Vince Staples Quotes
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We're all equally important at the end of the day.
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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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School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily following directions helps you get certain places - because you go to the right school you can learn the right things, and you go to the wrong school you can learn the wrong things, so it just all depends. But school doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.
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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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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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If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.
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I wouldn't say I fear the future.
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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 don't have a message. You already have all these people telling you how to live, who to be, what to wear, what to drive, what drugs to do - I just want people to see what I see.
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Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.
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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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When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.
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Every song with lyrics is lyrical.
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The police are very mean people sometimes.
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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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Things don't really go that well when people get back together.
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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. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.
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I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really.
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I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.
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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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There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.
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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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I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.
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I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
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When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.
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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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I was never like, "Oh man, I want a Grammy and I'll do whatever it takes". Someone like that might not do what it takes to have a decent touring career, because they're in the studio trying to master whatever they're doing to win a Grammy.
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I've heard a lot of crack stories. I heard a RZA crack story, up close and personal, over a platter of 100 chicken wings that only him and his friend ate. It was a good day.
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I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.
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A lot of music comes from a selfish place.
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