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Vince Staples

February 2024

  • Vince Staples (right) with Kareem Grimes as Uncle Mike in The Vince Staples Show

    TV review
    The Vince Staples Show review – this joyously weird comedy is ludicrously suave

    The semi-autobiographical sitcom from the musician/actor is a wonderfully surreal exercise in Black creativity. It’s a totally idiosyncratic vision that takes you on a wild ride. Buckle up!

April 2022

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    Vince Staples: ‘People look at Black people like we’re 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

July 2021

  • Vince Staples.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Vince Staples’s cultural highlights

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    Vince Staples: Vince Staples review – mellifluous west coast nihilism

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    The month's best album reviews
    Laura Mvula, Martha Argerich and more: July’s best album reviews

  • Taking it personal ... Vince Staples.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Vince Staples: Vince Staples review – inventive rapper still walks own path

September 2017

  • Vince Staples at Kentish Town Forum.

    Vince Staples review – lean, hard rap with a west coast bounce

    The California rapper’s stark, rave-informed tunes transcend hip-hop cliches

August 2017

  • Contradictions … Vince Staples performs hits from his Big Fish Theory album and earlier work at the O2 Forum.

    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

June 2017

  • Vince Staples 9 June 2017

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory review – good vibrations and gunfire

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    Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory review – dazzling flow makes grim truths glitter

October 2015

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    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

July 2015

  • Rapper Vince Staples during Wireless festival in July 2015.

    Listen up
    Five albums to try this week: Vince Staples, Cradle of Filth and more

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    Vince Staples: Summertime '06 review – idiosyncratic, impressive solo rap effort

June 2015

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    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
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