Let’s close this holiday weekend with a slow nightmare of a track.

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Iain Mew: Vince Staples rattles through the bleak verses like someone who can’t afford the time to do anything else, stuck in the moment as he suggests. The hook gets piled in even quicker and squeezes the gaps still further, yet after all that speed a third of the track is given over to the slow nightmare of the breakdown. It’s suggestive of consequences with equal weight to actions, and it’s haunting.
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Nina Lea Oishi: “Senorita” is an unsettling track, and Vince Staples knows it. It opens with a sample from Future’s “Covered N Money,” a track celebrating the rapper’s wealth. But “Senorita” is far less celebratory. it’s eerie, those tinkling piano keys straight out of a horror movie. Staples has the wealth, bragging on his pricey features, but he’s not basking in his cash. “Either go hunt or be hunted,” he warns. the world depicted in the track and the video is dystopian, shredded by violence. Staples claims he can’t be fucked with, like the man in the video holding up the Bible emblazoned with his initials, but you get the sense he’s actually terrified, as much prey as predator, reaching the end of the road only to find himself trapped behind glass. And we are the family watching the screen at the end of the video, compelled to watch, complicit.
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Alfred Soto: Ignore the fading Future and concentrate on Staples. It takes a while: a nasal timbre with hints of a snarl. Then it becomes clear that each verse ends with a death, and Staples himself is swallowed by a wave of distortion and mix board frippery.
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Brad Shoup: Vince is good, and studied, and comes off like secondhand shine. Future still comes off the best, which is good for the balance.
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Micha Cavaseno: These days Vince Staples records are like a One-Armed Bandit: you hope one day, the bars, the beat, and the hook are going to match. The Future hook here is a cherry, the Vince Bars are in fact that BAR symbol thingy, but this beat is a goose egg.
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Ramzi Awn: Staples sells “Senorita” well, and the last minute on the track slays.
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