Chance The Rapper Quotes
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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'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
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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 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 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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The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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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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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 am scared of death.
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I just get sick very easily.
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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 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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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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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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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've always been able to defend Kanye.
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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 hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.
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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 think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.