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[Q]: Vince Staples  Believes  He  Deserves All The Grammys  But  He  Isn't Holding  His  Breath
 Vince Staples  is impossible to categorize. A Southern Cali MC who prides himself on his Long Beach bona fides while eschewing the prototypical gangsta rap tag with which he's often mis-labled  he's a natural at bucking the status quo. Yet he also sees clear divisions between art and commerce that lead him to question how institutions choose to define â or fail to distinguish â the two.
So when  Staples  found himself the subject of a recent Grammy campaign â initiated by Uproxx hip-hop editor Aaron Williams  who likened the EDM sonics of  Staples ' 2017 LP Big Fish Theory to "a post-apocalyptic pinball machine" â he was less interested in discussing whether or not his album is Grammy-worthy than he was in questioning the very construct upon which the Recording Academy recognizes and rewards genre-bending artists of color.
But  Staples ' argument is bigger than hip-hop. It's a critique rooted in the racial dynamic that has kept black artists in the industry categorically separate and unequal since the inception of "race music."
In a sense   Staples  is the kind of artist the academy tends to clamor over â a major-label signee who subverts mainstream convention. While his peers chase after collaborations with bankable trap producers  his album credits are filled with left-field collaborators Kilo Kish and Zack Seckoff  a young unknown producer largely responsible for Big Fish Theory's industrial-driven electronics.
No doubt   Staples  prizes his creative idiosyncrasies: "Hitchcock in my modern day / Where the f*** is my VMA? / Where the f*** is my Grammy?" as he raps on Big Fish Theory's "Homage."
The message is the easiest part of this whole thing. The hard part of music is designing the product and marketing the product â figuring out what it looks like  what it sounds like  what it feels like    who to sell it to and how to get  them  to believe that it's more important than  themselves . When you've figured that out  that's when you become a star.
But  yeah  let's really talk about it. If we really want to have a Vince Staples Grammy campaign  someone tell me why I can't be in every genre that my music is kind of reminiscent of? Because the argument within hip-hop is that my music doesn't sound hip-hop enough.
My only request is that it be broadened  because it's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for everything we just spoke about. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for a packaging Grammy. It's no reason because the conceptual nature of my cover and the way that it looked is a great idea for a compact disc. Usually people go all out and put 50 pictures and give you a suitcase full of stuff to win a packaging Grammy. But it's not really about the design of it itself. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for that. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for electronic and alternative and Rap Album of the year  because if we're pushing creativity and we're doing it get to be creative and to create new things  I don't know what's newer than what Vince Staples is doing. And that's my only conversation.
[A]: Vince Staples


[Q]: According to Roll Call  the White House sent an email with the subject line  "Condolence Letters Since 20 January 2017" to the Defense secretary's office on the evening of the day  Trump  said  he  had reached out to all the families of soldiers who had been killed.
 Trump 's contact with Gold Star families came under fire this week  after The Associated Press reached out to 43 families and got responses from 20  nine of whom said they had heard from  Trump  and nine of whom said they had not  despite his remark that he had called the families of "virtually everybody" who had died in the line of duty.
Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida  who was present during the phone call  told the Miami ABC affiliate WPLG on Tuesday that  Trump  had told Myeshia Johnson her husband "knew what he signed up for  but when it happens  it hurts anyway."
Wilson said she was riding in the car with Johnson — who was on her way to the airport to receive her husband's body — when  Trump  called. She then told MSNBC on Wednesday morning that the soldier's widow was "crying the whole time" and that when she hung up the phone  she looked at Wilson and said  "He didn't even remember his name."
Though  Trump  blasted Wilson's account as "totally fabricated " the soldier's mother confirmed to The Washington Post that the congresswoman's account was accurate  adding that  Trump  had "disrespected" her family.
As the controversy continued to unfold  Gold Star families came out en masse to dispute the president's claims. That included Chris Baldridge  whose son  Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge  died in Afghanistan in June. Baldridge told The Post that  Trump  had offered  him  a $25 000 check  but did not follow through.
"I could not believe  he  was saying that    and I wish I had  it  recorded because  the man  did say this " Baldridge said. " He  said  'No other president has ever done something like this ' but  he  said  'I'm going to do it.'"
[A]: Myeshia Johnson Trump


[Q]: Catalan President Carles Puigdemont signs a declaration of independence at the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona  Spain  October 10  2017. REUTERS/Albert Gea
In a much-anticipated speech to the Catalan parliament  ringed by thousands of protesters and hundreds of armed police  Carles Puigdemont made only a symbolic declaration  claiming a mandate to launch secession but suspending any formal steps to that end.
One EU official said  Puigdemont  “seems to have listened to advice not to do something irreversible”.
However  the prospects for political talks still appeared remote on Tuesday despite  Puigdemont ’s gesture  with Madrid insisting on talks to be held “within the law”  a phrase that is widely interpreted as ruling out independence as an option.
The Spanish government will meet on Wednesday to decide on its response to  Puigdemont ’s declaration.
Both Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government and European Council President Donald Tusk had urged  Puigdemont  not to proclaim independence. And French President Emmanuel Macron rejected  Puigdemont ’s call for European Union mediation  saying he was confident Madrid could handle the situation.
 Puigdemont  told the Barcelona regional parliament that the result provided a popular mandate for independence and  he  called for talks and reduced tensions.
”We aren’t criminals  nor crazy  nor coup plotters  nor abducted “  he  said. ”We are normal people who ask to be allowed to vote and who have been ready for all the dialogue necessary to achieve it in an agreed way.
“I assume ... the mandate that Catalonia become an independent state in the form of a republic ”  he  said to prolonged applause.
After  Puigdemont ’s speech  stocks around the world rose as Wall Street eked out record highs ahead of earnings season  while U.S. Treasury prices pared gains.
Some analysts  however  said  Puigdemont ’s stance would prolong the uncertainty and risk from the Catalan impasse.
Independence supporters watched  Puigdemont ’s speech on large screens outside the 18th-century parliament building. Initially  people chanted “independence”  cheered and kissed each other  but as it became clear there would be no formal declaration of independence  some people whistled and shook their heads.
Pensioner Marisol Rioja  65  said: “We would have liked more. But he ( Puigdemont ) couldn’t do it.”
[A]:
Carles Puigdemont