{"id":390,"date":"2018-11-10T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachize.com\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2018-11-10T07:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:00:26","slug":"lyrics-long-beach-vince-staples-tour-lbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/lyrics-long-beach-vince-staples-tour-lbc","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Catch me off of Coronado&#8221;: The ultimate Vince Staples tour of the LBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a list, written by a writer who I am fearful hasn&#8217;t been to Southern California, let alone Long Beach. He tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizine.tv\/article\/placelist-vince-staples-tour-of-long-beach\">give a tour<\/a>\u00a0of places mentioned in Vince Staples lyrics, and he couldn&#8217;t have gotten Vince&#8217;s references\u2014or our city\u2014more wrong.<\/p>\n<p>With Vince fresh off a performance in his hometown at ComplexCon (on top of just releasing the rapid-fire 20-minute album\u00a0<em>FM!<\/em>, then announcing this week that\u00a0<em>Poppy Street Sinners\u00a0<\/em>will be dropping in January), it&#8217;s time to revisit this incomplete and mostly inaccurate list to provide a more local perspective.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, locals would know that\u00a0the places Vince Staples discusses are\u00a0<em>real<\/em>. They&#8217;re not made up, not tourist spots, Instagrammable landmarks, or places to peer at through a screen as if they were part of a museum exhibit of some far off culture. They are the actual physical places that defined what was ultimately a complicated, violent, racism-filled, character-building-but-confusing childhood for the talented 25-year-old MC.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vz9-pXuvFEU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In fact, Vince himself pokes fun at this notion in his video for &#8220;Fun!&#8221; off of <em>FM!<\/em>: Using Google mapping-style shots that jump along 65th Street, the final shot shows a white kid (presumably as unfamiliar with North Long Beach as the aforementioned list writer) Google mapping Staples&#8217; neighborhood from the safety of his suburban bedroom. In other words, another vain attempt by a far-off hip hop fan to pry into the culture of North Long Beach without actually stepping into the neighborhood or experiencing it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his lyrical and melodic abilities, Staples is a cultural commentator like no other, a quiet observer and &#8220;urban ethnographer&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/music\/vince-staples-big-fish-theory-leaves-the-street-stories-of-summertime-06-behind-8279531\">in the words of Long Beach Post editor Sarah Bennett<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Below is the complete, locals-only break down of his ethnographic insights: a comprehensive list of all the places (streets, schools, burger spots) lyrically dropped by Vince Staples so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-999926535\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Vince-Staples-Streets-970x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ramona Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood where Staples was raised, Ramona Park in North Long Beach, sits in the shadow of an oil refinery just below the 91 Freeway and is a continual theme throughout his music. &#8220;I&#8217;m here to tell the world I&#8217;m from Ramona Park,&#8221; he raps in the first line of &#8220;Outro&#8221; on <em>Stolen Youth<\/em>, an early mixtape from 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The instrumental intro to his Def Jam debut,\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06,<\/em>\u00a0is even named &#8220;Ramona Park Legend, Pt. 1&#8221; while the subsequent Pt. 2, featuring Earl Sweatshirt, is mid-album.\u00a0His 2017 album,\u00a0<em>Big Fish Theory<\/em>, also has a track called &#8220;Ramona Park is Yankee Stadium.&#8221; The Yankee reference harkens to Staples&#8217; days as a member of the\u00a0Naughty Nasty Gangsta Crips (2NGC) crew, a gang that wore Yankee hats and started on Obispo Avenue between Artesia Boulevard and Poppy Street (see below).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_999926544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-999926544\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-999926544\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Ramona-Park-North-LB-970x830.png\" alt=\"Ramona Park residents gathered for the video shoot of Vince Staples &quot;Fun!&quot; this past October. Courtesy of @waxxtho.\" width=\"600\" height=\"513\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-999926544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Park residents gathered for the video shoot of Vince Staples &#8220;Fun!&#8221; this past October. Courtesy of @waxxtho.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZPCSqw5A-s\">&#8220;Outro&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I&#8217;m here to tell the world I&#8217;m from Ramona Park\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Diving in the deep water like I know the sharks&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8\">&#8220;Norf Norf&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>We Crippin&#8217;, Long Beach City, pay a visit<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Park Ramona, Pop block the corner\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Givin&#8217; hell &#8217;til it&#8217;s frozen over, I ain&#8217;t never ran from nothin&#8217;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2FfsGMf12kk\">&#8220;Birds &amp; Bees&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I shot your child, so what, you know we wildin&#8217; after dark\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The sun come down and guns come out, you know Ramona Park&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0l9kzS_B7gg\">&#8220;Big Fish&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Big Fish Theory<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Ramona, I was round that corner\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Still down, I&#8217;m a Norf Norf soldier&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G5k6AVqLmA0\">&#8220;Get the Fuck Off My Dick&#8221; [single]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I&#8217;m from Ramona, no school diploma\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We caught him slippin&#8217;, he in a coma&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poppy Street<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staples lived at 3230 Poppy St., a street of modest homes that runs east-west through the neighborhood of Ramona Park.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wy1SQ2cRKP4\">&#8220;Trunk Rattle&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Shyne Coldchain II<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>At apartments we used to loot, them Poppy niggas&#8217;ll shoot\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Homies taught me 2N&#8217;s ain&#8217;t need no friends&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fm_OW-BwgE4\">&#8220;Shots&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Shyne Coldchain II<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Niggas die off of Poppy street\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bet my mama vouch, they drive by\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We don&#8217;t run inside, bitch, we shoot it out..