FM!
Vince Staples
2018
What Staples has created in FM! is his most deceptively simple concept album yet – a meta-gangsta reflection on the popular consumption of black nihilism as peak entertainment and is presented as a local radio show.
According to NPR Music staff writer Rodney Carmichael, “FM! uses terrestrial radio — and longtime L.A. radio staple Big Boy’s morning show — as a foil to offer subversive commentary on the ways and means black music is marketed for mass consumption.
Even the features — Cali artists including Kamaiyah, E-40, Buddy, Kehlani and two diametrically opposed interludes from Earl Sweatshirt and Tyga — present a range of extremes that deconstruct the static separating radio and Internet, alternative and pop.
Stand-Out Tracks
FUN!
No Bleedin
Don’t Get Chipped
