Vince Staples

Dark Times

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Recording artist Vince Staples has come a long way from his trying upbringing in Long Beach, California’s Ramona Park neighborhood. Releasing his critically acclaimed debut Summertime ’06 album in 2015, the then twenty-year-old saw his life turned right side up, going from being nearly trapped to having what appeared to be complete freedom.

Yet, as his most recent project, Big Fish Theory, suggests, appearances can be deceiving. The LP delves into the confusion of sudden fame and acclimating to a lifestyle antithetical to the one he’d known in Long Beach – one wrought with gang violence and poverty. It’s a fundamental narrative in hip hop, but rappers have always found a new way to breathe life into it. Staples brings forth a vision that’s brutal, elegant, playful, and despondent in one breath.

Such is the nature of his music, as self and socially aware as it is comical. With Prima Donna and Summertime ’06 behind him, Staples has set the tone for what’s yet to come. A standout rapper in today’s hip hop world, he keeps his sound deeply tied to his west coast roots and his message one that knows no boundaries. 

In a world of full of painful departures, his art gives listeners reason to believe that, somehow, as he advances, the people who have left him and the people who he&#39;s left behind will still be waiting for him at the end.

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RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART by Vince Staples

Bro whoever edited this shit need several awards 🔥🔥🔥

The kid at the end is the norf norf ranting mom&#39;s son 😂

The kid at the end is the norf norf ranting mom's son 😂

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9-pXuvFEU&amp;t=104">1:44</a> Kenny Beats at work

This whole video and the ending to it is just pure gold bruh😂 Vince talking about how suburban kids really trynna see and maybe even wished they lived that hood life? Y’all peep the “free Kodak” poster in the back?

Premise of the video... &quot;We live it, you watch it&quot;.

Premise of the video... "We live it, you watch it".

Vince staples still the most underrated artist today

This song feels like it should’ve been way bigger than it actually was. <br>Sooooooooo catchy

This song feels like it should’ve been way bigger than it actually was. 
Sooooooooo catchy

VINCE STAPLES was my favorite album of last year, a legit 10/10 album, imo. This track is f&#39;n beautiful as well, if he drops another classic back to back... we gone&#39; need to have a conversation about this man&#39;s status in Hip Hop.

VINCE STAPLES was my favorite album of last year, a legit 10/10 album, imo. This track is f'n beautiful as well, if he drops another classic back to back... we gone' need to have a conversation about this man's status in Hip Hop.

The beat, the hook, the flow. This is magic

Can’t wait to play this song on a late summer night

The way Vince embodies the feeling of the color blue and how it feels to be so dangerous and so calm at the same time, like the ocean, is magic.

My eyes popped out of my head, I didn&#39;t expect Vince to drop. This era really shows his range and another side of his musicality. I&#39;m excited for what&#39;s next 💙🤌🏾

My eyes popped out of my head, I didn't expect Vince to drop. This era really shows his range and another side of his musicality. I'm excited for what's next 💙🤌🏾

Not only one of the best songs on the album, but one of Vince’s best songs ever. Incredible 🔥

Mac would’ve been so proud of this masterpiece.

The most haunting and clever line here is the “across the street from Cherry park” line. I live in Long Beach and there is a cemetery across from that park. The absolute perfect juxtaposition of life and death without actually saying it. Excellent work Mr. Staples.

For anyone who doesn&#39;t know, this song is also about the relationship between a person and a gun. Beautiful. Great job Vince.

For anyone who doesn't know, this song is also about the relationship between a person and a gun. Beautiful. Great job Vince.

Vince is really one of the best. So many double entendres in one song.

This album is going to take Vince to another level despite the subpar reaction/review ratings I’ve seen from YouTubers… this is my album of the year so far, glad I have something to bring in the summer with, &amp; I can’t wait for Kendrick’s album coming up!

This album is going to take Vince to another level despite the subpar reaction/review ratings I’ve seen from YouTubers… this is my album of the year so far, glad I have something to bring in the summer with, & I can’t wait for Kendrick’s album coming up!

You know when a song is exactly what you needed at a particular moment and it ends up being something you&#39;re grateful for....

You know when a song is exactly what you needed at a particular moment and it ends up being something you're grateful for....

RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART 💔

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Vince Staples - FUN! (Official Video)

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LYRICS

[Chorus]
Feeling like I’m floating to the ceiling, is it magic?
Baby tell me why you’re disappearing, is it magic?
I won’t ever tell ‘em how I did it, it was magic
Can you imagine? Money in the mattress

Love the way I stack it 
I can make it rain blue hundreds, can you catch it?
If somebody come thru bluffin’ I’mma blast ‘em
And tell the police I don't know what happened

[Verse 1]
If I gave a fuck about a citch, I’d always be broke
I’d never get to pull up in a benz with my LOCs
Growing up, we was poor so we hopped off that porch
With a gun tryna blow, tryna kick down your door

But that’s old news. Spreading love now
Sick of police lights, sick of gun sounds
Niggas bread ain’t up so they come foul
But it’s handshakes, hugs when I come ‘round. Wow

Funny style, hate to see a nigga smiling
Hundred miles and runnin’ through the public housing
Moving mountains, for who I was stomping down with
Gunning down shit, sitting in the back of Crown Vics

So janky, know the niggas down the street still hate me
Hope lil baby know that she can’t play me
Dumb hoe, love costs but the game free
Dumb hoe

[Chorus]
Feeling like I’m floating to the ceiling, is it magic?
Baby tell me why you’re disappearing, is it magic?
I won’t ever tell ‘em how I did it, it was magic
Can you imagine? Money in the mattress

Love the way I stack it 
I can make it rain blue hundreds, can you catch it?
If somebody come thru bluffin’ I’mma blast ‘em
And tell the police I don't know what happened

[Verse 2]
Crip and Blood shit
That’s the only thing I’ve ever been in love with
So I hope you know we never going public
Hands full so I can’t hold grudges

Nah, I be thuggin
Jumping out the back seat bustin’
Everybody we be beefing with be saying that they bleeding shit
But see us and they don’t do nothing

Aww, put it on the dead LOCs
They know I been ‘bout it ‘bout it since the get go
If I hit the corner clickin, better get low
You ain’t wit it nigga, what you from the set for? Huh?

I just wanna be successful
You will never ever see me with my head low
Mama met my daddy then they had me in the ghetto
Handed me a .38 and told me I was special. Norf

[Chorus]
Feeling like I’m floating to the ceiling, is it magic?
Baby tell me why you’re disappearing, is it magic?
I won’t ever tell ‘em how I did it, it was magic
Can you imagine? Money in the mattress

Love the way I stack it 
I can make it rain blue hundreds, can you catch it?
If somebody come thru bluffin’ I’mma blast ‘em
And tell the police I don't know what happened

[Chorus]
Feeling like I’m floating to the ceiling, is it magic?
Baby tell me why you’re disappearing, is it magic?
I won’t ever tell ‘em how I did it, it was magic
Can you imagine? Money in the mattress

Love the way I stack it 
I can make it rain blue hundreds, can you catch it?
If somebody come thru bluffin’ I’mma blast ‘em
And tell the police I don't know what happened

[Outro: Mustard]
See, when you come from nothing
Then make it into something, I call that luck
But when you come from where we come from
I call that magic
And when you get two niggas from different sides of the city
To do something like this, 
I guess you could call that magic
Getting off of section 8, welfare
Now it’s Rolls Royces, private jets
That’s magic
Let me know what’s magic to you

VINCE STAPLES - "MAGIC" FEAT. MUSTARD (Visualizer)

Directed by Vince Staples & C. Blacksmith

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TAKE ME HOME (Lyric Video)

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THE SHINING (Lyric Video)

MAGIC (Official Lyric Video)

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Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart : WHEN SPARKS FLY (Visualizer)

Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart : AYE! (FREE THE HOMIES (Visualizer)

Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart : EAST POINT PRAYER (Visualizer)

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MHM (Lyric Video)

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LIARS. OUT NOW.

SHAME ON THE DEVIL.

05. Shame On The Devil
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Vince Staples

Dark Times

RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART

Vince Staples

FM!

Big Fish Theory

Prima Donna

Summertime '06

Hell Can Wait

Shame On The Devil

ROSE STREET

MAGIC

ARE YOU WITH THAT?

LAW OF AVERAGES

Real Affair (Remix) (feat. Vince Staples)

Get Up (feat. Vince Staples)

FUN! (SILO x Martin Wave Remix)

Hell Bound (Ad 01)

Yo Love (From "Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack")