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Vince Staples Calls Out Fans Who Hate on Experimental Rap Albums: ‘You Don’t Know Enough About Hip-Hop’

Vince Staples claps back at all the noise online from people who say rappers can’t experiment with their music and call it hip-hop.

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The thing that goes misunderstood about hip-hop is that it’s more than a genre. It’s a rich culture founded on grafitti, freestyling, battling, breakdancing, and rapping. It was a pure form of Black expression founded in parks and basketball courts. Over the years, that culture evolved in a variety of different ways based on the region. With that, the music itself changed. Artists like Vince Staples can experiment with abrasive rocks sounds and Chief Keef could tinker with what rapping sounds like.

Still, you’re bound to have the purists that will argue that it’s not hip-hop because it doesn’t sound like it used to sound. Frankly, Staples finds this logic to be reductive and harmful. In an interview with Rolling Stone, writer Jeff Ihaza asked about the........

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