Vince Staples – Dedicated to his “number one fan

dedicated to his “number one fan,” his own younger self, fm! is built around the familiar staples theme of summertime nostalgia it’s cleverly held together by a running motif of interludes borrowed straight from terrestrial radio popular la-area radio host big boy of the long-running morning show “big boy’s neighborhood” ties everything together with sketches yanked straight from his own drive-time slot the power 106 host is as familiar to locals as staples’ summertime 06 disaster funk and big fish theory‘s menacing electronica is foreign to the domestic radio format big boy might never get caught blasting the five-alarm sirens of “blue suede” or the doom-and-gloomy “senorita,” but that’s w kenny beats, hagler, cubeatz, and killagraham step in to endow fm! with a sound that may be foreign to vince’s past work, but instantly engaging to anyone who’d tune in to “big boy’s neighborhood” for the latest “phone tap” sketch as they battled traffic on the 91 freeway dedicated to his “number one fan,” his own younger self, fm! is built around the familiar staples theme of summertime nostalgia