“We were always like, ‘Man, I wonder why trouble is following us to the $10 amusement park?’” he recalls with a laugh. “But I think the constraints are what allow you to really push the bounds of your creativity. When it gets tight, will you still have an idea that can thrive in that smaller setting?”“The Vince Staples Show” is teeming with powerful ideas. “‘Barton Fink,’ ‘Donnie Darko,’ ‘A Serious Man’ — all these things, you’re like, ‘OK, seems like I know what’s going on,’” he says. “But what’s really going on in ‘Eraserhead’?”The show shares a certain absurdist attitude with Staples’ rich but un-glitzy music, which he began making in the early 2010s as a satellite member of L.A.’s Odd Future collective.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 19, 2024 19:18 UTC