\u201cI just make the music,\u201d Mr. Staples, who\u2019s from Long Beach, Calif., said recently, \u201cand people draw the parallels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Like the too-smart kid in class who would rather pick at the teacher\u2019s semantics than give a straight answer, Mr. Staples can turn cagey when he feels himself being made into any sort of poster child. In conversation, despite his reputation for wry, incisive commentary on Twitter<\/a> and podcasts, the needle-sharp rapper prefers to wiggle out of illuminating his own intentions and influences rather than over-explain; he is content to let his creative output stand for itself.<\/p>\n There is no shortage of work to pore over: Since surfacing as a teenage affiliate of the Odd Future collective<\/a>, . Mr. Staples has released two major-label albums and two EPs, each with a cohesive sound and exhaustive thematic concept that extends to surrealist videos and artwork <\/a>. His latest LP, \u201cBig Fish Theory,\u201d trades the minimalist \u201990s homage<\/a> of his double-disc 2015 debut album, \u201cSummertime \u201806,\u201d for the electronic, industrial dance music cacophony favored, at times, by Kanye West<\/a> and Danny Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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