ALBUM COVER DESIGN
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Vince Staples
Summertime '06
'Summer of 2006, the beginning of the end of everything I thought I knew. Youth was stolen from my city that summer, and I’m left alone to tell the story. This might not make sense, but that’s because none of it does, we’re stuck.' — Vince Staples’ deleted Instagram post (2015)
'By now, it’s clear that Summertime is not "fun," and at no point do you suspect you’ve been invited to a party. But the sound submerges you in the itch of Staples' mind. He is a devotee of realism, in its simplest definition. Keeping it real, for him, means clearly documenting everything he sees, removed from the clouds of hope or pain or pity.' — Pitchfork (2015)
