Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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My parents are super cheap.
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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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The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.
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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 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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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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If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.
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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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I always wanted to be more of a person that people enjoy. Somebody that will make you laugh. I'm talking about just my personality, not necessarily how my music sounds.