'The Vince Staples Show' ponders celebrity while finding 'humor in moments of discomfort'
LOS ANGELES — When Vince Staples wrote an episode set at an amusement park for his new Netflix series, "The Vince Staples Show," the rapper and actor from Long Beach hoped to shoot it at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, where as gang-affiliated kids growing up in "extremely humble circumstances," as he puts it, he and his friends would go for fun — and sometimes more than that — instead of the far pricier Disneyland.
"We were always like, 'Man, I wonder why trouble is following us to the $10 amusement park?'" he recalls with a laugh.
Decades later, alas, it was Knott's
