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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 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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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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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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The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
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The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
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I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.
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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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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.
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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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I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.
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I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.
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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'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
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One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.
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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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There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.
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I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.
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'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
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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 don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.
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There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.
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I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
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I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.
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