Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is always putting on for California. It’s no secret the legendary rock star is a huge Kobe Bryant and Lakers fan, but now we know he’s a fan of Vince Staples as well. Like a lot of us, Flea took the weekend to really get into the Long Beach rapper’s new album Dark Times , and he loved it, posting on X, the social media network formerly known as Twitter, that he felt the album is “so deep and good.
” new vince staples so deep and good Flea is no stranger to hip-hop. The Red Hot Chili Peppers came up during the era when MTV ran the world and Flea was a mainstay on the Rock N’ Jock B-Ball Jam court alongside rappers like Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Michael Bivins and Marky Mark. A post shared by Flea (@flea333) Back in 2016, he appeared in an episode of Amoeba Music’s What’s in My Bag alongside writer and producer Amy-Jo Albany.
They both talked about the records they picked at Amoeba Music’s store in Hollywood, including the handful of J Dilla records Flea purchased. He referred to the late Detroit producer as “an absolutely transcendent, phenomenal musician” and decided to zero in on the 2007 reissue of Dilla’s Ruff Draft . The bassist got emotional recalling a time he listened to the project while on a hike.
“I was in Big Sur by myself and I had on headphones and I was walking around these trails in the mountains listening to it, and it just touched this thing in me so deeply. I just couldn’t stop crying. It was so powe.