Vince Staples has introduced a brand new album titled Darkish Occasions. It’s his last album on Def Jam Recordings. The follow-up to 2022’s Ramona Park Broke My Coronary heart will arrive this Friday, Could 24. The Lengthy Seaside rapper has additionally unveiled the brand new track “Disgrace on the Satan” with a cut up display screen music video, that includes a close-up shot of his face on the suitable whereas he raps the track’s lyrics, and a shot of individuals’s shadows solid on the nook of a room on the left. Test it out beneath.
After releasing Ramona Park Broke My Coronary heart as a companion piece to his 2021 self-titled album, Staples teamed up with Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist for the Voir Dire track “The Caliphate” in 2023. That very same 12 months, he additionally labored with the Alchemist on “Lonnie P.”
Staples debuted his satirical Netflix comedy sequence The Vince Staples Present in February. The five-episode present stars Staples as a semi-fictionalized model of himself as he navigates life. It co-stars Vanessa Bell Calloway and Andrea Ellsworth, with recurring appearances from Naté Jones, Arturo Castro, Scott MacArthur, Bryan Greenberg, and Myles Bullock.
Def Jam helped launch Staples’ profession with the discharge of the Hell Can Wait EP in October 2014. His beloved studio debut, Summertime ’06, arrived the next 12 months. Staples shared three extra Def Jam initiatives—Prima Donna, Large Fish Principle, and FM!—earlier than turning to Motown Data for Vince Staples and Ramona Park Broke My Coronary heart. Starting with Large Fish Principle, and persevering with on via Darkish Occasions, Staples’ initiatives have all been co-released through Blacksmith.
Examine Summertime ’06 in Pitchfork’s checklist of “The 200 Finest Albums of the 2010s.”
