Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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 didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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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 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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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 think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
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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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The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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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 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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I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.
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My parents are super cheap.
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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
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I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
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I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.
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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.
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Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.
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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?'
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I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.