Vince Staples recently shouted out the late Mac Miller while in conversation on the YouTube series Back on Figg. Vince explained how influential Mac was to him and laid out some of the things Mac taught him that ultimately changed his life.
"I used to be confused, like, 'Why is this white boy with all this money fucking n****s and not [just] anybody with some substantial talent," he said. "Like, he would sit there and teach me how to make sure I'm on beat, and like rap with certain energy. It took a long time... I was other everyday with nothing else to do for, like, months, and he was teaching me how to rap on beat, how to project. I didn't know how to ad-lib, I didn't know what ad-libs was! I didn't know what a metronome was."
He also noted how he met Mac for the first time through Earl Sweatshirt. "Earl [Sweatshirt] had just came back from where he was at, and I introduced myself to him at the house and he was like, 'Yeah I know who you are."
"I was like, 'I don't have no beats,'" Vince recalled. "I didn't grow up making music, I'm not from L.A., I'm getting on the blue to come out here. ... He was like, 'Yeah I'm making some beats come over tomorrow.'"
