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When Vince Staples entered the mainstream with the release of his 2015 single Señorita, he was already a cult heavy hitter—having released four mixtapes (including one with the late Mac Miller), touring with Schoolboy Q, and making music with Jhené Aiko and Teyana Taylor. This relentless work ethic hasn’t slowed six years later—in fact, the musician has released a slate of projects this past year, and is releasing the first single from his self-titled LP, Vince Staples, on June 18. For W’s annual Music Issue, he opens up about getting inspired by the creative process and always making music that comes from a personal place.



Your latest LP, Vince Staples, is partly a collaborative effort with Kenny Beats, a good friend of yours. How did the idea to work together come about?

He sent me a beat that I recorded on, and it just went from there. We didn’t go into it intentionally thinking that we would end up with as much as we had. We ended up working two days a week for a month, from after Thanksgiving until before Christmas in 2020. A couple of weeks in, we looked up, and we had some stuff.

How much time do you spend conceptualizing a project before actually recording?

A lot of this job is trying to formulate a perspective and using that perspective to guide you. That’s probably the most time-consuming part: just trying to make sure you have something that’s grounded in you. That way, you can put it into whatever project you end up doing. Other than that, a studio session cycle is a couple of hours. You can record a song in five or 10 minutes. You’ll be there for an hour, get five songs done, and go home. That’s really how it happens.

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