Vince Staples Calls Out Labels For Using Artists To Promote Violence For More Money: It’s Better For Their Business If You’re Dead

Vince Staples

Vince Staples Calls Out Labels For Using Artists To Promote Violence For More Money: It’s Better For Their Business If You’re Dead

Currently serving as opening act for Tyler, The Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost Tour in New York, Vincent Jamal Staples, commonly known as Vince Staples, stopped by the Hot 97 morning show earlier this week and aired out a few things about an hour into the interview. The 28 year-old blasted record labels for pretending to care about their artists and that it’s just business at the end of the day.

Vince Staples explains:

“The truth of the matter when it comes to hip hop in my opinion is like we gotta stop pretending like we care about these people we care about these kids. This is a business, they want to use you and destroy you, get your money and it’s better for their business if you’re dead.”

Vince Staples believes it’s odd that record labels have an album to release when you die, when in history it was the exact opposite, problems destroyed money. Staples explained,

“When you hear N.O.R.E. and all those other people talk about the role that their A&R’s and executives had in their life, moving them out and doing certain things for them, like when Snoop talks about Master P moving him out to New Orleans. I don’t think anyone’s doing that anymore. I think they see the money in the violence. Back then, the violence ruined the money.”

Check out the clip below for more of what Staples had to say.

Vince Staples on the music industry profiting off of violence in hip hop: "If they cared about you as a person…they would give your parents the remainder of your contract. They would give you life insurance. They would give you health insurance." pic.twitter.com/b7wU26a6Hk

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