Chance The Rapper Quotes
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I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'
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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 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'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.
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My parents always wanted me to go to college.
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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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Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.
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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 don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.
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I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
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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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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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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 like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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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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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 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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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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I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free.
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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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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!