Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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 don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind of - I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.
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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 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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When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
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I am scared of death.
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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'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
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I just get sick very easily.
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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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My parents are super cheap.
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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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I've always been able to defend Kanye.
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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'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
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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.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.
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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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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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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 hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.