Vince Staples Says Time Magazine Did Him 'Dirty' Over His Comments About '90s Hip Hop

 Vince Staples said that Time Magazine misused his words in 2015 in an article they titled "Meet the Rapper Who Thinks the '90s Were Totally Overrated." 

"I'm gonna tell you how that went down, because they did me dirty. I'm lowkey still mad about it," he told Joe Budden. "They said, 'You wanna talk about '90s Hip Hop ?' I said, 'I'm not talking about Hip Hop to Time magazine.' That's exactly what I said. Then they said, 'Alright, you can talk about '90s pop culture.' 

"I'm on a Def Jam press run. Y'all know what a Def Jam press run is," added Vince.  "They was talking about sports, and then go to pop culture, and then they go to Hip Hop being bigger now than it was then ... That's why I said their two names (2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G), because they were for everybody, and there were more [rappers] for everybody after the fact."

The article gave the impression that Vince believed the 90s were overrated because 2Pac and Biggie were the only notable emcees. It was a comment that angered many, including 90s rapper N.O.R.E., and they had an intense social media back-and-forth about it. 

Staples has a history of saying things that stir the pot and he's admitted he's probably more famous for his interviews than his rapping.  But it looks like in the case of Time Mag he was just mis-headlined.