Released: August 26th 2016
Genre: Hip Hop
Fav Tracks: Smile, War Ready, Prima Donna, Big Time, Pimp Hand
Least Fav Tracks:
Rating: 9/10
Rant: Vince Staples returns with his best release to date, overpassing Summertime '06 by far. This album never fails to excite and brings clever lyrical content and shows the up's and downs of his career. My favourite song on the album is Smile because of it's production and lyrics about how we should smile for him after he's left his friends and changed since he left home to become a musician. War Ready is a song of how Vince doesn't use guns to fight in war but uses his words/rapping skills. It samples lyrics from Andre 3000 from Outkast. Prima Donna, the title track features an appearance from A$AP Rocky in this high energy song. On Pimp Hand Vince discusses what elders think about what elders think about current rap and about how they shouldnt comment on current rap since it has changed since their time. Let it shine, the intro (sort of) is the darkest song on the EP. It's Vince singing This Little Light Of Mine a child's gospel song in a depressing and dark tone and right at the end of the song he takes his life. In many ways this song is actually the outro because if you listen to the EP from Big Time (the last track) to Let it shine it starts as him getting into fame then eventually killing himself. In conclusion this album really doesn't disappoint when it comes to production or lyrics.
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