On 'Ramona Park Broke My Heart,' Vince Staples gazes backward from the perspective of adulthood, having made it out of Long Beach with a load of regrets and a yearning desire. Here's our review ⬇️
For the most part, this record avoids that trap. The production is sharper around the margins, and the sound is colorful, regal, and characteristically counterintuitive — meant to be heard in gardens with bullet shells in them and flowers blossoming, the perfect landscape for Staple’s world-weary sermons about fighting for capital and scraps in the hood.
Staples’ music still deals with being an adolescent in a hub of violence. He gazes backward from the perspective of adulthood, having made it out of Long Beach with a load of regrets and a yearning desire. “When Sparks Fly” is a love story about a gun, in the vein of Nas, but it’s less showy. Staples goes into a voiceover-sounding cadence, and it works: “Still here I am, waiting ‘round, dreaming that you coming home/Right your wrongs, take me out,” he croons stoically.
Staples’s contrarian streak has sometimes led him to make albums that are too brief. This one is abundant and thicker. Production from Mustard and DJ Dahi provides Staples with the casual backdrop he needs, and he remains an adept writer. That said, he still hasn’t outgrown his tendency to let his voice fade from the center of a song.
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