Vince Staples' first full-length for Def Jam is brilliant. The Long Beach rapper expresses complex ideas in plain, hard sentences, ones that can be handed to you like a pamphlet.
His rapping is conversational, but these are the conversations you have when all optimism has been burned away.
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