“'Vince tells me something every day that he thinks is normal, and it's absolutely crazy, and I have to stop him and try to make him understand that what he just told me doesn't make any sense and doesn't happen to regular people in the world. world. a normal day.'” That's how Vince Staples says his manager Corey Smyth pitched The Vince Staples Show to potential buyers, a proposition that proved successful, as the five-episode first season has just debuted on Netflix.
The rapper plays multiple roles in the surreal comedy, co-creating, writing and starring in the five-episode first season, which takes us to the strange, strange land known as Long Beach, California. He is strange and foreign, at least, seen through Staples' eyes, playing a “more or less famous and somewhat rich” version of himself. In Vince's world, a bank robbery is a good opportunity to connect with an old friend, and a theme park is a good way to create a new enemy, all combined as a dreamlike, sometimes surreal experience.
Making a television series didn't come out of nowhere for Staples; When he first started working, he says, “There were a lot of people who gravitated towards the things we did visually, whether it was a cover or a video, and then over time you explore that.” In fact, he started to have ideas about what to do. would convert The Vince Staples Show Eight or nine years ago. “It's been a minute,” she admits.
At the time, however, he says “it was too early to do it.” So, he says, “I started working more, more auditions, more short roles here and there, voice-over work, and then we got to the point where we could do it, thanks to hard work and perseverance.”
Staples adds that he initially didn't have any specific ideas for the series; Instead, he was interested in the “use of perspective, a concept of how we perceive reality and the things we ignore, versus the things we enhance. That was the idea I've always had, in all music or just creativity in general. What are the things we pay attention to? What are the things that really affect us and what are the things going on deep down that are worth paying attention to?
As he continues, a television series was the perfect medium to explore these concepts, because “in the visual medium, you can play with depth, you can play with frame size, you can play with so many things to just throw at people.” mix and show things that you can't necessarily do with a song.”
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