Flea of the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers is at all times placing on for California. It’s no secret the legendary rock star is a large Kobe Bryant and Lakers fan, however now we all know he’s a fan of Vince Staples as nicely.
Like quite a lot of us, Flea took the weekend to essentially get into the Lengthy Seaside rapper’s new album Darkish Instances, and he beloved it, posting on X, the social media community previously often known as Twitter, that he felt the album is “so deep and good.”
Flea is not any stranger to hip-hop. The Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers got here up in the course of the period when MTV ran the world and Flea was a mainstay on the Rock N’ Jock B-Ball Jam court docket alongside rappers like Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Michael Bivins and Marky Mark.
Again in 2016, he appeared in an episode of Amoeba Music’s What’s in My Bag alongside author and producer Amy-Jo Albany. They each talked concerning the data they picked at Amoeba Music’s retailer in Hollywood, together with the handful of J Dilla data Flea bought. He referred to the late Detroit producer as “a completely transcendent, phenomenal musician” and determined to zero in on the 2007 reissue of Dilla’s Ruff Draft. The bassist bought emotional recalling a time he listened to the mission whereas on a hike. “I used to be in Large Sur on my own and I had on headphones and I used to be strolling round these trails within the mountains listening to it, and it simply touched this factor in me so deeply. I simply couldn’t cease crying. It was so highly effective,” he mentioned as he held again tears.
Coincidentally, Vince Staples provides a nod to L.A.-based Stones Throw Data (the identical label that launched Ruff Draft) on the monitor “Radio” from his new album, rapping, “A greater day was only a stones throw away/KDAY would play the data that my sister would say/Was realer than no matter I listened to/After I bought older, I spotted it was true.”
And in 2019, throughout an interview with New York’s ALT92.3 radio station, Flea talked about Thundercat when requested about his favourite new artist. Clearly Thundercat is genre-bending in his personal proper, however the musician famously labored on To Pimp a Butterfly and was very shut with the late Mac Miller. In brief, he’s hip-hop too.
The world may use extra rap critiques from Flea.
