Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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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Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
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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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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 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'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 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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I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.
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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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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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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 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 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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My parents always wanted me to go to college.
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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'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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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'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 didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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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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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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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 want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.
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I am scared of death.