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That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

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
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I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.
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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.
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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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Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.
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Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.
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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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When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.
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I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.
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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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I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists - I haven't met a lot of 'em.
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I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.
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People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.
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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 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 don't really have a focus, I just make music.
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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.
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I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.
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Everybody deserves a right to be happy.
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There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.
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I've had a lot of people online say they're going to kill me at my shows. A lot of people say they're going to punch me in the face - never happened. It's just people being sad because their life sucks.
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