Vince StaplesBest Vince Staples Albums Ranked

Big Fish Theory

nme

10

“While it’s a touch reductive to lump them both together, parallels between the careers of Vince Staples and fellow Californian Kendrick Lamar are uncanny and numerous. Both have found success despite swimming against the musical flow, performing dense, politically charged lyrics in an era more enamoured with the simplistic sing-song decadence of Migos, Rae Sremmurd and Lil Yachty. Both have cultiv”

Dark Times

thelineofbestfit

9.0

“Vince Staples’ Dark Times is a raw emotive portrait of the artist’s scars”

Summertime '06

pitchfork

8.8

“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.”

Big Fish Theory

pitchfork

8.7

“On his second album, Vince Staples teams with producers like SOPHIE, Jimmy Edgar, and Flume on a collection of sleek club-rap bangers. But his eye for detail and observational skills remain intact.”

Vince Staples

pastemagazine

8.2

“The Long Beach rapper’s highly anticipated second collaboration with Kenny Beats is a powerful lo-fi portrait of survival”

FM!

pitchfork

8.2

“On Vince Staples’ third album, the California rapper keeps it short and not so sweet.”

Big Fish Theory

Liquify05

9.0

“My friend showed me this and I was like yeah this is pretty good, follow up recently and I decided to give it another try and I realized how much I genuinely love this album, from the wacky production to the killer flows by Vince it’s just a good hip hop album”

Big Fish Theory

funnyguppygaming

7.9

“Really cool project with a really cool overall sound Big Fish and BagBak were stand outs.”