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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
Record Producer
Singer
Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
Vincent Staples
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Went
Community
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When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.
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When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.
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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 don't really have a focus, I just make music.
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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 wouldn't say I fear the future.
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Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.
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If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.
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Things don't really go that well when people get back together.
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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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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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There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.
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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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All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.
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As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
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I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.
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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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When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.
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