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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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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'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
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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'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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When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.
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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'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.
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That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.
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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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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 like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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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 definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'
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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've always been able to defend Kanye.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
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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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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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The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
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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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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.