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Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt; nefas est.
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Trauma has left its mark on Vince Staples. "You can ask anybody that knows me—I hate when it's loud around me," he intones [in an interview with Noisey][interview]. "I grew up in a very loud place. I heard a lot of ambulances, a lot of helicopters, a lot of gunshots that never made it to the news [...] Niggas who know me like 'Vince, you don't have fun!' I'm like 'Nah, I don't have time for that.'" Summertime '06, Staples's major-label debut, is a record of trauma -- Staples plays the role of war correspondent, grimly chronicling the violence endemic to his hometown of Long Beach. It is an extraordinary record, among the best rap debuts in decades, both jeremiad and paean to lost innocence.
Staples's rise to fame has been slow: his early-2010s features with Odd Future brought him critical acclaim, as Vince is one of the few whose verbal and poetic talents matched (and sometimes exceeded) OF's lyrical-genius-in-residence Earl Sweatshirt. It took some