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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.
- Dope
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.
- Michael Jackson
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
- Diction
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Complete Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there's just a certain love that you don't feel anywhere else; it's like home base.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
- Detect
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter, when she was still in utero, she had, they call it atrial flutters. It's kind of like an irregular heartbeat. But when you're in utero, it's real hard to detect and also to treat.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song on '10 Day' is a completely different sound - the cadence, the flow, even the production - because I like so many different types of music and because my taste is so refined. 'Acid Rap' is another tape where every song sounds different.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are super cheap.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always wanted me to go to college.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had already been making music for my whole high school life, and '10 Day,' which took me a whole year to finish, was about working with a lot of different producers and learning all of the aspects about being a rapper, from shows to recording to studio etiquette to marketing.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to defend Kanye.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go broke a lot... I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what's right, it's going to be rewarding, you know?
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I ever wanted to be like Kanye in personality. I think I definitely want to, have always wanted to, have his boldness or assurance in myself.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just get sick very easily.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can love somebody through anything when they're your child, and now that I understand that, it makes me work better with people; it makes me more understanding of how much dedication and love I can put into each line. There's no throwaway lines.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a point where I just did not care about my body.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
- Dude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been conditioned to understand music as a field where you get discovered, and you're always trying to find that end. So 'my shot' is speaking of a variety of shots. When you're a rapper, you look at every shot as the one you're supposed to take.
- Catalog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020