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The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

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Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
Rapper
Record Producer
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Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
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I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.
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If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.
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The police are very mean people sometimes.
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We still wading in the water... Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father, Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver. Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler, Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.
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So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.
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I wouldn't say I fear the future.
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I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
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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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That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.
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A lot of music comes from a selfish place.
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If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.
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Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.
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Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.
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I don't really have a focus, I just make music.
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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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I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.
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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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Everyone serves a purpose.
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The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.
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When I was a kid if you didn't have Lil in front of your name, you were trash.
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