Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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.
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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 want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.
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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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Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
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I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.
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I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
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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 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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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'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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I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.
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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'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.
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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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I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
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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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My parents always wanted me to go to college.
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I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships.
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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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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.
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I am scared of death.