Ramona Park broke my heart

"Vince Staples har begået et tungsindigt, indadskuende album, hvor man bliver lokket ind af poppede hooks og varme beats, men for alvor bliver fængslet af den benhårde socialrealisme, der definerer albummets lyriske univers ... Det er det tætteste, Staples nogensinde er kommet på at lave egentlig poprap, og han er overraskende god til det".

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" The production throughout Ramona Park Broke My Heart is metered and languid, with unrushed tempos and relaxed vocal deliveries on most of the material. Staples goes even deeper into memory and self-reflection on Ramona Park Broke My Heart, presenting his pain, glory, and contradictory emotions in sharper definition while turning in some of his most engaging music to date".

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"Staples' new album, Ramona Park Broke My Heart, is an elegy for his stolen youth-a subtle lament for the life he's led that also pines for the one he never did. It shares the clarity he's exhibited since the start of his career, a perspective aged by the streets he was raised on. There are no solutions here, no grand epiphany. His home just no longer provides the same comfort that it once did ... It might not meet the extremely high bar set by his best work, but it's almost certainly him at his most emotionally vulnerable".

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"Emphasising Staples' versatility, 'Ramona Park Broke My Heart' continues the revival of hip-hop's golden age (...). The production is clean and the rhymes imaginative as the artist digs deeper than ever before".

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