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Vince Staples: 'I started gangbanging because I wanted to kill people’
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This is a little tangential but does anyone know the biographical timeline of when Vince was gangbanging and doing the things that he currently raps about vs. when he was with Odd Future? Like, it seems weird to think that a genuinely cold-blooded street dude would have been down to chill with the suburban-shock-fantasy OF crew, it's two totally different worlds, therefore I always assumed he was out of it by the time his rap career started. But he was only 17 or 18 in 2010 when all that stuff was happening, so he must have been really young during his street phase. I guess the album is called "Summertime 06" which gives the answer, really.
Just because OF appeals to a "suburban-shock-fantasy" crowd doesn't mean the the crew is suburban. Tyler and Hodgy are from Inglewood, but went to HS Westchester (think LAX), both neighborhoods mix hood w uppercrust..so yeah, bearfuckers420 hit the nail on the head: LA is a diverse place where a lot of people/cultures have plenty of opps to intermingle.
I came 9 years later to say this. They're very much from LA. Tyler went to Fairfax high school which is in a very trendy neighborhood bordering Beverly Hills. You hit the nail on the head, LA is mad diverse. For one, there's a huge youth punk/metal/skater community that's been thriving for years.