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Hell Can Wait
Hip-Hop · 2014 · 7 tracks · 23m

Hell Can Wait

Vince Staples

Aggressive, skeletal beats meeting cold-eyed street journalism. A claustrophobic portrait of Long Beach that trades West Coast warmth for industrial tension.

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It's the most stressful, brilliant twenty-four minutes of rap you'll hear all year.

A relentless, cold-eyed stare into the heart of urban tension and systemic pressure.

Hell Can Wait · vs · Vince Staples
Tense+1.8σ

Tense saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 7 Tracks · 23m
01
Fire
2:17
02
65 Hunnid
3:06
03
Screen Door
4:07
04
Hands Up
3:20
05
Blue Suede
3:38
06
Limos
3:32
07
Feelin’ the Love
3:30
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring, siren-like synth lead on Blue Suede that feels like a physical warning
The rhythmic, heavy breathing that anchors the beat on Screen Door
The sudden, aggressive drop of the percussion on Hands Up that mirrors the tension of a police encounter
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