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If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Vince Staples

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Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
Rapper
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Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
Vincent Staples
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Things don't really go that well when people get back together.
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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 wouldn't say I fear the future.
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I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.
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I usually just have ideas when I have them.
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I don't really have a focus, I just make music.
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Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.
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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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Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.
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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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Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.
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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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Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars.
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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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Every song with lyrics is lyrical.
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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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I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.
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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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