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Like, duh, try not to hit anyone at the premier gala in your profession.
But playing it off as unconscionable behavior was an odd choice.
It wasnt even the tenth-wildest story in Los Angeles that week.
Americans have a paradoxical relationship with violence.
But city residents are every bit as susceptible to scaremongering.
Vinces videos often play out this way.
Theyre compact horror stories with unexpected twists.
They lure you into a sense of comfort they gleefully snatch away.
The same albums Are You With That?
is set to a scene where the artist is slowly chased by a car that runs him over.
The taut, minimal beats onSummertimecame as a shock after the more traditional gangsta-rap vibe of 2014sHell Can WaitEP.
On 2017sBig Fish Theory, Vince pivoted to coarse, edgy dance music and divided the fandom.
(Or so the logic goes.Big Fishis, at present, the best-selling album in his catalogue.
No one knows what they want from a Vince Staples album.
He doesnt care to placate us anyhow.
DJ Quik pays homage to the rapper-producers 1995 gem Dollaz + Sense and calls him in for scratches.
Papercuts references 2Pacs Picture Me Rolling over a beat by TDE regular DJ Dahi.
The breezy Ty Dolla $ign collab Lemonade mentions Schoolboy Q and Pomona rap icon Suga Free.
(The album isntonlydrawing from Cali rap influences.
Rose Street carries a faint whiff of Mya and Jay-Zs Best of Me, Part 2.
When Sparks Fly pulls drums from Mobb Deeps More Trife Life.
Death is the only certainty throughoutRamona Park Broke My Heart.
You think that Aye!
Sparks is another classic full-song double entendre in the spirit of Commons I Used to Love H.E.R.
The pen game is frequently this chilling.
/ Just keep it real with me, I dont need no sympathy.
As a nation, we remain overly reliant on carceral solutions that have not panned out as easy fixes.
Everybody thinks they know what should happenaftera violent act occurs.
There arent so many clever ideas about how to curtail the conflicts that feed it.
So the cycle continues.
