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Vince Staples' 'Dark Times' album has arrived. Stream it now.

Vince Staples' new album, Ramona Park Broke My Heart, is now available via Blacksmith Recordings / Motown Records.

          Vince Staples today debuted the latest single and visual for “Rose Street,” off his forthcoming album Ramona Park Broke My Heart out April 8 via Blacksmith Recordings / Motown Records. Directed by Staples and C.

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It's the first single from his new album 'Ramona Park Broke My Heart'.

Management vet Cortez Bryant co-founds new online teaching platform.

Vince Staples appears on 'The Tonight Show' to perform his recent song "Take Me Home."

Image Credit: Video Still Today, Vince Staples released the official music video for “ARE YOU WITH THAT?” off his new self-titled album out now via Blacksmith Recordings / Motown Records. The video for the “moody slow jam” (Rolling Stone) – also described by NPR as a “somber summer anthem for Staples’ hometown of North Long Beach” – was directed by Jack Begert (Doja Cat, ScHoolboy Q), and is available to watch HERE. Stre...

April 27th, 2021 in Featured. Closed Ethiopia Habtemariam says she’s ready to use her newfound autonomy [as chairman/CEO of Motown Records] to fully execute the vision she had for Motown when she arrived. She has spent the last several months staffing up, and, she says, “creating a blueprint” for the label’s future as a global force in recorded music. (Billboard magazine) Billboard Motown’s Ethiopia Habtemariam Is Ready to Fully Execute Her Vision: ‘Stay Tuned Wh...

Since overseeing Motown’s move from New York to Los Angeles as the label’s president in 2014, Habtemariam, 41, has led entrepreneurial ventures such as the label’s 2015 alliance with Atlanta-based Quality Control, which has yielded hits by Lil Baby, Lil Yachty, Migos, City Girls and Layton Greene. Motown is also home to Blacksmith Recordings (Ted When, Vince Staples) and Since the 1980s (Asiahn, Njomza) as well as Erykah Badu, Kem, Tiana Major9 and Nigerian star Tiwa Savage. During Habtem...