Rapper Vince Staples performs a semi-fictionalized model of himself in “The Vince Staples Present,” debuting as we speak on Netflix. The comedy, which skewers movie star tradition and depicts Staples’ surreal adventures, comes after roles within the movies “Dope” and “White Boys Can’t Soar” and sequence like “Insecure” and “Abbott Elementary.”

Your character’s relationship with cash is a crucial theme of the present. Why did you wish to discover that?

It’s an enormous a part of what we deem to be movie star, and it’s extraordinarily subjective. You ask lots of people who know me personally, and I’m hyper-successful and I’ve made it to the higher echelon. However most individuals who dwell on the earth don’t know who Vince Staples is. I feel that’s a really fascinating factor so far as how we understand success or fame.

Lots of the episodes begin in actuality however take surreal turns. Do you usually end up in unusual conditions?

My life is bizarre. Highlighting that was necessary for me, particularly with the issues that I’ve at all times watched and liked. I’ve been impressed by enjoying with that concept of what truly is going on, what’s not, what’s actuality and what’s extra heady. It’s a cool tackle what folks would understand this present to be.

What sequence had been inspirations to your imaginative and prescient?

All the pieces that you just see and every thing that you just digest impacts you, whether or not you already know it or not, proper? As a child, I keep in mind watching “The Andy Griffith Present,” and it had that absurd normality. Then “The Twilight Zone,” “Kidding,” “Barry.” The Coen brothers’ movies and David Lynch as properly.

Do you’re feeling extra artistic lately once you’re making music or tv?

My viewpoint of creativity is simply that I’ve questions on life and I make issues to get to these solutions. So although the processes are totally different, it’s the identical strategy mentally for me. However I feel the distinction between movie and music is simply how many individuals go into filmmaking, and I admire that, as a result of with music, it might simply be me in a room with myself, or with the engineer and one or two different folks.

Kenya Barris produced your present. What was your collaborative course of like?

Kenya was very useful as a result of he simply let me do what I used to be going to do. He leveraged his identify and relationships simply to say, “Give this man an opportunity.” Simply having that type of assist from somebody who has had that type of success was very, very appreciated.

Had been you ever nervous that your sequence may get lumped in with “Dave” or “Atlanta” as simply one other present a few rapper?

That has by no means been a nasty factor to me, as a result of these reveals are extraordinarily profitable. Folks evaluating you with issues which have been hyper-successful can’t harm.

Would you love to do a second season? Do you have already got concepts in thoughts?

Completely we’d like to proceed, if doable. What we’ve performed has been singular and distinctive. I haven’t seen something play with so many various concepts. It’s a commentary on the world round us and the way we take care of sure issues, and so long as there’s extra life to dwell, you’ll be able to at all times undertake that format.

The place are you musically at this second? Are you engaged on a brand new album?

We’re at all times engaged on music, we’re at all times engaged on every thing, however for proper now, I’m simply actually excited for this present to return out and see how folks really feel about it.