Genius Meanings
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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 (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & KUČKA) – Yeah Right
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“Yeah Right” is the 7th track on Vince Staples' sophomore album, Big Fish Theory. The track is a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, Kučka, electronic record producer Flume, and PC
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Vince Staples (Ft. Damon Albarn, Kilo Kish & Ray J) – Love Can Be...
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Vince Staples has worked with the production duo GTA again after a previous collaboration together on “Little Bit of This.” With vocals from Gorillaz member Damon Albarn and Kilo
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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 & Yugen Blakrok (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – 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 (Ft. A$AP Rocky & Kilo Kish) – SAMO
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“SAMO” is the ninth track off of Big Fish Theory. The title is most likely a reference to a graffiti tag developed by renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz
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Vince Staples (Ft. Kilo Kish) – Homage
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In “Homage,” Vince Staples depicts his life and success as a rapper while demonstrating any shortcomings or obstacles will not faze him. Staples also contradicts his life as a
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Vince Staples (Ft. Ty Dolla $ign) – Rain Come Down
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“Rain Come Down” is the third single from Vince Staple’s 2017 album, Big Fish Theory. The song marks Vince’s first collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign, who sings the chorus. The song
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Vince Staples – Party People
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Vince Staples lives a sober life, staying away from drugs and alcohol, as he mentioned in a 2015 reddit AMA, as he stated, “I will never do drugs.”
Although Staples stays away
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Vince Staples (Ft. Kilo Kish) – Crabs in a Bucket
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The “crabs in a bucket” mentality can be described as an “if I can’t have it, neither can you” train of thought. Crabs trapped in a bucket will grapple and climb over each other
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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 – Alyssa Interlude
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The intro for this song samples an interview from Amy Winehouse, where she talks about her experiences with love. This interview was featured in the documentary Amy, which
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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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Vince Staples – Ramona Park Is Yankee Stadium
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The title of the song is a reference to the significant Crip presence in the Ramona Park area of Long Beach, CA. The Crips in that area that Vince was part of, the Naughty Nasty
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Snoh Aalegra (Ft. Vince Staples) – Nothing Burns Like the Cold
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Snoh is joined by frequent collaborator and label mate, Vince Staples. The song is about a struggling relationship between a man and woman. Both partners face the reality that it
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Earl Sweatshirt (Ft. Casey Veggies & Vince Staples) – Hive
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“Hive” features a very ominous and menacing instrumental, creating a very eerie atmosphere. The rapping features numerous instances of multiple assonant rhymes, from which Earl is
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Boldy James & The Alchemist (Ft. Vince Staples) – Surf & Turf
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[Intro: Boldy James] / Where we at with it? / Blockworks, let's get it / [Verse 1: Boldy James] / Slums of Detroit, drugs from the port, plugged with the source / Gun in my shorts
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DeadHomies95 – Every Hip Hop Album I've Listened to in 2017
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JANUARY / Tha God Fahim - Tha Dark Shogunn Saga Vol. 2 / Nick Grant - Return of the Cool / TriState & Oh No - 3 Dimensional Prescriptions / Knxwledge - WT.PRT10.8_ / Hus Kingpin
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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 – Trunk Rattle
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The song was inspired after Vince’s first listen to the Wu-Tang. He robbed a store of two Wu-Tang and a Ghostface Killah shirt and decided that now he has the shirts he might as
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This Week on Genius [6/19 - 6/25]
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Hey everyone!
This Week On Genius highlights all the dope stuff that’s happened in the Genius Community in the past week. It drops every Sunday and includes stuff like hot annotations, dope scribes, cool articles, fresh editors, and those up and coming users who might not be on your radar yet. If you have any suggestions on what should be included, send it to a community staffer before Sunday and one of us will make sure we include it :)
Check out last week on Genius here.
