Vince Staples and CEO of VladTV DJ Vlad wound up going back and forth on Twitter today. After Vlad suggested that Vince was "mad" at him in a tweet, Vince suggested that he doesn't "know" the YouTube interviewer, which led to a series of tweets regarding the "credibility" of Vlad's conversations with artists.
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DJ Vlad has previously faced criticism for asking artists about their affiliations with gangs and the like. In December, Lil B tweeted “Any u rappers new and old doing interviews with DJ Vlad y’all looking real burnt y’all f-cking with a rat and snitch y’all marks," which Young Thug endorsed with a retweet. The uncle of late Atlanta rapper Bankroll Fresh wrote an open letter to Vlad, calling him a "culture vulture," after he chose to interview Bankroll's killer.
Vince last appeared in a VladTV interview in 2014. He recently did an interview with Nardwuar where he spoke of how Ja Rule "technically" saved his life ("featuring Ashanti... we gotta give her her credit").
