{"id":81064,"date":"2024-01-17T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=81064"},"modified":"2024-01-17T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T19:24:29","slug":"vince-staples-new-netflix-show-based-on-his-life-in-long-beach-to-debut-feb-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/vince-staples-new-netflix-show-based-on-his-life-in-long-beach-to-debut-feb-16","title":{"rendered":"Vince Staples&#8217; new Netflix show based on his life in Long Beach to premiere next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new five-episode comedy series starring Vince Staples will be released next month on Netflix, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/1747638720801485034\">streaming giant announced today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.netflix.com\/en\/only-on-netflix\/81264943\">The Vince Staples Show<\/a>&#8221; will premiere on the streaming platform on Feb. 15 and will be loosely based on the 30-year-old rapper&#8217;s life in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who\u2019s Vince Staples? Well, that\u2019s a tricky question. He\u2019s kind of famous, but he\u2019s not. He\u2019s kind of rich, but he\u2019s not. He\u2019s also kind of a criminal. But he\u2019s\u2026not?&#8221; according to a Netflix synopsis of the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Follow him on his daily adventures, where anything that can go wrong usually does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netflix first announced <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/vince-staples-show-netflix-based-based-long-beach\/\">Staples would be getting his own show last year<\/a>. On Monday, Staples teased the premiere of the show with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vincestaples\/status\/1747087434683453897\">social media post on X<\/a>\u00a0simply saying &#8220;The Vince Staples Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The trailer, which dropped on Wednesday, shows Staples, who plays himself, getting into several precarious situations. It also teased an appearance from rapper Rick Ross.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Vince Staples Show. On Netflix Feb 15th\u2757\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53i9I2KZ5Q\">pic.twitter.com\/53i9I2KZ5Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; vince (@vincestaples) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vincestaples\/status\/1747651138093248941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Staples was born in Compton but grew up in the Ramona Park area of North Long Beach, which has served as a major inspiration throughout his artistic career.<\/p>\n<p>In his most recent album, &#8220;Ramona Park Broke My Heart,&#8221; released in 2022, Staples looks back at his life growing into young adult in Long Beach and the violence he experienced in his community.<\/p>\n<p>Staples&#8217; new show follows a similar theme and is based\u00a0on two vignettes he released on YouTube in 2019 under the same name.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vince Staples - Episode 01: So What?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6KFcZp-Kso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new show will be executively\u00a0produced by Staples alongside \u201cBlack-ish\u201d creator Kenya Barris, Corey Smyth, Ian Edelman, Maurice Williams and William Stefan Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Edelman and Williams previously worked with Barris on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2022\/06\/15\/kid-cudi-netflix-series-entergalactic\">Kid Cudi\u2019s animated show &#8220;Entergalactic<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Vince Staples Show&#8221; is the rapper&#8217;s biggest acting role to date. Previously, he played a minor role in &#8220;Dope&#8221; (2015), had a cameo in an episode of &#8220;Insecure&#8221; and appeared as a recurring character in &#8220;Abbott Elementary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-anticipated, five-episode series about the Long Beach rapper&#8217;s upringing in the city will be available to stream on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":72139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32296,237],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32041],"class_list":["post-81064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-the-vince-staples-show","tag-vince-staples","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81064"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81076,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064\/revisions\/81076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81064"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=81064"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=81064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}