Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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 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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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 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 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 didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.
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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 am scared of death.
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The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
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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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I just get sick very easily.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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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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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.
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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.
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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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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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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.
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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.