Why Vince Staples told Miley Cyrus to “shut the f**k up”
Vince Staples once had an issue with Miley Cyrus regarding her comments about Kendrick Lamar. During an interview with Marie Claire in 2015, Cyrus said, “There is so much sexism, ageism, you name it. [Kendrick] sings about LSD, and he’s cool. I do it, and I’m a druggie whore.”
Cyrus seemingly confused Kendrick with A$AP Rocky, who has a song called ‘L$D’ that appeared on his 2015 album At.Long.Last.A$AP. Staples took issue with this, calling her “salty” and saying she needed to “shut the fuck up.”
“I don’t fuck with Miley Cyrus,” he told i-D. “I don’t like what Miley Cyrus said about [Kendrick]. She needs to say sorry. It was very salty. Hasn’t she got some Disney money to spend? She should be very happy. I think she confused him with someone else.”
He continued, “She didn’t know who she was talking about. [Kendrick] doesn’t have a song about LSD – that’s [Rocky]. So is it either you don’t know what you’re talking about, or is it all black people look alike? Either one is fine with me, but shut the fuck up, Miley Cyrus.”
In the same interview, he also claimed that Taylor Swift would “whup” Miley Cyrus’ “ass” in a fight, saying, “Taylor got reach! Taylor’s like six foot three.” He added, “I love Taylor Swift because she got a little bit of my publishing back with that whole Apple Music thing she did. Anyone who has a problem with Taylor Swift, I’m supporting her because I’m trying to buy a home right now.”
Rocky previously revealed that At.Long.Last.A$AP, the music Cyrus was referring to, had a heavy drug influence. “There’s definitely a psychedelic influence on my new album,” he told the New York Post. “[iLoveMakonnen] gave me acid at SXSW. This n*gga looked like Buddha with a Jheri curl! After that, I went back to my mansion and fucked nine chicks. It was pretty rad. That’s a true story.”
On another occasion, Cyrus received backlash for criticising the current state of hip-hop while praising Lamar’s ‘Humble’. “I also love that new Kendrick song: ‘Show me somethin’ natural like ass with some stretch marks,'” she told Billboard. “I love that because it’s not, ‘Come sit on my dick, suck on my cock.'”
She added, “I can’t listen to that anymore. That’s what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little. It was too much, ‘Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my cock’ — I am so not that.”
Speaking in 2017, Staples claimed Kendrick was the best rapper alive. “Talking about all-time, we can say Michael Jordan is still alive, but he’s not beating LeBron James one-on-one,” he said on Power 106. “You talking about right now, it’s Kendrick. Easy. It’s not even close. Or Kanye.”