Vince Staples DARK TIMES 5/24 Discussion Thread

[Zero]

Self titled was the last album I think I really liked.

I gotta say, as a person who enjoys most of his music, I'm not a fan of the downtempo, slow, lethargic Vince Staples.

I just find it boring and its a chore to listen to these albums more than a couple of times (for me). And that's saying something because most of these albums are like 35-40 minutes

Last time I felt dude was Hell Can Wait and Summertime 06

I'll give this a whirl sometime

 

[Black Ball]

Vince gets to her crib and her actual boyfriend/man is home, so she introduces Vince as her "little cousin Justin" so her man doesn't know she was bringing home another dude.

I need to listen again. I heard it exactly the other way around. Makes perfect sense lol

 

[JP_614]

4/5 I felt like the first half was dark toned. Speaking some real life shyt coming out the environment he grew up in. Shame on the devil is a dope song. Etouffee is when he picked it up the pace was great. Love for the ghetto. Radio also another good track love the sample. I felt he did his thing. Wasn’t too long just enough to give you a message and something to think about.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Mixing on this project is A1

 

[Piff Perkins]

Étouffée

 

[tru_m.a.c]

Little homies is my joint

 

[Gizza]

“Ramona Park” & “Melt my Eyez” was rap AOTY 2022 to me idgaf. His self titled album was ill also so let’s spin this ASAP!

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Only know him from Norf Norf and the TV show, but will listen.

I'd really like to see the West Coast back in hip-hop in a major way, so I'm eager to check out any good albums from West Coast artists.

Where the hell you been the past 13 years breh? The west been back

 

[superchoops]

love when vince has some random hard ass one liner and just keeps it movin

didn't know i was about that life til his was over

 

[Izanami]

Moody dark vibes with some up beat shyt sprinkled in (Etouffee, Radio and Doesn’t Matter). I’m digging the storytelling on this. Vince delivered another solid project not better than his last two but dope still.

 

[criminology]

Yeah this is it.

 

[Flight]

Ramona Park and Long Beach did some long term damage to my dawg….

Government Cheese is incredible. Enjoyed the self reflective nature of the album and really enjoyed the homage to the Nikki and James Baldwin convo on Liars

 

[Paper Boi]

8/10 and room to grow

off 2 listens

 

[Da_Eggman]

“I know they finna play some Nelly today/ My favorite rapper ’til I hit seventh grade/ And Eron played ‘Below the Heavens’ and everything changed/ A better day was just a stones throw away”

Nelly is on the clock

 

[Sabretooth]

I don't buy vinyl so hopefully he puts a CD up on his store at some point. I have all his other albums except FM!