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Ease has never suitedVince Staples.
The Long Beach artist has a flair for difficulty and distinction.
Staples never speaks lightly: The burden of a self-imposed command toward constant evolution presses down on his language.
This the sound I made, wont nobody knock me off my wave.
Translation: He knows what he is doing.
Produced by StaplessSummertime06collaborator DJ Dahi, the beat for GTFOMD is plain but rich.
In response, he does what he was planning to do anyway.
Grounded in a stable tone, he experiments further with sounds and flows.
