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We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.

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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
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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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When I was a kid if you didn't have Lil in front of your name, you were trash.
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