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Vince Staples – ARE YOU WITH THAT?
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[Intro] / Yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah / Yeah, yeah / (Ayy) / [Verse 1] / City goin' up (Up), so you better bust / Finna see who really one of us / Really spillin' blood (
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Vince Staples (Ft. Jhené Aiko) – Oh You Scared
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[Produced by Childish Major] / [Verse 1: Vince Staples] / Nigga, what's the deal? Pay attention / Most the time that I've been living we been public housing tenants / Never had no
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Vince Staples (Ft. Kilo Kish) – Surf
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Surf compares the cycle of systemic poverty in the inner cities to the cycle of the tide at the beach, tackling subjects like drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and public indifference
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Vince Staples & Larry Fisherman – Thought About You
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[Verse 1] / I just wanna get my bread / And talk my shit 'fore I end up dead / I got all this blood sitting on my hands / I never gave no fuck, so they understand / Why I feel this
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With You. (Ft. Santigold & Vince Staples) – Give It All
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[Intro: Vince Staples & Santigold] / I got the power / I got the power / I got the power / I got the power, I came to let 'em know I got the power / I got the power, I came to let
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Vince Staples, 6LACK & Mereba – Yo Love
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[Intro: Mereba] / Ride for you, I / Ride for you, I / Ride for you, I / Ride for you, I, I / Ride for you, I / Ride for you, I / Ride for you, I / Ride for you, I / [Verse 1: Vince
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Vince Staples – WHEN SPARKS FLY
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[Chorus: Lyves] / It's been two years, I keep calling / I'm standing here and I ain't got you / As we lay here, lovers in arms / I can feel your fear, can this love be true? / Come
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With You. (Ft. Vince Staples) – Ghost
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[Verse 1: Vince Staples] / She loaded, I mean it, pills and potion / Prescriptions and so more shit / Heartbeat and tryna focus, I mean it, she a novice / To those vices since that
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Vince Staples – Summertime
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After being driven crazy and wanting to build a life with the woman mentioned throughout the album, the final track on the first disc touches on a lighter side of Vince as he
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Vince Staples – Humble
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[Hook] / Homie, I ain't humble, I deserve this shit / I'm from the side of the curb where the birds get flipped / So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you / Fuck you, fuck you
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Vince Staples – Trigga Witta Heart
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Vince Staples – Vince Staples
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In October 2016, Vince Staples went on Hot 97 to spit a mean freestyle over the Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon’s “Ice Cream” for Funk Flex.
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Vince Staples – Norf Norf
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One of three Clams Casino produced tracks on Summertime ‘06, “Norf Norf” finds Vince Staples pridefully repping his origins; the Norfside of Long Beach, CA. Vince talked about the
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Vince Staples – ARE YOU WITH THAT? Samples
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See all of “ARE YOU WITH THAT?” by Vince Staples’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Vince Staples – '06 (Full Version)
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[Chorus] / Good mornin', hope you had a good time last night / I need money from e'rybody, mo'fucker, better pay your tithes / Now I can change your life, fuck what's wrong, fuck
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Vince Staples – Like It Is
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Summertime ‘06 comes full circle, continuing the theme presented in track 2 “Lift Me Up”, of Vince wanting to ascend from the hell on earth that is the ghetto.
The track contains
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Vince Staples & Larry Fisherman (Ft. Joey Fatts) – Fantoms
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[Verse 1: Vince Staples] / Understand me, nigga, don’t need no Grammys, give us / The money you got in your pockets, I feel like taxing, nigga (Give it up, nigga) / 'Bout the
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Vince Staples – Super
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This is Vince’s first song. It is clearly a love song written about a girl that he just met, but is perfect for him.
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Vince Staples (Ft. Snoh Aalegra) – Jump Off the Roof
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Coming off a song like “Dopeman”, it’s fitting the next track focuses on Vince’s addictions and vices. From love & sex to drugs, Vince questions his control over these things
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Vince Staples – PLAYER WAYS
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[Chorus] / Ayy, I keep it funky with the bitches, I got player ways / Can't fall asleep after I hit, I gotta stay awake / I bust it down, she want the rounds, I gotta take a break
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Vince Staples – PLAYER WAYS
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[Chorus] / Ayy, I keep it funky with the bitches, I got player ways / Can't fall asleep after I hit, I gotta stay awake / I bust it down, she want the rounds, I gotta take a break
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Vince Staples & Lil Baby – EAST POINT PRAYER
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[Chorus: Vince Staples] / Money, mantra / Hundred racks plus, duffle bag stuffed / Better not slip, I'ma crash, yeah / You ain't shot shit, get your stats up / Kept the sticks lit
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Vince Staples – BagBak
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Vince Staples announced “BagBak” on social media, saying the song is coming February 3rd, 2017.
