‘Cry Baby’ by Vince Staples★★★★“Cry Baby is a cry for revolution, a challenge to do better,” said Kiana Fitzgerald in Consequence of Sound. A “brash, guitar-led” album from “one of the most adept rappers we have,” the record finds Vince Staples “aiming his ire at the long-established American way.” On the “tense” lead single, “Blackberry Marmalade,” he delivers a “brutal but necessary” repetition of the N-word while juxtaposing the wisdom of his…
The singer and multi-instrumentalist from Washington resurrects the music of the sixties while instilling a current resonance in his new hymn to love. Magnetic.