‘The Vince Staples Show’ Trailer Finds the Rapper Unfazed by Chaos
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Where Vince Staples goes, chaos follows. The first poster for The Vince Staples Show, the Netflix series premiering Feb. 15, features the rapper with a gnarly black eye — and its trailer finds him dodging bullets, greedy family members, and jail time. Still, Staples isn’t even a little fazed by any of it.
“Anything interesting happen?” Andrea Ellsworth’s character asks Staples, who mentally recalls getting stomped out by a mascot, brawls at a cookout, and an impromptu hangout with Rick Ross — downing lemon pepper wings — before responding simply: “Not really.”
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Staples created The Vince Staples Show with Ian Edelman and Maurice Williams. The series was executive produced by both Edelman and Williams as well as Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Corey Smyth, and William Stefan Smith.
The satirical series, which consists of five episodes, stars Staples with a recurring guest cast featuring Ellsworth and Vanessa Bell Calloway. It also has some guest cameos from Naté Jones, Arturo Castro, Scott MacArthur, Bryan Greenberg, and Myles Bullock.
“In the limited comedic series, he’s thrust into adventures while navigating life as a kind of famous, kind of rich, kind of criminal (but not really) rapper,” a synopsis of the show reads. “Unfortunately, anything that can go wrong usually does.”
The Vince Staples Show marks the first leading role for the rapper, who has earned a reputation as a scene stealer in appearances on Quinta Brunson’s Abbott Elementary and in a supporting role in last year’s White Men Can’t Jump remake, written by Barris.
“It’s going to be an extension of what we were doing with the YouTube stuff. It’s going to be a broadening of the YouTube series to where I’m getting help from Kenya [Barris] and Netflix to just make exactly what I made, but more finished, and not a five minute thing,” Staples told Interview Magazine in 2021. “We don’t have a formula yet. I just know that they’re like, ‘Do what you want to do.’ And with Dave and Atlanta, I’m trying to make sure that my thing is clear of what everyone else is doing.”
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