Vince Staples Quotes

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.

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

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.

Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.

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.

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

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

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

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

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.

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.

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.

Everybody deserves a right to be happy.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.

My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them.

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

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.

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

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.

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.

Things don't really go that well when people get back together.

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.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

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.

I feel like it's impossible to be completely yourself, because you'll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

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.

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.