In current hip-hop, Vince Staples is without parallel when it comes to sneering wit. The Los Angeles MC’s concise 2018 Def Jam dispatch, FM!, is a colorful, subversive assessment of contemporary culture—and he’s reportedly set to follow it with four full-length albums later this year. Regardless of Staples’s lyrical abundance and profundity, there aren’t too […]
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