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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.
Vince Staples
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Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
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Vincent Jamal Staples
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