Vince Staples
If you try to make music and try to convey to everyone that everything is all peachy-keen, you might come off like you're full of it, and that could be something that draws listeners away.Collection: Trying
When you have this job [as an entertainer] you're suddenly not a person anymore.Collection: Jobs
I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Artist
Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.Collection: Kids
I don't really have a focus, I just make music.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: Winning
When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.Collection: Children
Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Mom
I don't think I've ever been personally fulfilled performing. It's kind of a challenging thing; it's more of a sacrifice for the people that I love.Collection: Sacrifice
If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.Collection: Children
Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.Collection: Drug
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.Collection: Good Day
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.Collection: President
Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Writing
School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.Collection: School
A lot of music comes from a selfish place.Collection: Selfish
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.Collection: Brother
Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.Collection: Lying
Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."Collection: Hate
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.Collection: People
I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.Collection: Differences
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.Collection: Connections
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Children
The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.Collection: People
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.Collection: People
Everybody deserves a right to be happy.Collection: Deserve
That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.Collection: Humanity
When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: California
We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.Collection: People
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.Collection: Kids
I'm just saying what I think about at the time. I don't make a point to do anything, really.Collection: Thinking
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.Collection: Native American
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Kangaroos
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Personal Knowledge
I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Distance
Sprite really does taste different everywhere! That's like a fact. Because of certain regulations, you can only put so many sugars.Collection: Doe
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.Collection: Couple
We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Thinking
I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since.Collection: Remember
If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.Collection: Mean