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Vince Staples Is Just Happy to Be Here
Whether it’s making music or his new Netflix series, the rapper only wants to connect people.
He’s not just a colorful rapper and deadpanning humorist but a director, writer, and actor capable of playing everything from Abbott Elementary ’s layabout love interest to an animated wolf with a gigantic laser attached to its back. In his new Netflix series The Vince Staples Show, the Long Beach polymath plays a version of himself, floating in the nebulous space between well-known and unknown, wealth and weariness. Trailing its subject through a battery of unexpectedly precarious situations — an arrest for speeding, a run-in with an old neighborhood rival — The Vince Staples Show treats notoriety like a ponderous, confusing aura, a nuisance as much as a boon.
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