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Vince Staples recently stopped by Los Angeles radio station Power 106 to chop it up on The Cruz Show.
One of the topics he addressed was record sales and explained why he believes Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole continue to move units while the hip hop genre as a whole remains in a slump.
"If you a kid, 15, 16-years old," Staples says, "and you only got $20 that you probably got from your mom and you done had it for a minute, and you gotta pick between buying a CD or doing something that, probably getting some food or getting some weed, 'cause that's what the kids like to do nowadays, what they gonna pick? Because the music ain't really helping them in a sense of what we're saying and what we're doing. It's just hindering them. So why would they spend they last on that? It's not really a lot of expendable income in today's society in general. So what do we expect for these kids to have? I feel like if you have something that they feel like affects them or is speaking for them, it's always gonna do well. You look at the J Coles, the Kendricks, those are the people selling the most records. Drake, those are the people that are really the most transparent with their music."
Check out the full interview below.
Source: HipHopDX
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