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‘The Vince Staples Show’ brings viewers in the mind of one of rap’s most creative stars.
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00:00You want to be remembered as, you know, a good person. All the titles, all the other stuff, um,
00:05don't really matter to me. You can attach to every one of those you connect with the most,
00:08but you know, just being a good person, treating people decent, especially from my upbringing,
00:12that's not something that we were taught. So it's something I'm trying to learn over time.
00:15And, um, yeah, that's, that's something that's really important to me is just making sure that
00:19you're a good person and you're treating people fairly, you know, making the most out of your life.
00:23How was your day?
00:23I bailed you out last week. We ain't got no chicken for you.
00:35That's cool.
00:39Let me hold something, nephew.
00:43I wanted to ask you, man, what was the initial idea that sparked you to create this show?
00:50I feel like when I first started doing music, a lot of, a lot of the elements in my music that
00:56people highlighted were visual, whether it was like stage show, uh, stage lighting,
01:01music videos, things of that nature. So it just made me kind of think about
01:07visual format in a broader sense around 2015, probably 2016, to start taking meetings, trying to
01:14figure out how to get a show done. And, um, after those meetings, kind of taking the proper steps to
01:19kind of acclimate, uh, steps to acclimate myself to the environment, doing voiceover work, you know,
01:24doing dozens, hundreds of auditions, um, having a couple small roles in a couple of films and
01:32television shows. And, uh, then we kind of just got to this point to where we kind of did some shorts
01:37on YouTube for music related stuff. And then that kind of helped open a couple doors. And then now we're
01:43here, um, kind of got situated before COVID and then picked up after COVID was over, you know,
01:49thankfully. And now we coming out in a couple of days. So I'm, I'm, I'm, it was a, it was a long,
01:54long journey, but it panned out.
01:56Rob Markman- Congratulations with that too, man. Um, you spoke about your music too.
02:01So I want to ask you, you're one of the most creative musicians that we have. Um, how did you
02:06approach writing the script for this show? Like, was it the same or similar to the way you write music?
02:10And what ways did they differ?
02:12Rob Markman- Uh, just got some really good advice from Calmatic, who, uh, has worked closely with me
02:18on, you know, this project and, and, and the ones previously. Um, he's like, we trying to have these
02:23meetings going through shows. He's like, if you don't write this show, it's not going to be the way you
02:26want it to be. So you need to figure out how to do it, download Final Draft. I bought it, downloaded it.
02:30I sat on the phone with, um, Maurice Williams, um, one of our writers and asked him, how do I do this?
02:37How do I do that? Um, Jeff Patineau, um, and as well, just getting advice from him and literally
02:43just, it was like learning how to write again. You know what I mean? As far as from, from music
02:47standpoint, just the structure, the way to utilize the programs, what a scene is, how long the script
02:53is. This was all stuff that I was kind of learning for the first time. So thankfully I had so many
02:57people involved in the process that were able to give me advice on how they do things and how
03:03I should do things. And that would kind of infer my decisions from Kenya to Ian Edelman. Like,
03:07it was so many people that were on the set of this. Don't want to leave nobody out. Crystal Jenkins,
03:12Amy Hubbs, Winter Coleman, so many writers, Lola Rajil, Jackson Deloach, everybody in the writing room
03:17just really helped. It helped me like understand that this is different than music and understanding
03:23that it was different than music. I was able to kind of apply my thought process to a new medium,
03:28which just made it feel like free, so to say.
03:32Okay. So rapper, actor, producer, you know, all kinds of titles can be attached to your name,
03:39my brother. When it's all said and done, what do you want the people to remember most about Vince
03:44Stables?
03:45I mean, that's a good question. You know, a lot of times we think of these things. Well,
03:50me personally, it's just, you know, you want to be remembered as, you know, a good person. All the
03:54titles, all the other stuff, um, don't really matter to me. You can attach to every one of those
03:59you connect with the most, but, you know, just being a good person, treating people decent,
04:03especially from my upbringing, that's not something that we were taught. So it's something I'm trying
04:06to learn over time. And, um, yeah, that's, that's something that's really important to me,
04:10is just making sure that you're a good person and you're treating people fairly and, you know,
04:13making the most out of your life.
04:16Well, Vince, I appreciate you, my brother. Thank you so much, man. Good luck on everything.
04:20It's an amazing show, man. I appreciate you.
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