Ramona Park Broke My Heart

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Ramona Park Broke My Heart
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Studio album by
Vince Staples
ReleasedApril 8, 2022
Genre West Coast hip hop [1]
Length41:02
Label
Producer
  • Brazzen
  • Coop the Truth
  • DJ Dahi
  • Frano
  • Johnny Juliano
  • Jonas
  • Kenny Beats
  • LBambino
  • LeKen Taylor
  • Mike Hector
  • Mingo
  • Mustard
  • Nami
  • Paul Castelluzzo
  • Reske
  • Saint Mino
  • Tommy Parker
  • Yori
  • Zack Sekoff
Vince Staples chronology
Vince Staples
(2021)		Ramona Park Broke My Heart
(2022)
Singles from Ramona Park Broke My Heart
  1. "Magic"
    Released: February 14, 2022
  2. "Rose Street"
    Released: March 28, 2022

Ramona Park Broke My Heart (stylized in all caps) is the fifth studio album by American rapper Vince Staples, released April 8, 2022, through Motown Records and Blacksmith Records. The album was executive produced by Corey "Blacksmith" Smyth, Ethiopia Habtemariam, Michael Uzowuru, and Vince Staples himself.

Contents

Background and promotion

Ramona Park Broke My Heart is named after Ramona Park, the neighborhood of Long Beach, California where Staples grew up. [2] [3] The album's first single, "Magic", was released on February 14, 2022, [4] with an accompanying music video following on March 7. [5] The album's second single, "Rose Street", was released on March 28. [6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.8/10 [7]
Metacritic 82/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Beats Per Minute 80% [10]
Clash 9/10 [11]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Exclaim! 9/10 [13]
Gigwise 9/10 [14]
HipHopDX 4.0/5 [15]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [16]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [17]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [18]

Ramona Park Broke My Heart was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 10 reviews. [8] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. [7]

Robin Murray from Clash enjoyed the album, saying, "A brave record that asks awkward questions both of its maker and his audience, Ramona Park Broke My Heart is a document of personal evolution and what its possible to bring along with you". [11] Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Fred Thomas stated, "Staples goes even deeper into memory and self-reflection on Ramona Park Broke My Heart, presenting his pain, glory, and contradictory emotions in sharper definition while turning in some of his most engaging music to date". [9] Matthew Ismael Ruiz of Pitchfork said, "The companion piece to his 2021 self-titled record diverges from the innovation and technical proficiency in favor of introspection and contemplation. It is a richly detailed, deadpan elegy for his stolen youth". [17] Beats Per Minute critic Marc Griffin said, "Ramona Park Broke My Heart is an illusion; Vince Staples' latest LP finds him making far more ear-catching music than his previous effort, but the infectious beats and choruses are merely a facade". [10] Wesley McLean of Exclaim! praised the album, stating, "It's a near-perfect encapsulation of every enticing aspect of his previous work, wrapped into one project". [13] Writing for NME , Kyann-Sian Williams stated, "The production is clean, the rhymes imaginative and the rapper digs deeper than ever before. Yes, Vince Staples was a beautifully personal reflection from start to finish, but Ramona Park… deepens the listener's relationship with the rapper". [16]

Karl Blakesley of Gigwise said, "This is easily Vince's strongest and most ambitious work since Big Fish Theory . An album that sounds great, but also offers an intricately crafted and at times brutally honest portrait of his hometown, highlighting the maze of social traps from which he was lucky enough to escape". [14] In a positive review, Spectrum Culture's Aaron Paskin said, "Tragic accounts of violence surround a guarded Vince Staples, who raps not proudly but unapologetically about his dedication to the hustle, his anxiety, and ultimately his inability to love, all stemming from his tumultuous upbringing in Long Beach". [19]

Year-end lists

Select year-end rankings of Ramona Park Broke My Heart
Critic/publicationListRankRef.
Clash Albums of the Year 2022
5
Complex The Best Albums of 2022
5
The Fader The 50 Best Albums of 2022
37
Mondo Sonoro Los 50 mejores discos internacionales de 2022
20
Okayplayer Okayplayer's 22 Best Albums of 2022
4
The Ringer The 33 Best Albums of 2022
33
Rolling Stone The 100 Best Albums of 2022
19
Rob Sheffield's Top 20 Albums of 2022
13
Vulture The Best Albums of 2022
2
Wired The 12 Best Albums of 2022
2

Track listing

Ramona Park Broke My Heart track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."The Beach"
Mingo1:07
2."Aye! (Free the Homies)"
  • Staples
  • Sean Matsukawa
  • Zack Sekoff
  • LeKen Taylor
Taylor3:05
3."DJ Quik"
2:20
4."Magic" (featuring Mustard)
3:46
5."Nameless"
  • Staples
  • Dylan Wiggins
  • Grace Alfaro
Brazzen0:48
6."When Sparks Fly"
  • Staples
  • Shahrooz Raoofi
  • Frano Huett
  • Francesca Bergami
  • Atupele Ndisale
Frano3:47
7."East Point Prayer" (featuring Lil Baby)
3:37
8."Slide"
  • Staples
  • Hebrew Malachai Richardson
  • Taylor
  • Mike Hector
  • Sekoff
  • Hector
  • Sekoff
2:18
9."Papercuts"
  • Staples
  • Natche
  • Paul Castelluzzo
  • DJ Dahi
  • Castelluzzo
3:01
10."Lemonade" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign)
  • Taylor
  • Yori
  • Joey Ram [a]
  • Matsukawa [a]
2:59
11."Player Ways"
  • Jonas
  • LBambino
  • Saint Mino
3:28
12."Mama's Boy"
  • Staples
  • McGill
  • Teixeira
  • Coop the Truth
  • Nami
2:19
13."Bang That" (featuring Mustard)
2:39
14."The Spirit of Monster Kody"
  • Staples
  • Drerup
  • Thomas Westly Lumpkins
  • Saint Mino
  • Tommy Parker
0:45
15."Rose Street"
  • Staples
  • Drerup
  • Lumpkins
  • Saint Mino
  • Parker
2:33
16."The Blues"
  • Staples
  • Dominguez
Mingo2:22
Total length:41:02

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [30]

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Ramona Park Broke My Heart
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [31] 99
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA) [32] 30
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [33] 193
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [34] 44
US Billboard 200 [35] 21
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [36] 10

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