Vince Staples' 'Blackberry Marmalade': Independent Debut

0:00It's April 26th. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is Music News Today. Music News Powered by AI. Vince Staples just dropped the music video for Blackberry Marmalade, and it's straight fire in a first-person shooter style. The camera grabs a gun in a parking lot. Target Staples who tries but fails to stop it, then storms a diner for a staged mass shooting. It wraps with a twist on extremism, pulling from Martin Luther King Jr. But at the start, a red-cry baby hat sits on the dashboard of Staples' car, embroidered with a date that's got fans buzzing about a possible upcoming, Reliefice. It's been two years since his last album, Dark Times, from 2024, which was his final project with Def Jam. That makes Blackberry Marmalade his debut single as an independent artist. Staples hasn't stayed silent, though. He jumped on JPEGMIFI as New Black History, from my lay down my life for you, and JIDS VCR's off god does like ugly. Meanwhile, season 2 of the Vince Staples show aired on Netflix last fall, only to get

1:03canceled come January. All this show's Staples flipping rap stardom stress into bold moves, from comedy to these edgy visuals, I stay glued for his next independent, chapter.