Vince Staples didn't hesitate to name Mark Wahlberg, Will Smith and Queen Latifah as his personal favorite rappers-turned-actors.
Most might not remember–or even know–that Wahlberg was frontman of late 1980s rap group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, which Staples brought up during his Please Explain interview with Complex editor-in-chief Aria Hughes.
Around the 57-minute mark, The Vince Staples Show star, after humorously comparing rapping to smoking crack, listed Wahlberg, Smith, and Latifah as his rapper-to-actor GOATs. When asked why he mentioned Wahlberg, Staples replied, “That boy Marky Mark a rapper.”
"He's cold. They don't even know he rapped no more. They forgot he was from the streets," he said.
Staples added that Latifah is "the best" and his manager, Corey Smyth, introduced him to the actress twice, one memorable time being ten years ago.
"I met LL Cool J, I met the whole De La Soul," Staples continued. I met Ghostface Killah, the RZA, the GZA, U-God, Inspectah Deck and the M-E-T-H-O-D Man. I met a lot of people in this hip-hop space, but definitely Queen Latifah, Marky, Mark, and Will. You can't take that from them."
Staples is also carving out a career as an actor, having appeared in the White Men Can’t Jump remake and Abbott Elementary before releasing his Netflix comedy last year. While he hopes for a third season of the show, he feels he’s done enough to “learn from the experience and kind of move forward."