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Vince Staples Previews ScHoolboy Q’s New Album With High Praise

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Vince Staples’ praise means a lot, as he’s defined himself as a compelling and intelligent voice on music, entertainment, culture, sports, and so much more. Still, many fans see him as a rapper at heart, and they love to hear him collaborate with his fellow creatives. Moreover, the Long Beach native answered a question about whether or not he’d appear on ScHoolboy Q’s upcoming album Blue Lips. While it seems like it won’t be the case, he did give his West Coast partner high acclaim. “No but I heard it and hit several dance moves it’s his best yet,” the 30-year-old replied.

Furthermore, Vince Staples and ScHoolboy Q go way back. They toured together with Isaiah Rashad a decade ago and collaborated on Q’s 2016 album Blank Face on the track “Ride Out,” plus Traffic’s 2017 cut “All Blue Everything.” Back in 2014, Vince spoke to DJ Vlad on how the “Yeern 101” MC touches on important issues that music can sometimes miss. “The sincerity in ScHoolboy’s music, to me, just comes from the actuality of the situation,” he shared. “A lot of my family is from the hood or whatever, so a lot of my people, they still on that s**t. And you need s**t like Chief Keef, but that s**t really be making n***as wanna go kill n***as, for real. But then you need s**t like ScHoolboy that’s really gonna have motherf***ers really trying to better they self in life.”

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Vince Staples Can’t Wait For The World To Hear ScHoolboy Q’s Blue Lips

“Q will tell you if he likes something, if he didn’t like something,” Vince Staples told us of ScHoolboy Q during a 2022 interview. “He’s not very wordy so he’s like, ‘It’s cool.’ He liked it. So, that’s always a good thing to hear. I go to Q kind of to hear what he doesn’t like more than what he does, and he didn’t seem to have many complaints, so I was happy about that.”

Meanwhile, even though the Prima Donna lyricist won’t appear on this LP, the TDE mainstay did excitedly gas up another guest appearance on the album recently. Apparently, Freddie Gibbs “low-key washed” him with his feature on the project, which is very exciting to hear considering how great they both tend to be on the mic. With all this hype in mind, it looks like Blue Lips is going to be fireworks. For more news and the latest updates on Vince Staples and ScHoolboy Q, check back in with HNHH.

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Vince Staples Reacts To Nas’ Classic “I Gave You Power” For The First Time Ever

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Vince Staples’ “WHEN SPARKS FLY” off of his amazing 2022 project RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART is, like many great hip-hop songs, a story. The first verse centers around a man speaking to his gun, and the second flips that angle in reverse, all through the metaphor of a romantic partner. If this sounds familiar to you and you hadn’t heard this track before, then you’re probably a fan of Nas’ 1996 classic “I Gave You Power,” in which he raps from the perspective of a gun. After hearing fans compare the two for so long, the Long Beach wordsmith finally figured out what people drew attention to.

“Finna listen to this Nas ‘I Gave You Power,’” Vince Staples tweeted on Thursday (January 4). “Since y’all keep talking about it in regards to the power ballad that is ‘When Sparks Fly’. Stay tuned.” Ten minutes later, “The Caliphate” MC came back to the social media platform with his verdict– plus a hypothetical. “So we back and this was a good tune. He shoulda put Ghostface on here.” We can’t say we disagree with him; after all, having Toney Starks on a record is always a blessing.

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Vince Staples’ First Reaction To Nas’ “I Gave You Power”

But Vince Staples doesn’t just look back to his predecessors for inspiration or guidance. In fact, he’s more prone to champion the contemporary, like his good friend, the late and great Mac Miller. “He changed my life, like my perspective, and made me a better person,” the 30-year-old stated during a recent interview. “I used to be confused, like, ‘Why is this white boy with all this money f***ing n***as and not [just] anybody with some substantial talent?’ Like, he would sit there and teach me how to make sure I’m on beat, and like, rap with certain energy. It took a long time… I was other everyday with nothing else to do for, like, months. He was teaching me how to rap on beat, how to project. I didn’t know how to ad-lib, I didn’t know what ad-libs was! I didn’t know what a metronome was.

“[He was] introducing me to people I had no business meeting, because I wasn’t at the skill level yet,” he went on. “I was talking to his mom today. Earl [Sweatshirt] had just came back from where he was at [back in the day], and I introduced myself to him at the house and he was like, ‘Yeah I know who you are.’” For more news and the latest updates on Vince Staples, stick around on HNHH.

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