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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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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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Every song with lyrics is lyrical.
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I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.
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I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.
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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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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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Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.
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When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.
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I don't really have a focus, I just make music.
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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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I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.
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Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.
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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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As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
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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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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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Everybody deserves a right to be happy.
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Things don't really go that well when people get back together.
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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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I usually just have ideas when I have them.
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