Chance The Rapper Quotes

Chance The Rapper

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 16, 1993

I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'

Chance The Rapper

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

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Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

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I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

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Selling music doesn't make that much money.

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I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

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Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

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I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

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Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.

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I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

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'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.

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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

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I am scared of death.

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I don't think I ever wanted to be like Kanye in personality. I think I definitely want to, have always wanted to, have his boldness or assurance in myself.

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When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

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I don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind of - I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.

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If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.

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I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.

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Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

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I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

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