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When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.

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Vince Staples
Age: 31
Born: 1993
Born: July 2
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We still wading in the water... Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father, Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver. Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler, Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.
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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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