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School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

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Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
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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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I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.
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I live to die better that than to live a lie.
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When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.
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Drugs are horrible I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.
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People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.
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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 hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.
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I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.
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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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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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