Vince Staples Explains Why All Beef is Corny, The Ball Brothers Aren't Worth a Billion Dollars, The Best Ideas Celebrities Had While High​, and More

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Simply put, we want Vince's takes, because we trust him to be honest in a way many people aren't.]( [READ FULL STORY]( [8 Stoner Celebrities Reveal The Best Ideas They’ve Had While High]( [8 Stoner Celebrities Reveal The Best Ideas They’ve Had While High ]( ["My wife is very beautiful. You can’t have beauty laying around—someone will pick it up."]([—Tommy Chong ]( [W]([e hit up some famous pot smokers—everyone from Tommy Chong to Melissa Etheridge (yep!)—to hear if they’ve ever had any cannabis-laced epiphanies. What we found out was thrilling, hilarious, and at times, delicious. For anyone who thinks marijuana is just for Netflix-and-chilling, think again.]( [Read Full Story]( [The Chicago Bulls Belong In the Playoffs After All]( [The Chicago Bulls Belong In the Playoffs After All]( ["This is not what I expected. This is not even what I wanted. What I really wanted was for the Bulls to miss the playoffs entirely."]( [As recently as March 17th—just over a month ago—the Chicago Bulls were in shambles. Losers of seven of their previous eight games, including a 20-point beatdown by the Celtics in Boston, they were 32-37 and in very real danger of missing the playoffs. On the 17th, they lost by five to the Wizards in a game that wasn’t that close as Wade sat out the first of what would turn out to be 11 straight games. Somehow, though, the Bulls turned it around.]( [READ FULL STORY]( [What's It Like Being Black in the White-Dominated Weed Industry]( [What's It Like Being Black in the White-Dominated Weed Industry ]( ["The reason I'm here today is because I’ve had a lot of people around me go down for drugs and I'v been able to stick and move and stay away from that."]( [Black people have been almost completely shut out of the Green Rush—but not for much longer. We talked to Black entrepreneurs making moves in the marijuana business on how they got started, bias in the industry and more.]( [READ FULL STORY]( ['Damn' Is Kendrick's Smallest Album, and It Might Be His Best]( ['Damn' Is Kendrick's Smallest Album, and It Might Be His Best ]( ["Less concerned with who he must become, Kendrick explores who he is, focusing on his most elemental urges.]( [Kendrick Lamar is human again. On To Pimp a Butterfly he asked to be loved like Nelson Mandela and Michael Jackson—and he meant it. Stripped of the charged symbolism of To Pimp a Butterfly and the soul-baring confessions of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Damn is weightless minimalism, rap pared down to one man speaking his mind in all its complexities and contradictions and convictions, the music itself corroded into a sludge of soul, bass, and 808s. It’s one of the most thorough redefinitions since Yeezus, and in many ways Kendrick’s most ambitious album to date.]( [Read Full Story]( [Views: How Sneaker YouTube Became Obsessed With Clickbait​]( [Views: How Sneaker YouTube Became Obsessed With Clickbait ]( [“YouTube is more of a cancer right now than anything. Everyone benefits from the clickbait — except the viewer.]( [When Bobbito Garcia wrote a column titled “Confessions of a Sneaker Addict” in The Source in 1991, there was no such thing as sneaker media. 26 years later, there are blogs, Instagram accounts, and YouTube channels dedicated to the ever-growing market for footwear fanatics. The lattermost, however, is the most unconquered media territory out of the three, with most of the YouTube channels run by independent “content creators,” as they refer to themselves, who are able to amass hundreds of thousands subscribers through unboxing videos, mall vlogs, and sneaker reviews. But like any burgeoning form of media, the growth of Sneaker YouTube doesn’t come without its own set of struggles.]( [Read Full Story]( [Lonzo Ball and His Brothers Aren't Worth a Billion Dollars to a Sneaker Brand (Yet)]( [Lonzo Ball and His Brothers Aren't Worth a Billion Dollars to a Sneaker Brand (Yet) ]( ["Selling sneakers doesn’t happen from on-court talent alone. Legends aren’t built in one season; they’re built after many.”]( [The sound of the final buzzer of the NCAA regular season hadn't stopped ringing in everyone's ears before UCLA's Lonzo Ball said what basketball fans already knew: On March 13, the 19-year-old point guard announced he would forgo his sophomore season and declare for the NBA draft. The one-and-done prospect was fulfilling one-third of the plan prophesied by his father, LaVar Ball, who promised each of his three talented sons would play college ball for one season before they cash in on their skills at the pro level. But making it to the league is just the beginning of the process.]( [Read Full Story]( [The NBA Needs to Bring Back the Five-Game First Round Series]( [The NBA Needs to Bring Back the Five-Game First Round Series]( ["I think I speak for all of us when I say I’ve already seen all I need to see from the Warriors and Blazers series to know how that one’s going to end."]( [The NBA did a stupid thing back in 2003 and it hasn’t been the same since. That year, the Association announced it was reformatting the playoffs, switching up first round series from a best-of-five to a best-of-seven for the only reason that ever really matters in the world of sports—money. So we get why the league did it. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And in our eyes, the best-of-five series in the first round of the NBA Playoffs was perfect. It made the start of the postseason so much more exciting than it currently is and actually produced the kind of upsets usually reserved for the NCAA Tournament.]( [Read Full Story]( Only want to receive Rare Reads moving forward (and remove yourself from Complex Daily)? [Click here](. © 2016 Complex Media Inc. All rights reserved. 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 35th Fl. New York, NY 10020 [Unsubscribe](