https://twitter.com/vincestaples/status/826476838927028224
It is a single on Big
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Vince Staples – Waterpark
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[Intro: Vince Staples] / Yeah nigga I'm out here shining / You see me bitch, I don't see you though / Fake ass, fraud ass rap niggas / You on Twitter though, where you hiding at
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Earl Sweatshirt (Ft. Vince Staples) – Burgundy
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Produced by The Neptunes, this is the second track off of Earl’s debut studio album, Doris. Pictures were released earlier of Pharrell and Earl working in the studio, and this was
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Vince Staples (Ft. Juicy J) – Big Fish
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“Big Fish” is the second single off of Vince’s 2nd studio album Big Fish Theory. Vince muses on the ways in which rap has changed his life and how far he’s come. On the same day of
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Vince Staples & Yugen Blakrok – Opps
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“Opps” (derived from the word ‘opposition’) is a term for cops or an opposite gang, against whom this song is directed. This marks the 2nd collaboration between California rappers
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Vince Staples & Mustard – MAGIC
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“MAGIC” is the lead single to Staples' fifth studio album, RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART. It marks his first collaboration with the project’s executive producer, Mustard, a fellow
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Charlie Puth – Suffer (Vince Staples & AndreaLo Remix)
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Continuing with the rap remixes after “Marvin Gaye” and “One Call Away”, Charlie dropped a brand new version of “Suffer” on February 19, 2016. With the help of AndreaLo, the song
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Vince Staples – 745
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Vince raps over a g funk/detroit techno fusion beat provided by Jimmy Edgar.
The track has Vince driving around town in a BMW 745i, an early-mid 2000s model in BMW’s luxury sedan
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Joey Fatts – Vince Staples Intro
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[Intro] / G Way / [Vince Staples] / Stay ten toes / You know where we came from, you know what we seen / Who was there, who wasn't there / We made it count, we made it really
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Vince Staples – C.N.B.
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C.N.B. is an abbreviation of Coldest Nigga Breathing.
Vince is cutting through the bullshit to assert his realness and speak on some issues facing his community, namely racism
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Vince Staples (Ft. Teyana Taylor) – Limos
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Track 6 on Vince Staples' “Hell Can Wait”. It samples Mary J. Blige’s song “I Can Love You” from her album “Share My World” (1997).
Name possibly a reference to his song “Taxi
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Vince Staples & Larry Fisherman (Ft. ScHoolboy Q) – Back Sellin' Crack
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In “Back Sellin' Crack”, Vince shows a side of the hood that’s inevitable because you got people that wanna make it out the hood and be more than what they are but, the hood is
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Vince Staples – LORD
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[Intro] / In '76, you know, they'd stop fighting / They just start shooting / You know, and it was somethin' new to me / You know we use to fight all the time / And the next minute
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Vince Staples – 3230
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3230 is the address on Poppy Street where Vince lived the latter part of his life in north LB. His neighborhood was even featured earlier in 2015 when he toured it with Complex:
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Billie Eilish & Vince Staples – &burn
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“&burn” is the first Billie Eilish release since she dropped her debut EP dont smile at me (on August 11th 2017), and marks first Billie’s collaboration (outside the ocean eyes
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Vince Staples – 45
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[Produced by No I.D.] / [Intro] / All the time, all the time, all time / All the time, all the time, all time / Aight, you ready? / [Verse 1] / What do you believe in? (What's that
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Vince Staples – NAMELESS
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[Interlude] / I think it's wrong but then it's called, "Survival" / You have to eat / You have to pay bills / You have to survive / So when get you used to pullin' a trigger on
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Vince Staples & Mustard – BANG THAT
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[Chorus] / Find me by the water, I can bang now / All about a dollar, I can bang that, yeah / Ridin' for my partners, I can bang that / I do what I wanna, I can bang that / (
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Vince Staples (Ft. Kilo Kish) – Loco
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“Loco” is the fourth song on Prima Donna. Here, Staples talks about the crazy side of his life and how he continues to cherish it.
Note the title’s similarity to that of “Loca
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Vince Staples (Ft. Joey Fatts & Kilo Kish) – Dopeman
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Moving from one vice to another, Vince moves back to the aspect of survival and making money. Selling drugs provides said funds, another trait passed down from his father.
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NPR Microphone Check (Ft. Vince Staples) – Vince Staples: 'My Job Is To Keep My Sanity'
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Transcript of the Interview done by NPR show Microphone Check hosts Frannie Kelly and Ail Shaheed Muhammad with Vince Staples.
This interview is centered around Staplel’s album
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