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There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.

Vince Staples

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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
Everything
People
Tag
Price
Including
Lives
Black

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I think the opinion is worth less now than it ever has been.
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Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no why. There's no, I hate white people.
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We're all equally important at the end of the day.
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Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.
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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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Drugs are horrible I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.
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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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