Vince Staples thread

"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

best everyday struggle so far

ilx where are you

Terrific interview: http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/vince-staples-is-the-least-corny-man-in-america/

new album is fucking great

and 36 minutes!

goddamn this is great

Sounding real good for sure.

Is it too soon for an album to look a decade ago for sounds? Some of the beats and samples suggest Hot Chip and Burial.

this shit is pretty fun imo

Really good album ender too -- knows how to wrap things up just right.

Man, good for Zack Sekoff.