“I cycle through various mediums,” Staples explains in the episode “Black Business,” in which a routine trip to the bank hangs one delirious left turn after another. In his new Netflix series The Vince Staples Show, the Long Beach polymath plays a version of himself, floating in the nebulous space between well-known and unknown, wealth and weariness.
He’s not just a colorful rapper and deadpanning humorist but a director, writer, and actor capable of playing everything from Abbott Elementary’s layabout love interest to an animated wolf with a gigantic laser attached to its back. We need to start talking about Vince Staples as a utility player.
“Wherever I end up being, I’m grateful as long as I get to create and make a living off of it.”