Hot tates
@drew_harvie and @homeofphilly wrote this contextual tate about Drake’s vacationing habits:
https://genius.com/12215014
@nsre dropped this gem about Papoose lurking on Nicki’s instagram:
https://genius.com/12208202
@drdreisthegoat and @alisarouth collabed for this Pocahontas tate:
https://genius.com/12212233
The sun set over Kendrick town for @chaspr and @brianerwin:
https://genius.com/12205759
@pineapple_13, @OGMaster7969, and @meeqwell took a dive with this tate:
https://genius.com/11871669
Dope scribes
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autumnn – All the songs i enjoy listening to because i feel like making it
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now that ive spent hours on this i have no motivation to update it so this is all you get
im actually done with this one so if i stop liking anything i probably wont remove it
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Vince Staples (Ft. James Fauntleroy) – Nate
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In the song, Vince raps about his drug dealing father, and how this impacted his life as a whole.
Nate is the first single from Vince Staples' Shyne Coldchain, Vol.2. It
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BFB Da Packman – Northside Ghetto Soulja
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[Intro] / (¿Estás con la compañía de lunche?) / (JT on the track again) / Yeah / Yeah / Uh / Ayy / [Verse 1] / Bitch, I swear to God a million dollars look as lovely as Rihanna
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Vince Staples – Get The Fuck Off My Dick
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In a spectacular move, this single was released a day after Vince Staples set up a GoFundMe campaign called #GTFOMD in response to criticism on his music and his stage shows. He
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Brock C – 2017
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this is where i document #content i have consumed and created throughout 2017
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Vince Staples – Earth Science
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Named after the 7th period mentioned in verse two.
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Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
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“Yonkers” is the first single off Tyler, The Creator’s debut album, Goblin and is widely considered as his breakout song.
The song’s title is named after the city of Yonkers, New
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Vince Staples – Progressive III
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Progressive 3 is the opening track of Vince’s forth release “Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2”. Progressive 3 is also a reference to the previous song, Progressive 2, the opening track of
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Tyler, The Creator (Ft. Kali Uchis) – For The Time Being
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Lyrics From Snippet / [Verse 1: Kali Uchis] / Every time I make it right / [?] bright lights / I really wanna make it right / I want you to be in my life / [Chorus 1: Tyler, the
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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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Kendrick Lamar Surprised Audiences During Vince Staples & SZA’s Coachella Sets
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The Compton rapper performed his “Yeah Right” verse and joined his labelmate for a medley performance.
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OutKast – Ms. Jackson
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The second single from Stankonia, “Ms. Jackson” catapulted the Southern rap duo OutKast into the mainstream, reaching the top 5 in several countries and becoming their first of
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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 (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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OutKast – ATLiens
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[Verse 1: Big Boi] / Check it / Well it's the M-I-crooked letter, ain't no one better / And when I'm on the microphone you best to wear your sweater / 'Cause I'm cooler than a
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Vince Staples – Locked & Loaded
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Locked and loaded by Vince staples is the second track on his Shyne Cold Chain vol.2 mixtape.On this track Vince expresses how he survives by shooting/gang-banging in his daily
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The Genius Community’s 50 Best Albums of 2017
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Kelela, Young Thug, Rapsody and more made the cut, but who topped the list?
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Vince Staples – Turn
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Vince spit this verse acapella for Revolt on 3/5/14 during an interview
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Da$H (Ft. Vince Staples) – Aristocratic Anarchy
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[Verse 1: Da$H] / Rap game Hunter S. Thompson or Jim Morrison prophet / Bitch took a few hits of acid and think my dick is the Lochness / I'm faded off this actavis, got me
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ScopeY (Ft. turkwegian) – Almost Every Album I've Listened To
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Total: 1882 / 1980 / Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Blow / The Sugarhill Gang - Sugarhill Gang / =2 / 1981 / Kurtis Blow - Deuces / =1 / 1982 / Beastie Boys - Pollywog Stew EP / Grandmaster
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