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Album Review: Vince Staples's Summertime '06

Vince Staples returns with his first full length album, and it’s really good. The album is very dark. In fact for me, personally, Summer 06 was a dark as well. No ID, Kanye’s mentor, produced a lot of tracks here. The beats are banging and Vince is a very capable rapper. The album is a double disc, but each is short so really its just about 60 mins long. I don’t normally say this, but some songs shoulda been longer.  There is a short guest list here as well. Overall though I think this is a shade above his EP Hell Can Wait. Vince may be the next great rapper, I mean after the guys that are already established: Drake, Kendrick, J.Cole etc.





The verdict: I really like this album, its not quite an elite rap album tho but hey its a debut...
9.4/10
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