<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bn15IvVrprw\">&#8220;Lift Me Up&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Man, I breathe in, bleed this, Poppy Street\u2014<\/em><em>I shot them guns &#8217;cause talk is cheap\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bow your head and pray, okay, now walk wit&#8217; me&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8\">&#8220;Norf Norf&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>How I&#8217;m Crippin&#8217; where I&#8217;m livin&#8217;, come and follow me\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pistol poppin&#8217;, Poppy Street (Poppy Street)&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dyyZHumo6n4\">&#8220;3230&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>3230 Poppy St,\u00a0we ain&#8217;t chasin&#8217;, they brought the beef\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Used to the sounds of violence, my neighbors ain&#8217;t never call police&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNEGYLJXv5w\">&#8220;Crabs in a Bucket&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Big Fish Theory<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Where&#8217;s your moxie? Ain&#8217;t you from Poppy?\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Young man, you not actin&#8217; too cocky&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c7vjX3uASgQ\">&#8220;Outside!&#8221; on <em>FM!<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Where&#8217;s your moxie? Ain&#8217;t you from Poppy?\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Young man, you not actin&#8217; too cocky&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artesia Boulevard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One block below the 91 Freeway, along the northernmost edge of Long Beach, Artesia is an essential corridor for Norfsiders, connecting Long Beach to Compton on the west and Bellflower to the east.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBfr4Ccpx08\">&#8220;Humble&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Shyne Coldchain II<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Riding down 7th Street, looking for your second son\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Found him\u00a0on\u00a0Artesia\u00a0with a Yankee hat and loaded gun&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5OAYMMod9Wo\">&#8220;Se\u00f1orita&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Fuck ya dead homies, run ya bread homie\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Got some lead for me, I&#8217;m on Artesia&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0l9kzS_B7gg\">&#8220;Big Fish&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Big Fish Theory<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Gun squeezin&#8217;, I&#8217;m a real Artesian&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cornonado Avenue in Ramona Park\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coronado Avenue is a street in Ramona Park that intersects with Poppy Street and runs parallel to Obispo Avenue.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wy1SQ2cRKP4\">&#8220;Trunk Rattle&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Shyne Coldchain II<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Been to hell and church and back,\u00a0all in Granny&#8217;s Cadillac\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Matter fact she had that El Dorado parked on Coronado&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ePc2ohqA8HI\">&#8220;Street Punks&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You ain&#8217;t never caught a body, know it cause you talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout it\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Catch me off of Coronado&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Market Street in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dyyZHumo6n4\">&#8220;3230&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Got this bitch that live off of Market that&#8217;s down to hold the heat\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Turnin&#8217; water and power off, got us impatient, powered up&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>91 Freeway in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j93eCkP2b_U\">&#8220;Loca&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I&#8217;m tryna to have a good time this evening\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>91 Freeway, eastbound, speedin&#8217;\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Late night but the face right, I need it&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>710 Freeway through Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l6TwPSAlwVI\">&#8220;Intro&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Could&#8217;ve been a bum, broke sleeping by the 710\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>17 dropped out, knew I had to make a way&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Downey Avenue in Ramona Park\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Rap Genius breaks down Staples&#8217; use of Downey Avenue: &#8220;Downey Ave. was just a stones throw away from Vince\u2019s home,\u00a0a place where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/2987004\/\" data-api_path=\"\/referents\/2987004\">\u201cniggas never had a shot unless you talking .38,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and Vince\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2016\/06\/20\/vince-staples-cover-story-interview\" rel=\"nofollow\">experienced death first hand.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8\">&#8220;Norf Norf&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Man down, Downey Ave and get shaded\/<br \/>\nTake a nigga mind off that\/<br \/>\nWe can dip, fuck in the whip, slide right back in the function&#8230;\/<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Route 22 on Long Beach Transit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Downey Avenue, Long Beach Transit&#8217;s Route 22 runs north-south along Cherry Avenue and Downey Avenue in North Long Beach.