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Vince Staples Searches for Light on ‘Dark Times,’ His Most Vulnerable Project to Date: Album Review
Vince Staples plumbs new depths and goes vulnerable on his sixth album 'Dark Times.'
Vince typically faces these realities with a phalanx of defiance and sardonicism, but he lowers his shield on his sixth album Dark Times, a project that trades in his steely gaze for spurts of surprisingly bleary-eyed reflection. “Asked how I was, he seen me on ABC / Told him that I was good, I wonder if he believed / Couldn’t tell him the truth / What kind of homie would I be?/Knowing these 15 minutes the only time that he free,” he spits over a squealing West Coast synth that colors the overcast piano. Equal parts bleak and merciful, it’s a tightrope act that plays out as a sullen version of 2Pac’s “Keep Ya Head Up”; Vince says you shouldn’t forget to smile, but his tepid delivery doesn’t convince you it will do any good.
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