Vince Staples Praised Two Hip-Hop Heroes Who Made Him a Better Rapper: ‘I Was Just Doing What Everybody Else Was Doing'

Vince Staples Praised Two Hip-Hop Heroes Who Made Him a Better Rapper: ‘I Was Just Doing What Everybody Else Was Doing'

Before Vince Staples became one of the most beloved rappers working today, he was just Vince from Long Beach. When he was first starting, he was admittedly pretty rough around the edges. Staples told Desus Nice for GQ in 2021 that it was a lot of the Odd Future crew that helped him out early on. Because he knew nothing about making music for a living, he just emulated others around him. “Literally, I didn’t start making music until I started mak…