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0l9kzS_B7gg\">&#8220;Big Fish&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Big Fish Theory<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Reminiscin&#8217; sitting in that Benz\/<a class=\"referent referent--yellow\" href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Vince-staples-big-fish-lyrics#note-11866777\" data-id=\"11866777\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Of the 22 bus stop way back when\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With the 22, 5 shot eyes on scan&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Linden Avenue in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJLfCBBcZAo\">&#8220;Blue Suede&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Hell Can Wait EP<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Long road to the riches, bravos from the bitches\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Coulda been a felon selling nickels off of Linden&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Orizaba Avenue in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8-uZHewurjs\">&#8220;Killin&#8217; Y&#8217;all&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Under where they took us undercovers parked on\u00a0Orizaba\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dogs up in the yard of the abandoned where we hide the choppers&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obispo Avenue in Ramona Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=faHz1_UZgUE\">&#8220;Fantoms&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A 2014 Benz with the low jack, Pirellis&#8217;s and the pistol stack\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Riding down Obispo Ave, thinkin&#8217; bout the bus days\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Never goin&#8217; back to that,\u00a0checks be coming back-to-back&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-999926537\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Vince-Staples-High-Schools-970x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to attending area high schools, Staples didn&#8217;t mess around: he attended Jordan, Mayfair, Esperanza and Compton High. On &#8220;Norf Norf,&#8221; he boasts that a &#8220;real Norfside nigga never went to Poly, Wilson or Cabrillo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poly High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZPCSqw5A-s\">&#8220;Outro&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Bitches say the shows is heaven sitting in the front row\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Turned a couple Poly High games to the gun show&#8230;<\/em><a class=\"referent referent--linked_to_preview referent--yellow\" href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Vince-staples-outro-lyrics#note-2509616\" data-id=\"2509616\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilson High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZPCSqw5A-s\">&#8220;Outro&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Turned a couple Wilson High gangs to the track meet\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You be in to rap beef cause you ain&#8217;t never have beef&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jordan High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=faHz1_UZgUE\">&#8220;Fantoms&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Stolen Youth<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Long Beach legend, Jordan kick me out\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If you from the city, that should tell you what I&#8217;m really &#8217;bout&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Compton High<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CdQN5xTuFUM\">&#8220;Nate&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Shyne Coldchain II<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Football was cornerback, never made a game I played for Compton High\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But my daddy was the man that would be suicide\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Picked me up from visitation in the newest ride&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-999926540\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Vince-Staples-Food-970x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas Burger in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like Louis Burger mentioned below, Douglas Burger has two locations in Long Beach\u2014and the one Staples is likely referring to sits on Cherry Avenue just a few blocks from his old house on Poppy (with some of the best chili cheese fries in the city, only second to Louis Burger).<\/p>\n<p>And for those that think they know what Staples is talking about? Vince himself cleared that up in a response to a forum post quibbling about the reference: &#8220;People don\u2019t know what a fuckin\u2019 Douglas Burger is, so they can listen to this song all they want but they don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about just because of the simple fact they don\u2019t know where that is\u2014they\u2019ve never been there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5OAYMMod9Wo\">&#8220;Se\u00f1orita&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>We crabs in a bucket, he called me a crab\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So I shot at him in front of the Douglas\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I cannot be fucked with, we thuggin&#8217; in public&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Louis Burger in Long Beach and Compton<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mb6Jc4juSF8\">&#8220;Norf Norf&#8221; on\u00a0<em>Summertime &#8217;06<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In the hood, like a dollar sweet tea or a Louis Burger&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WinCo Foods in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 24-hour grocery store in Lakewood, just south of Ramona Park.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xc6hdQEm_h4\">&#8220;Feels Like Summer&#8221; from\u00a0<em>FM!<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Lil Johnny gave his life for this shit\/\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>All he got was a plot and a bottle from the Winco&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Popeyes Louisiana Chicken in North Long Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While there are two Popeyes in North Long Beach, Staples is likely referring to the one off of Artesia, right by Ramona Park.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fUG55xwSgPk\">&#8220;Run the Bands&#8221; from\u00a0<em>FM!<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Northside, right by the Popeye&#8217;s, popped out\/\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ran from the cops but the cops get shot now&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Long Beach Police Department<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Staples loves mockin&#8217; the PD\u2014hell, &#8220;Norf Norf&#8221; is an entire anthem about running from the badge and being scared of nothing else. His social commentary is done with wit and when it is combined with the man&#8217;s sheer linguistic talent, he mocks everything from cops doing cocaine to racial profiling.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xp_5xr3MOK8\">\u201cHands Up\u201d from <em>Hell Can Wait EP<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>North Division tryin&#8217; to stop my blackness\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m watchin&#8217; for them badges when out in traffic&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>LBPD, no they ain&#8217;t &#8217;bout shit <\/em><br \/>\n<em>LAPD, no they ain&#8217;t &#8217;bout shit<br \/>\n<em>LASD, no they ain&#8217;t &#8217;bout shit<br \/>\n<em>Ridin&#8217; &#8217;round these streets givin&#8217; out full clips<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJLfCBBcZAo\">\u201cBlue Suede\u201d from <em>Hell Can Wait EP<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>5-0 fucking with the yayo too\/<\/em><br \/>\n<em>L-B-P-D get sprayed on too&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-999926541\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Vince-Staples-End-Quote-970x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality with the places Vince Staples discusses is that they&#8217;re real. 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