Summertime '06 (Segment 2)

Vinyl release containing the 10 tracks making up "Segment 2" (Disc 2) of Summertime '06. A single LP, packaged in a gatefold jacket, and contains two-sided artwork insert and credits insert.

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.

The heavy-lidded, preternaturally calm Long Beach rapper has always seemed to have a remarkable amount on his mind, with more to say than he has room for: The last line on "Taxi", the final track of his first full mixtape, 2011’s Shyne Coldchain Vol. 1, ended in a similar fashion, with a freezing bucket of water—"Tried praying for forgiveness, but God told me to shut up"—before the music simply stopped. In those days, Staples seemed studiously laconic, like his friend Earl Sweatshirt, whom he is still often mentioned alongside. What’s been remarkable to watch is the way Staples has leaned forward—bigger songs, bigger statements, greater urgency–as Earl bled into the cracks in the walls of his mind. Earl doesn’t know or care if you are in the room, which is part of his appeal; Vince Staples’ eyes are boring right into you.

Tracklist

1 Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2
2 3230
3 Surf Feat. Kilo Kish
4 Might Be Wrong Feat. Haneef Talib Aka Genno & Eeeeeeee
5 Get Paid Feat. Desi Mo
6 Street Punks
7 Hang N Bang Feat. A$Ton Matthews
8 C.N.B
9 Like It Is
10 06