外文名：Vince Staples 原名：Vincent Jamal Staples 国籍：美国 出生地：加州长滩 生日：1993年7月2日 活跃年代：2008年至今 唱片公司：Blacksmith|Def Jam|ARTium|A.G. 简介：Vince Staples是来自美国加州长滩的说唱歌手。他是嘻哈组合Cutthroat Boyz的三个成员之一，另外两位成员是Joey Fatts 和Aston Matthews，他最被人熟知的是他在Odd Future members的专辑中以合唱形式的出现。2014年10月，他发行了他的首张EP“Hell Can Wait”；2015年6月30日又发行了首张专辑“Summertime '06”。 从艺历程：Recording artist Vince Staples has come a long way from his trying upbringing in Long Beach, California’s Ramona Park neighborhood. Releasing his critically acclaimed debut Summertime ’06 album in 2015, the then twenty-year-old saw his life turned right side up, going from being nearly trapped to having what appeared to be complete freedom. Yet, as his most recent project, Big Fish Theory, suggests, appearances can be deceiving. The LP delves into the confusion of sudden fame and acclimating to a lifestyle antithetical to the one he’d known in Long Beach – one wrought with gang violence and poverty. It’s a fundamental narrative in hip hop, but rappers have always found a new way to breathe life into it. Staples brings forth a vision that’s brutal, elegant, playful, and despondent in one breath. Such is the nature of his music, as self and socially aware as it is comical. With Prima Donna and Summertime ’06 behind him, Staples has set the tone for what’s yet to come. A standout rapper in today’s hip hop world, he keeps his sound deeply tied to his west coast roots and his message one that knows no boundaries. In a world of full of painful departures, his art gives listeners reason to believe that, somehow, as he advances, the people who have left him and the people who he's left behind will still be waiting for him at the end.