American - Musician | April 16, 1993 -
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.
Chance The Rapper
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.
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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.'
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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 don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.
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I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
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