TeeCee DaLoc
I was thinking the same thing, he's an american in entertainment, and most artists are put on a high pedestal because they can do "artsy thing" at the end of the day. It's kind of ironic the essayist is trying to portray nihilism as a deep and profound ideology also lmao. At least Vince has money so he can shit talk the haters, that's the true american delusion real living!
I appreciate the thoughts here! I’d argue that his take is one that runs contrary to the popular forms of gangster rap. The nihilism aspect is part of what makes it unique, in that we compartmentalize the entertainment factor. Vince is an embodiment of that lifestyle, a cold blooded killer who understands just how depraved what we’re consuming is. He was a victim and perpetrator of it and his music should scare us. Not putting him on s pedestal but using as an example against that lifestyle. But yes, he is profiting from that lifestyle he lived through his music because we want to consume it. It’s self fulfilling in a sense. Thank you for watching!
Great essay on a fantastic artist and mind
underrated rapper
Great video, you have me looking at rap in a different way
Young man got it. I need to listen to his music.
good video, put a lot of ideas on paper that resonated and connected. keep doing u, great work.
You got people that it’s real to, that don’t wanna talk about it. They got people that ain’t never done it that loves talking about it
Great content man. I'm gonna check this young brother's music out.
Great video well put together 💯
I don’t know why he’s isn’t bigger. He’s one of the greatest of this generation. 🙌🏿
i love your analysis. Great explanation too. Props
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From my time in studio up till now in CA I caught that, but one thing for you guys ya know we all got homies since middle school right can’t do everything they be doing but I found myself only focused on the music an one day somebody in there who was banging an everything else said you know that’s why we like him around here, cuz even though he’s around it he doesn’t try to act like it or put himself on it, also knows we’ve chosen to do bad but you won’t do it just to be cool. If you got a similar situation keep your integrity you will always get respect for being yourself you ain gotta fake the funk an be thug to do this shit an get daps an people tipping hats man fr
Great video
Thanks!
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He real fort this.... The same people who have interests in music production companies and labels are the same ones who have interests in the prison system. The same music that those parties makes money from is the same party who is benefitting from raps influence. Every time a young kid who gets influenced by drill or gangster rap and gets locked up because of it, they fill their pockets from both ends.
"The radio don't play the shit I used to love, or maybe I'm just growing up" - Big KRIT - The Vent
"you gotta figure a way out how to not feel ashamed of who you are & where you come from" Dang I never heard it worded that way (Eminem voice: "I can't think of a perfecter way to word it" [LTS])
His Ray J hypothesis was great
10/10 video man keep it up
Great video and commentary bro!
A part of me feels like Schoolboy Q's music is similar to Vince's. A lot of his songs talk about street and gang shit but its done in a manner where it feels ominous. Like you dont feel like its being glorified. Instead its being portrayed as being evil almost. Idk maybe im wrong.
Just saw 3 minutes of this cat on Hot Ones, and knew for a fact he's realer than 99% of 'em.
Great video bro, Keep working!!
Thank you! Much appreciated
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This is great work...🔥
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what do you know about black culture?
“Until you got some money you ain’t shit” n that’s how it is unfortunately
BEAUTIFUL
This is a masterpiece
Vince - lift me up is a classic
This video made me subscribe
I am here for Vince Staples content
This was incredible. Wow
Vince low key is a philosophical/poetic rapper
mate i am inspired by your lupe video and your STYLE much impress very like
Thank you!!!! Really appreciate it. I’ll be uploading a new film analysis soon so stay tuned!
Your videos are fantastic
so dope so well done
The message was traded for a paycheck, and here's the unpopular opinion of the month, that paycheck above all else mentality started with the Wu Tang Clan.
Such a good video
Dude to real is all I can say
Excellent vid on Vince!! . First of your content I've seen, and it was great!!! Had to Sub! Folks hit them subs up!
Vince the sociologist -philospher
10:07 Interesting scene choice lol
I don't agree with all of Vince's takes, but he is very thought provoking!
I feel like he was one if those kids that when he got in trouble he say what you yellin for??
I 💙 Vince Staples
Why you using the beat from neighbors know my name tho at 7:30 lmaooooo
This was really good thanks for making it
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
deep
Wow, this hit me hard
This was dope.
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Respect
Didn't know maurice is a rapper
Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood
uhh, no mention of shyne coldchain?
This is ❤
I didn’t know nothing about staples tell now….
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He learned from the best, Mac Miller. He watched his demise first hand I believe.
Vince staples is the black half of Logic
I don't think he's a nihilist, I think he's a realist.
As in really nihilist
I like it.
Video was great I love Vince music and interviews bruh a good dude in general, but I wasn’t prepared for the Plies and Akon Hypnotized instrumental 🤣🤣
Appreciate the time and work you put into this. Great watch! 🫡
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theirs a reason why the CIA funded gangsta rap in the 90s
"Summertime, '06" was Vince at his most seemingly nihilistic, but "Ramona Park Broke My Heart" kinda shows that was a facade.. a mask to disguise the hidden pain and tears of a "Stolen Youth." It's warm and nostalgic. Vince is definitely cynical, but he has a moral center. A drill rapper, he is not.
Great comment thank you. I completely agree regarding his moral center. I believe that the quote from Nietzsche is used to describe the one who can live morally, despite the immorality around him, as ubermensche. A drill rapper is one consumed by the abyss, not one who has overcome it like Staples
@@kazmaloop Honestly fuck Nietzche as this point. Stirner and Novatore are the better demonstrations of nihilism.
You can have morals and be a nihlist. Nihlism can be viewed as believing that the universe does not care. In an uncaring world, people can still help each other or hurt each other.
Listen to shyne cold chain 1
@@TheZademann nihilism bases itself on the idea that there are no moral principles. Nietzsche was grappling with the fact that if this is the case how do we live justly. Many people don’t know what it means to truly live without the belief in moral value. Most people grow up with the religious framework even if they’re irreligious. I think children who grow in the harsh reality painted by Staples and can still be kind are those beacons of hope.
Great video man
Great video
I hate fake rap. Drake talking about bullets, gang members talking about club life or bitches. Depressed dudes tryna sound happy, happy tryna sound depressed. Vince’s music is honest and direct, and I love how music changes with the artist.
Drake is a “the lover” archetype not a “rebel” he makes lover boi type music
Even though its not rap I’ve always felt that “happy tryna be depressed” about Billie Ellish music. Theres a clear difference between someone happy making depressed music and a depressed person making depressed music
@@koldheartedbam1064he definitely dissed xxx. He definitely does gun bars. His media music is lovey. But he acts like a gangster even though he high key fruity.