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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
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Long Beach
California
Vincent Jamal Staples
Vincent Staples
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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 saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans tree niggers, and that is not cool.
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If you hit a kangaroo in the street and you have to pull out on the side of the road, it can get back up and murder you.
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I usually just have ideas when I have them.
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If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.
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So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations.
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When people ask me my influences and I'm like, nobody they're like, there has to be somebody. People seem to think you have to have an influence.
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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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Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.
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I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.
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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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Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.
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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.
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I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.
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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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All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.
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Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.
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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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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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Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.
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