“Black music means everything to me because I’m Black,” Vince Staples says. The Motown-by-way-of-Southern California rapper, singer, actor, and host of Beats 1’s RAMONA RADIO has never been shy about his affiliations, nor the ways they inform his art. For Black Music Month 2019, Staples created an exclusive playlist of Motown hits to celebrate the label’s place in history. “Motown is the face and soul of Black music—light skin to dark skin, bougie to broke,” he says. “This playlist covers every shade of Black in just a few tracks. Shoutout El DeBarge and shoutout the City Girls.”