Vince Staples thread

I don't know as much as I'd like to about the NBA, but I watched all of this just to hear Vince talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkgJxxSH2Yg

is there stuff that goes even deeper than Hands Up?

nothing is quite as hard as Hands Up, but there are songs that come close and he sustains that intensity for tracks at a time. Impressive that he pulls of a double album, given how brevity-minded his other projects have been

he was good on the nightly show. clever guy.

new one, "get paid" http://vevo.ly/7Nscms

i dig how haunted this sounds

legitimately havent had as much anticipation for an album in a long-ass time

Senorita is dope. what's the concern about sampling Future?

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/21/414701194/first-listen-vince-staples-summertime-06

:D

can't stay up late to listen to the whole thing but went through the first three tracks and wow, norf norf is incredible in particular

Yeah, this album is really something.

this is awesome

someone be sure to bump this thread when Vince makes a misstep ... ain't happened yet

About halfway through the album, pretty great so far. Señorita sounds even better in context.

This is my fav AOTY so far

absolutely

the sound is practically skeletal and almost entirely minor key and that works perfectly the whole time w/o ever growing monotonous

you mean I have to stop listening to Miguel

yes alfred, just for an hour.

wildheart is def also gunning for the #1 spot tbf

it's been an incredible year

Wow. Miguel and Vince Staples arrive in one day. But yeah, this is great - almost too deep to take in. I like it that he's defined his musical aesthetic so clearly that this isn't a double album grab bag of stuff. It's just one dope track after another where I'm mesmerized by his voice. A little like when I first heard Nas.

so this is a good album

"norf norf" is so fucking great

i'll have to stop listening to this to hear Miguel, not the other way around #priorities

if this season of true detective was in compton, "dopeman" would be a perfect theme song, so quietly menacing. it's sort of an interstitial more than a full fledged song but I love it

this is soooooooooo good

It is but too long imo

I haven't even listened to the second disc yet

This could be forever, baby
This could be forever, baby
This could be forever, baby
This could be forever, maybe
Do you like the sunshine, do you like the snow?
Do you wanna talk about it, or be alone?
I think that you should know that, this could be forever, baby

dragged my sick self out of the house to buy a copy of this & it was sold out, which makes me happy tbh. good for vince.

this album is pretty special huh

I love it now.

this album is pretty special huh

― lex pretend, Tuesday, June 30, 2015 9:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

also really amazing sounding - the enormous bass!

was just gonna talk about the bass. I think this album was made just strictly for my taste

also really amazing sounding - the enormous bass!

the "birds & bees" beat sounds like mezzanine-era massive attack

Woah that is spot on

that and all the featuring birds being of the topley variety

ha -- I was going to say Angels with Dirty Faces

i felt like there was a lot of tricky about vince himself, haven't worked out whether it was just the above sonic associations making me think so

too early in the romance to say but this probably an AOTY contender for me.

Tim!

Alfred?

performing on Jimmy Kimmel tonight

ha -- no, just surprised.

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idk I have pretty corny taste in rap and if you plotted a through line of my favourite rap albums of the last ten years or so it would lead straight to this.

really loving this, love all the call and response female vox in this

also FUCK YOU VINCE for this little deep thought in "Surf"

More black kids killed from a pill than the FEDs in the projects
In the planned parenthood playin' God with ya mom's check, you ain't even been to prom yet
Sixteen, heard you wanna be a star girl
What he charge for the dream that you bought girl

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/201/480130703_be1d567d73.jpg

The angle of "Can you believe this 22-year-old doesn't know about NWA or Public Enemy!?!?" in this article was pretty annoying:
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/stapless-center-getting-to-the-heart-of-things-with-the-summertime-06-rapper/

the 50 Cent was third grade thing was more o_O the terror of time & all its sickening crime for me, yikes

i want to believe that vince is more talking about the literal fact that underage pregnancies happen rather than passing judgment on how they're dealt with but at the same time the heavy christian influence among a lot of rappers does lead to some version of prolife opinions in several instances (theres an infamous ghostface lyric to this effect on pretty toney, iirc, for example)

(xxpost)

damn this is kind of astonishing on contact

new show on netflix & he drew inspiration from roy andersson -

We take a lot of inspiration in Roy Andersson, one of my favorite filmmakers. In his film “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence,” he has this shot in this restaurant or a cafeteria, where a lot of the people are separated by the pillars and just entering and exiting a frame. Things that are happening in the distance and things that are happening closer to camera, everything matters in the shot, especially when you stay within a wide. So I think operating within a wide sometimes allows you to bring subtle details and nuances to the shot, and the disposition of the people within the bank can speak to their relationships, speak to their experience.

Thanks for reminding me - I want to check this out.

(Sadly the most excited I’ve been about Staples in a good long while)

Binged the show this weekend. The easy read is Atlanta-lite. What am I missing? Been into him since Shyne Coldchain but this just didn’t land. I hope there’s another season.

Dark Times is the first Staples LP since Summertime 06 that is clicking with me all the way through. It’s all working perfectly here

Agreed! Summertime 06 and S/T are his high points and this is definitely in league with those.

prefer this to anything he's done since big fish. he's a great writer, and this is the first time since summertime '06 that his songs are so meticulously crafted. also the first album to take full advantage of his calmer delivery, it never gets sleepy and he never sounds bored, which is an issue i had with ramona park and the self-titled

Looking forward to getting into this. The producers didn't ring a bell, anyone familiar?

Some of his best beats in ages ("Étouffée"0.

I feel like a lot of elements have to be just right for a Staples release to work - he’s got to be in the right zone of writing and spitting, the production has to be on point, etc. A lot of stuff he’s done over the past 11 years has an element or two wrong and it just wrecks the whole thing for me

His flow on “Justin” gives me major A Tribe Called Quest feels

Never knew I needed a NOLA bounce homage from Vince Staples. This is sounding great so far.

re: producers, etouffee is mike hector, who produced god for kendrick, among others, and jay versace, the former internet comedian turned producer who did “smoking on my ex pack” for sza, and whosantoine, who i haven’t heard of but i am sure is great

looking at the rest of the credits, the only other producers i know are the great cardo (got wings), who is behind “radio” (one of my highlights), and michael uzowuru, who has worked with sza and frank ocean, and has several credits on here

Thanks!

cardo's mixtapes with payroll giovanni are so good

The beginning of “Freeman” has haunted me since I first heard it

watching him live on t.v. at the austin city limits fest right now and he's so good. just him and beats on a big stage. like a minimal jazz master solo concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdcD99Pd0oo

I'm into the dubby post-punk beat, kinda reminds me of the second Saul Williams record -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ZUGkAw5c8

I missed cryptosicko's Janaury post, so let me state for the record that Vince looks quite foxy in the Criterion closet.

Ok, this is a good one for the studio nerds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqhTZxlKb5I

digging the new album so far, definitely a big left turn

I like the song and this won't be ILM popular as an observation but Blackberry Marmalade's backing track sounds a hell of a lot like Sleaford Mods

Loving this

back at the stage where i just like to hear him talk. need to let his words sink in a bit more, but really like this