Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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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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, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
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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 didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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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 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 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'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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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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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 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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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.
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My parents are super cheap.
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I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.
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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 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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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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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 want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.
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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.