Vince Staples is getting his own Netflix series. The rapper, and occasional actor, first tweeted about his show on Monday, but it wasn’t until Wednesday that we got our first look at it in Netflix’s new trailer and it already looks great. The series called The Vince Staples Showpremieres on February 15.
The trailer starts with Vince arriving at his home and sitting down on the couch to watch TV with his girlfriend. As she asks him about his day, we see brief flashes from the show, with Vince arguing with someone in a mascot costume, being recognized during a bank robbery, and struggling to order fast food.
The trailer seems more interested in conveying the atmosphere of the show than actual plot details, but it’s quite successful nonetheless. Each scene looks stranger, funnier and more exciting than the last. It would be difficult for an unusual series created by a rapper to avoid comparisons to the series created by Donald Glover Atlantabut strangely the trailer has a similar feel Uncut gemstones also, where Adam Sandler’s minor New York fame took him to some pretty terrible places.
Although Staples is primarily a musician, this isn’t the first time he’s tried to get a show off the ground. He also created a much smaller version of it The Vince Staples Show for Facebook in 2019, but that series was short-lived. Since then, Staples has appeared in series such as Abbott Elementary And Insecure.