Albums Vince Staples - FM! (Discussion Thread)

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He might finally have one with run the bands.

Better be the first single.

"Ran from the cops but the cops get shot now." :myman:


And I fukk with radio intros/outros. I remember Gambino having a song like that with floyd on BTI. shyt's smooth when done right.

his flows and delivery on these songs are on point, too. wild how this is straight nothing but hypercommercialized gangsta rap. this man raps dark, boldfaced lines about murder while starring in sprite commercials. shyt's still weird to me.

for somebody that claims to not care about rap, vince is very good at it and seems to put a lot of care into his art. idk what it is but he could easily cater to the lowest common denominator and put out really great, lyrical, gritty rap but each new album is something new. different concepts, new production and styles that challenge him to be more concise and pick what he says carefully.

Something he became very good at because I still think he's rapping his ass off, just in a different albeit no less impressive way. he's hitting multis throughout, internal rhymes, more elaborate rhyme schemes, all that. still painting images, but i think there's less storytelling in exchange which makes sense for radio.

the juxtapositions he's able to pull off with choruses like feel like summer and fun are wild. something i really liked from BFT.
 
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Did Mac Miller produce any songs on this?
 

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this is nice...a pleasant listen.

i like Vince, he raps well, he makes pretty good music, i've liked most of his projects but the music has no staying power for me.
this is probably just going to fall into that same pattern.

Ty singing Summertime in the LBC was a lovely to nod to that Dove Shack record.
nice to hear Earl Sweatshirt not sound like someone that'd been struck by lightning for a change too.

also, a reminder to go and listen to the album w/ Key! that Kenny Beats made this year. '777'
 

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The beats weren't for everyone. If you're not from/into the Detroit techno and house era I could see not really fuxking with it
Most probably aren’t tbh. I got into Vince Staples because of BFT. But I’m open to a lot of music.
 

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Bout to give this a first listen now, my guess is it wont sound like Big Fish Theory or Summertime 06. Vince seems to be letting each project have its own sound.
 

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Big Fish was him making Detroit electronic music. Black folk shyt that somehow has been categorized as white and hipster now.

shyt like this is how nikkas get their art finessed from them

Just like calling House music cac shyt:francis:
Fixed, agree with ur overall point tho
 

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I don’t know what y’all talking about sounding like Tribe cuz I don’t hear that at all

this is very Bay Area sounding to me like a conscience Mac Dre or somthing
Fun is definitely a nod to hyphy, as soon as the beat dropped I heard Keak Da Sneak in my head
 

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Tf happened to this thread:skip:
I hadnt listened to this project yet so I threw it on and opened this thread to see what other ppl thought of it...just finished the album and im on page 10 of the thread and I dont think anybodys posted anything related to the songs on the project yet. :pachaha:
 

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Lol literally nobody who is anybody hated BFT or had any criticism about it

Lol besides motherfukkers who don't venture outside of basic mainstream Hip Hop and RnB

Ive gotta disagree with this statement, saying nobody who is anybody criticized BFT is super inaccurate, a lot of his fans didnt like it and as Vince has stated several times he does this to make money, the fans are who is going to go to his shows, by merch and rack up streams on the various platforms, that makes them EVERYBODY. Bloggers, youtubers, magazine writers and reviews from whatever the fukk metacritic is can all be positive but if the fans dont fukk with it 2 thumbs up from Anthony Fantini wont pay Vinces mortgage
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Me and my dudes been drinking and listening to all the new albums that came. Played FM! last and was pleasantly surprised. This shxt is flames.

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Best album that dropped off first listen.​
Are you saying best album that dropped this week? Or this year? Best album out of what other projects?
 

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It was the best produced Hip Hop album

And that sound isn't even left field if you look at the overall musical soundscape the past 10 years

Hip Hop is always late because Hip Hop fans are too insular and less musically inclined...
:stopitslime: This is an argument for a different thread as this one is already 10 pages past derailed but let me just say this
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