Vince Staples thread

Great performance. Even this album's second-tier tracks are gold

http://www.illroots.com/read/vince-staples-lemme-know-ft-jhen-aiko-live-on-jimmy-fallon

been jamming that track lately myself, cool

"Lemme Know" might be my favorite thing on the album tbh

still listening to this album all the time. it's just so...listenable.

second-tier though? to me 'Lemme Know' is the obvious single.

What is the lyric you're most proud of?

My manager's favourite is: "A penny saved is a penny earned / So I'll be stacking up this copper as the city burn." Lot of people don't know there history of the crashes of copper, silver and gold. I got grades in history. My precious metal game is immaculate.

https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/vince-staples-thinks-miley-owes-kendrick-an-apology

You've also said if you're credited, you're not a ghost writer.

People don't know what the word "ghost" means - they've never seen Casper. I don't like children's movies that make you sad. My nephew made me see 'Up!' They got this old man who is about to die and his wife is dead. I don't want to get old now. You're just by yourself with a dog and the dog talks? I don't want to talk to the dog.

lol wut

I fuckin love this dude

YOU A STREET PUNK

YOU A MOTHERFUCKIN STREET PUNK

That interview was pretty damn funny

"summertime" is outstanding

whole album is great

this album is absolutely superlative

Vince just messes w/ ppl at every opportunity and it's the greatest thing ever

New EP not v good

"summertime" is outstanding

whole album is great

― marcos, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:03 PM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh despite this post i think the first time i played this record was the best it sounded for me, haven't really gone back to it much

the EP is spotty for sure. he goes into a more nasal register in that last track which is not a good look.

i like vince quite a bit but would tend towards listening to jay rock if i were in the mood for this type of stuff

Yeah I absolutely hate this EP

I don't know when 2016 decided to have James Blake ruin all my favorite artists but fuck that

these mopey acapella "blues" song interludes are p fucking annoying

i like it, but it's not particularly substantial, certainly not by comparison to the album

appreciate how thoroughly bleak it goes tho. (also.....where is james blake on this? like i know where he literally is - he produced "war ready" - but it's not like the song sounds like a fuckin james blake song lol)

best thing ever:

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/extremely-concerned-white-woman-recites-vince-stapless-norf-norf-through-tears

until this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhsl2Jvk9PI

I like this EP a lot, "Smile" excepted.

^^ how is that possible, Vince makes no missteps

so weird that she thinks vince staples is played on radio

that was my reaction! where is Norf Norf playing on "top hits" radio?

http://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/hip-hop/7534052/vince-staples-on-upset-christian-mother-she-has-right-to-her-opinion

I love this response

man i feel old hearing her say "the top hits in my day were britney spears, christina, n-sync" like it's fucking buddy holly

fairly sure this is going to turn out to be a viral hoax -- the odds of a pop radio station playing meghan trainor and vince staples, given what gets radio airplay where, are not all that high, no one seems to be able to locate the original source (it was uploaded 1 month ago to a youtube account that seems to mostly repost other people's stuff), and the thing doesn't really pass a sniff test.

could be wrong, obviously

def jam marketing imo

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/arts/music/vince-staples-norf-norf-mother-video.html

our local sports talk morning zoo crew was making fun of this this morning

man i feel old hearing her say "the top hits in my day were britney spears, christina, n-sync" like it's fucking buddy holly

― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, October 6, 2016 1:49 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man i feel old -- because i think kids in the hall when i hear "fucking buddy holly"

i feel old because i actually fucked buddy holly

Oh Boy!

*crickets*

I'm buddy holly's dad, so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09miuOlLAiY

anyway, this is pretty great considering it sounds like he's really freestyling for a good bit of it

Vince's EPs always feel like letdowns.

It seems like a form where he and his producers are experimenting and trying new things, and inevitably nothing emerges from that where I'm like "you know what, I can't stop listening to this."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CcgspNqxuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmpvvlL40s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l9kzS_B7gg

Boring. I don't understand the love for this dude.

I like that one. hated his last ep tho.

"BagBak" is immense

Love this. Easily one of my favorite lyricists in hip hop atm.

My one issue with Staples is that his music can sometimes sound an like an obvious copy & paste job, inserting lyrics into a song written before he had ever heard the beat. To be fair, he's admitted that this is his process, and he'll occasionally sit on verses for years before he can find the right beat. Definitely contributes to his lyrical density. But his songs never have the fluidity of someone like Kanye or Young Thug. Plus they always feel like they're one verse too short.

That said I'm psyched for this album.

im not a big fan of his music but i feel bad shitting on it cuz he seems like a good dude

thats not a very critic-y pov but whatever