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I live to die better that than to live a lie.

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Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
Vincent Staples
Live
Dies
Lying
Better

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I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.
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I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.
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One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, Bail him out, and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thi
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There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.
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I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.
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I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.
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I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
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The police are very mean people sometimes.
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I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists - I haven't met a lot of 'em.
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Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no why. There's no, I hate white people.
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When people ask me my influences and I'm like, nobody they're like, there has to be somebody. People seem to think you have to have an influence.
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Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.
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I think the opinion is worth less now than it ever has been.
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School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.
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We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.
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People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.
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I hate when I lose my voice and then people try and talk to me and I seem like I'm being rude and then I hurt their feelings. That sucks.
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I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored you have to push your own limits.
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Everyone serves a purpose.
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I was never like, Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes. Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.
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