an interview with Vince Staples

by Jonathan DickIt's not surprising that Vince Staples didn't mince words when we recently spoke over the phone. Quiet but in no way reserved, Staples speaks with the same clipped tone that provides his delivery as a rapper one of its most distinctive qualities. Aside from the Long Beach native's unadorned method of exposition, his lyrical content itself is perhaps the most disarming of the 22-year-old rapper's characteristics. Releasing a handful of mixtapes starting with 2011's Shyne Coldchain