Chance The Rapper Quotes

Chance The Rapper

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 16, 1993

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

Chance The Rapper

One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'

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With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.

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I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.

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I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

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I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

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I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

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I've always been able to defend Kanye.

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I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.

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I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

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I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.

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I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.

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I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

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I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

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Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

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People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

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For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

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I just get sick very easily.

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I'm lucky to be in a space where I've been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.

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