{"id":537536,"date":"2026-07-21T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537536\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:51:09","slug":"watch-vince-staples-tiny-desk-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537536\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Vince Staples\u2019 Tiny Desk Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/vince-staples-lines-up-north-american-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fall tour<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32145-vince-staples\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Staples<\/a> stopped by NPR\u2019s Washington D.C. headquarters to perform five cuts off his abrasive new rock-inspired album Cry Baby, which delves into the country\u2019s continued disenfranchisement of Black Americans. During a live take of \u201cGo! Go! Gorilla\u201d Staples took a moment to shout out deceased Black Panther members killed by law enforcement, including Bobby Hutton, George Jackson, and Larry Kimmons. You can watch the full performance below.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the set, Staples recalled a conversation he had before filming the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/vince-staples-tries-to-disarm-a-mass-shooter-in-blackberry-marmalade-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explosive music video<\/a> for lead album single \u201cBlackberry Marmalade.\u201d \u201cOne of my homies\u2026was nervous about putting out that video,\u201d said Staples. \u201cHe was like, \u2018Hey man, we can\u2019t shoot a bunch of Black people in a restaurant and shit, that\u2019s going to go over poorly.\u2019 I was like, \u2018I guarantee you when we put out the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-vince-staples-shoot-the-american-flag-in-new-music-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second video<\/a> where we painted the flag a little bit, they are going to be way more upset about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Mankaprr Conteh\u2019s review of Staples\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/vince-staples-cry-baby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cry Baby<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of his fall tour, Vince Staples stopped by NPR\u2019s Washington D.C. headquarters to perform five cuts off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,416],"class_list":["post-537536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}