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The police are very mean people sometimes.

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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
Police
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People

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I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that.
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Every song with lyrics is lyrical.
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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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We're all equally important at the end of the day.
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I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.
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I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.
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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 don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.
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I wouldn't say I fear the future.
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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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The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.
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I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans tree niggers, and that is not cool.
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Things don't really go that well when people get back together.
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I don't really have a focus, I just make music.
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You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.
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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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I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.
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I don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.
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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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People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.
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