West Coast rapper Vince Staples has the entire world watching him after sharing some criticism toward Eminem’s 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher.
Staples went to social media this weekend to defend his image and clarify how he feels about Em’s politically-driven freestyle.
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Staples initially sparked tensions after allegedly calling the freestyle garbage.
Tonight, during his talk at at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art for Pitchfork’s In Sight Out series, Vince Staples shared his thoughts on the viral hit. “It was trash,” he said. “He can do better.” Staples went on to assert that if he were to rap those lines, it would be taken less seriously: “If I said, ‘This is for Colin/Ball up a fist/And keep it balled up/Like Donald the b*tch,’ they would be like, ‘Get this n*gga out of here.’” (Pitchfork)
Vince later came forward to deny trying to trash Em’s cypher.
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