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If we are to take his lyrical content at anything close to face value-and I do-he's lived a full life already. Staples is fulfilling our need for storytellers who catalog and pass down information so that cultural references and points in geography can live on, even when the geography itself doesn't. But another has to do with the type of institutional knowledge that comes with living a life in a place-particularly if it is a place under siege by violence both structural and otherwise.

One reading of the Mayor is a simple trope about respecting elders, and I'm sure that's part of the narrative.

He had lived in the community long enough to have finally found purpose among his graveyard of regrets: transmitting information to the Hood's younger inhabitants, even when they dismiss him. Played by Ossie Davis, the Mayor is presented as someone both deeply flawed but still somewhat loved. The most commonly understood rendition of this is the character of the Mayor in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. The work of Vince Staples is also the work of a Hood archetype: the griot on a porch or outside of a corner store who keeps the oral tradition of a place alive. When a person's story becomes impossible to believe, it becomes harder to find empathy for that person within ourselves. If you cannot drag someone to the places of your past and show them where you were once a younger you, they will not believe your story. But another major, often unaddressed victim of gentrification is generational memory. There are, of course, the visible costs to gentrification: People are displaced, old haunts become new luxuries, a city eventually swallows the bodies that made it exciting and interesting. The effort featured contributions by Bon Iver, Kilo Kish, Juicy J, Damon Albarn, Kendrick Lamar, Sophie, Flume, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, Ty Dolla $ign, and more.If you are lucky enough to be from anywhere considered the Hood, and if you or your people have lived there long enough, you might understand the need for archives. In 2017, in addition to featuring on the Gorillaz album, Humanz, Staples issued his sophomore album, Big Fish Theory. Again breaking into the Top Ten on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart, the EP featured production by James Blake and an accompanying short film. The following summer, Staples released Prima Donna, a seven-track EP that featured A$AP Rocky and Kilo Kish. It rose to number three on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart and was selected as one of the top albums of 2015 on many notable year-end lists.

2, and contributions to Common's Nobody's Smiling - specifically on the key single "Kingdom," as well as on the deluxe edition bonus track "Out on Bond." His debut album, Summertime '06, landed in 2015 with production from Clams Casino and No ID. Among Staples' assists in 2013 were verses on Earl Sweatshirt's Doris and Jhené Aiko's "The Vapors." The rapper continued his steady ascent in 2014 with a fourth mixtape, Shyne Goldchain, Vol. Staples then performed as the opening act on Miller's Space Migration tour.
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A darker, more introspective mixtape, Stolen Youth, arrived in 2013 with a co-billing to Larry Fisherman (a Mac Miller alias) and verses from Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q, Mac Miller (as Mac Miller), and Cutthroat Boyz partner Joey Fatts.
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In 2012, the rapper released Winter in Prague, a mixtape issued as a free download with the production work handled entirely by Michael Uzowuru. American rapper and member of the Cutthroat Boyz crew, Vince Staples surfaced in the early 2010s with a spate of promising appearances on Odd Future-related recordings - including Earl Sweatshirt's "epaR," Mike G'sĪmerican rapper and member of the Cutthroat Boyz crew, Vince Staples surfaced in the early 2010s with a spate of promising appearances on Odd Future-related recordings - including Earl Sweatshirt's "epaR," Mike G's "Moracular World" and Award Tour EP, the Jet Age of Tomorrow's "Lunchbox," and Domo Genesis' "Elimination Chamber" - as well as the 2011 mixtape Shyne Goldchain.
