This fall, Vince Staples will hit the road. The Long Beach native’s Black In America Tour will begin in Atlanta, Georgia on October 14, 2024. With Baby Rose joining him on select dates, Vince Staples will then take the tour to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Vince Staples’s Black In America Tour will continue the California native’s evolution in entertainment. Not only did he earn a recurring role on Quinta Brunson’s Abbott Elementary, but he also debuted his own show on Netflix. Months after The Vince Staples Show hit the streaming platform, the series earned a second season at Netflix and he unleashed his latest LP, Dark Times.
Released May 24, Dark Times is a solo venture with production from Jay Versace and Cardo among others. The 13-track collection has garnered positive reviews from critics and fans alike.
“His recent albums have been similarly firewalled, open about Vince Staples the artist but mum about Vince Staples the man. Dark Times seems to want, at long last, to draw these worlds closer together. It is deeply considered in its approach, thinking hard about a community product’s obligation to community preservation,” Sheldon Pearce of NPR wrote about the album.
“Dark Times, a project that trades in his steely gaze for spurts of surprisingly bleary-eyed reflection. Here, sarcasm recedes into world-weary malaise and a search for hope. Vince is going through it, and he’s got no problem letting you know it on the most vulnerable LP of his career,” Variety‘s Peter A. Berry adds.
The release of Dark Times also fulfills his obligations under Def Jam, allowing him to move forward with television, music and potentially film independently.
