Chance The Rapper Quotes

Chance The Rapper

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 16, 1993

I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.

Chance The Rapper

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'

Chance The Rapper

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

Chance The Rapper

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

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I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

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I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.

Chance The Rapper

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

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I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

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Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

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I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

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My parents always wanted me to go to college.

Chance The Rapper

I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

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I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.

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There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

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I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.

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I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.

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There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart.

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People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

Chance The Rapper