Following a handful of mixtapes and an EP, Vince Staples finally released his debut album Summertime ’06 a year ago to this month. Now, he’s gearing up to drop another new project called Prima Donna.
The news has been revealed in his cover of The FADER, which has just gone live today. In the piece, Jeff Weiss talks about hearing the EP inside Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, and the fact that James Blake and DJ Dahi have production on it:
That evening, as we listen to songs from Staples’s forthcoming Prima Donna EP, the sturdy insulated walls at Hollywood’s Record Plant Studios shake so hard that you envision the platinum plaques falling to the ground. The eyes of the ultra-professional engineers give the “great googly moogly” bulge. Even though this isn’t their first time hearing the EP, they tell Staples they haven’t heard anything like this before. It’s the truth, not idle flattery. With production from James Blake and DJ Dahi, the six-song set starts with a rap star killing himself and concludes with him first coming to fame. You’re meant to be able to play it front-to-back or back-to-front. Either way, it’s a chaotic fusion of warped soul, distorted hooks, and extraterrestrial demonic spirituals. The tentative release date is sometime this summer.
Let’s hope the release is closer to the start of summer than the end. Read the entire cover story HERE.
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