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BROCKHAMPTON's "STAINS" Is a Self-Aware, Genre-Smashing Good Time

The latest jam for you to get hyped for 'Saturation III' coming out tonight.
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Brockhampton, the un-gunere-bound collective/boy band introduced to the world through Kevin Abstract, are gearing up to close out the year with Saturation III, their second release in several months and now confirmed non-final-album. We've already heard the rampaging "BOOGIE," and now they're sharing "STAINS," which was played on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show earlier today.

The song combines early-00s pop-rap production with an abrupt shift into strobelit dance-pop at the end. It also features Brockhampton's videographer Ashlan Gray performing a skit that's a tongue-in-cheek criticism of the group: "Y'all motherfuckers made three albums still talking about the same shit; the one gay, the one selling drugs, the one that's tryna act like Lil Wayne… What the fuck is this shit, man?" The song's boasts prove that "talking about the same shit" is working. Stream "STAINS" below.