118 Quotes by vince staples

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.

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.

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.

Where I come from, there’s no common enemy, there’s no “why.” There’s no, “I hate white people.”

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 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.

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.

I think there’s too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop.

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