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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
Singer
Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
Vincent Staples
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We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.
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I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.
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People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.
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We're all equally important at the end of the day.
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I usually just have ideas when I have them.
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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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It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
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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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