℗ 2024 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings
Released May 24, 2024
Duration 35m 06s
Record Label Def Jam Recordings
Genre Hip Hop
 

Dark Times [Edited / Clean]

Vince Staples

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1.1
Close Your Eyes and Swing  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
0:31
1.2
Black&Blue  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
3:19
1.3
Government Cheese  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
2:45
1.4
Children’s Song  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
2:13
1.5
Shame On The Devil  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
3:25
1.6
Étouffée  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
4:28
1.7
Liars
Vince Staples
0:57
1.8
Justin  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
2:04
1.9
"Radio"  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
2:57
1.10
Nothing Matters  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
2:42
1.11
Little Homies  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
3:45
1.12
Freeman  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
2:35
1.13
Why Won’t the Sun Come Out?  EXPLICIT
Vince Staples
3:25
Hip Hop icon Vince Staples has released his eighth studio album, Dark Times, out via Def Jam Recordings. A new era in the prolific artist’s canon, the album is a muscular and revelatory work refining elements that have been present in his catalog for the last decade: dense lyricism over lush, layered beats; wry, melancholic observations about life; and finding pockets of light in an endless dark. Recorded over the course of seven months in North Hollywood, the album title came intuitively to Staples after he listened to the record in full, noticing heavy motifs that kept reappearing. The album cover, featuring a faintly seen noose, was similarly intuitive. “I’m Black, and that’s what we’re evading,” he says of the inspiration behind the image. “We all have our things that could kill us. We all have that imminent threat.” Dark Times follows Staples’ 2022 critically acclaimed album Ramona Park Broke My Heart, which was hailed as one of the best albums of the year by Clash, Complex, The Fader, Rolling Stone, and Vulture among others. The Los Angeles Times praised Staples as “a nimble rapper, deftly maneuvering through verses depicting the street politics of his native Long Beach,” while Pitchfork called the album “a richly detailed, deadpan elegy for his stolen youth.”
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Def Jam Recordings Studio Masters
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-1.09 to -0.45
-12.06
-20.05 to -8.96
-10.38
-17.80 to -7.40
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5 to 11
1
Close Your Eyes and Swing
-0.45-20.05-17.811
2
Black&Blue
-0.45-8.96-7.45
3
Government Cheese
-0.45-10.62-9.16
4
Children’s Song
-0.45-11.46-10.36
5
Shame On The Devil
-0.45-10.04-8.25
6
Étouffée
-0.45-9.78-8.85
7
Liars
-1.09-17.37-14.611
8
Justin
-0.45-10.29-8.95
9
"Radio"
-0.45-12.51-11.36
10
Nothing Matters
-0.45-10.11-8.75
11
Little Homies
-0.45-10.42-9.05
12
Freeman
-0.45-10.73-9.25
13
Why Won’t the Sun Come Out?
-0.45-14.43-11.67

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