Vince Staples has shared the visible for his newest single, ‘Are You With That?’, wherein he’s pursued in the course of a suburban avenue.
Check out the video, directed by Jack Begert, beneath:
‘Are You With That?’ serves because the opening monitor on Staples’ self-titled fourth album, which was launched final Friday (July 9) by way of Blacksmith/Motown. It was initially shared as a single two days earlier than the album’s launch, following lead single ‘Legislation Of Averages’ in June.
NME gave the brand new album a four-star overview, with author Kyann-Sian Williams calling it “a refreshing ten-track LP that completely illustrates who [Staples] really is as an artist, and (hopefully) a star”.
Staples has teased that he’ll observe up his self-titled LP with a second album in 2021, tentatively titled ‘Ramona Park Broke My Coronary heart’, in addition to a at the moment untitled TV sequence certain for Netflix. In December, he’ll make his debut as a graphic novelist with the publication of his e book Limbo Seaside.
Elsewhere in 2021, Staples has been on a collaborative hot-streak, teaming up with the likes of Pusha-T (for the monitor ‘Jungle Mantra’), Lil Yachty (for ‘In My Stussy’s’) and Emotional Oranges (for ‘Again & Forth’).
Earlier this month, the rapper spoke about how the music trade “monetises folks’s struggles”, and the way that impacts the picture rappers attempt to promote.
“It is a enterprise the place we monetise folks’s struggles, ache, dying and homicide,” he mentioned.