Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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 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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I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.
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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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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 feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
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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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I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.
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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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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 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 didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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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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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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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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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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My parents are super cheap.
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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 think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
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I am scared of death.
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I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.
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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 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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My parents always wanted me to go to college.