Rembrandt
the artist
Vince killed this and Big Time is a contender for one of the best songs of the year right now.
Vince Staples - “Prima Donna” EP (Discussion Thread)
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altruicsense
Lord of the 7 Kingdoms
this shyt is fire.. fukk u guys talkin about? Coli comments so fakin misleading 
Fade Runner 2049
Veteran
Buns
FruitOfTheVale
Superstar
What I like about Vince is hes a great lyricist and he can stay the fukk on topic.
you cant say the same for these other overhyped rappers that divert to other shyt outside the subject they were talking about. when they try to exercise their lyricism.
Let alone say corny as fukkin lines
Lookin at you J.Cole
Real talk, Vince got the craft of topical writing down better than most.
Recca Gatsby
LWO
This shyt is fukkin dope wtf are yal talking about??? Finally got around to listening after hearing that Lil Bibby and Isaiah Rashad too--all three dope.
Recca Gatsby
LWO
War ready my fav track fukkin love everything about it.
The production
the bars
the presence, flow and delievery
that catchy ass hook
that song make me want to jump up and start rapping right now
Breh why does that song sound SOOOO familiar?? I felt like I had heard it before listening.
Concerning VIolence
Decolonizer
This EP is a conceptual masterpiece. Playing the tracklist backwards is crazy.
It's hard to explain the amount of signifying and depth and meaning this project has.
A prototypical braggadocious rapper unphased by success and capitalist glamor, consumerism, and materialism because they are all unfulfilling, ultimately succumbs to suicide. Rarely is the concept of suicide and mental health and the concept of unfullfilment with success addressed in hip-hop. I feel this EP is very important.
It's like the perfect deconstruction of mainstream hip-hop's tropes and beliefs.
All the usual hip-hop tropes are turned on their head; overall dissatification with what most mainstream rappers revel in (success, glamor, money, hedonism). Self-deprication. The existentialism of a black man. And embracing depression/suicide. All of this is hidden under a vener of typical rap bravado.
Vince's songs have this general layer of nihilism that work perfectly at showing what message he's trying to explain without actually explaining it.
From Big Time (all generic rap theme song about becoming "big time" and being successful) to Let it Shine (suicide) shows the desecent of his psyche. All that bragging and gangster posteuring is just a veil to his personal madness.
"Buy a millon dollar home and blow my dome to paint the kitchen"
"At the Marriot, having Kurt Cobain dreams... No time to think, KABOOM on the sink"
"A wise man once said... that a black man better off dead, So I'm war ready"
It's hard to explain the amount of signifying and depth and meaning this project has.
A prototypical braggadocious rapper unphased by success and capitalist glamor, consumerism, and materialism because they are all unfulfilling, ultimately succumbs to suicide. Rarely is the concept of suicide and mental health and the concept of unfullfilment with success addressed in hip-hop. I feel this EP is very important.
It's like the perfect deconstruction of mainstream hip-hop's tropes and beliefs.
All the usual hip-hop tropes are turned on their head; overall dissatification with what most mainstream rappers revel in (success, glamor, money, hedonism). Self-deprication. The existentialism of a black man. And embracing depression/suicide. All of this is hidden under a vener of typical rap bravado.
Vince's songs have this general layer of nihilism that work perfectly at showing what message he's trying to explain without actually explaining it.
From Big Time (all generic rap theme song about becoming "big time" and being successful) to Let it Shine (suicide) shows the desecent of his psyche. All that bragging and gangster posteuring is just a veil to his personal madness.
"Buy a millon dollar home and blow my dome to paint the kitchen"
"At the Marriot, having Kurt Cobain dreams... No time to think, KABOOM on the sink"
"A wise man once said... that a black man better off dead, So I'm war ready"
Recca Gatsby
LWO
Backwards?
Rembrandt
the artist
it's a concept album. i haven't heard it backwards yet but i might do that soon. the short film was kind of a disappointment, imo, especially considering how good the videos for summertime are.