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Vince Staples Goes First-Person Shooter in New "Blackberry Marmalade" Video
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Vince Staples Goes First-Person Shooter in New "Blackberry Marmalade" Video

Complex·Shawn Setaro·about 1 month ago
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Vince Staples has released his first solo song and video since 2024, and it’s quite an experience — one influenced equally by DOOM and Martin Luther King, Jr. The California rapper’s new “Blackberry Marmalade,” viewable above, is an aggressive, punk m-influenced track that Staples teased just hours before it dropped . The video, directed by Vince and Bradley J. Calder , features a mass shooter, portrayed as if they (eerily, the viewer never sees the person’s face) are the lead character in a DOOM -style first-person-shooter video game. The shooter attacks Vince, then goes inside a restaurant (the Burbank-area Frank’s Coffee Shop and Restaurant, famous for appearing in numerous movies and TV shows and which, not having been a functioning restaurant since 2020, now only exists as a film set ). Once inside Frank’s, the shooter kills pretty much everyone except the distracted-by-his-phone security guard and a woman. Then the shooter ends the clip the way many real-life mass shooters do , by suicide.…

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