Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
Vincent Staples
Good
People
Necessarily
Whenever
Gonna
Control
Power
Thing
Trying

More quotes by Vince Staples

Image
If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.
Vince Staples
Image
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!
Vince Staples
Image
I usually just have ideas when I have them.
Vince Staples
Image
I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
Vince Staples
Image
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.
Vince Staples
Image
My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.
Vince Staples
Image
We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.
Vince Staples
Image
School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.
Vince Staples
Image
I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.
Vince Staples
Image
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. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.
Vince Staples
Image
As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
Vince Staples
Image
I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really.
Vince Staples
Image
When I was a kid if you didn't have Lil in front of your name, you were trash.
Vince Staples
Image
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.
Vince Staples
Image
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.
Vince Staples
Image
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.
Vince Staples
Image
We have bad things happen, but it's not like Syria, which we ignore and pretend doesn't happen. We've got it pretty good, no matter who the president is, to be honest.
Vince Staples
Image
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.
Vince Staples
Image
There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.
Vince Staples
Image
Everyone serves a purpose.
Vince Staples