Vince Staples celebrates the here and now in his NPR Tiny Desk (Home) concert

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Vince Staples‘ enchanting take on NPR’s long-running Tiny Desk series has made it to the Internet, sporting a handful of choice cuts from the rapper’s newly minted fourth album.

The set was recorded, as the series has been since the COVID-19 pandemic broke, from outside the series’ usual home of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen’s desk at NPR’s Washington office. Instead, Staples and his four-piece backing band took to an idyllic cabin in the Hollywood Hills.

“You should see this view – I don’t live here,” the 28-year-old boasts midway through his four-track performance. “I would never live here.”

In the set, Staples belted out a series of tracks from his self-titled fourth album, kicking off with lead single ‘Law Of Averages’ and wrapping with the Fousheé collab ‘Take Me Home’ – for which the fellow Harlem trailblazer made an in-person appearance.

Staples’ new album hit streaming earlier this month via Blacksmith/Motown. In addition to ‘Law Of Averages’, it features the striking cut ‘Are You With That?’, initially shared as a single two days before the album’s release and followed shortly after with an equally cinematic and polarising film clip.

NME gave the album a four-star review, calling it “a refreshing ten-track LP that perfectly illustrates who [Staples] truly is as an artist, and (hopefully) a star”.

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