Vince Staples
Vince Staples
Vince Staplesis an American rapper from Long Beach, California. He is one-third of the hip hop group Cutthroat Boyz, alongside fellow California rappers Joey Fatts and Aston Matthews. Staples was also known as a close associate of Odd Future, in particular Mike G and Earl Sweatshirt. Staples is currently signed to Blacksmith Records, ARTium Recordings and Def Jam Recordings. He came to prominence with his appearances on albums by Odd Future members and his collaborative mixtape titled Stolen Youth, with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth2 July 1993
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.
I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.
That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.
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.
When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.
I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.
That's the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.
Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.
Everyone serves a purpose.
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.
As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
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.
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.
One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.