Chance The Rapper Quotes
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'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
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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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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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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 think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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My parents always wanted me to go to college.
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The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
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I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
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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'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
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There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
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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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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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I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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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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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 am scared of death.
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I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.
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I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
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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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I just get sick very easily.
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When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.
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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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Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.