Top 70 Chance The Rapper Quotes

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.

I think I always knew I wasn’t gonna have a regular job.

I think it’s very important for America that we’re represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

I can’t see myself ever having somebody say something about me on a song and me being like, ‘All right, now I’m about to say something about them on a song.’

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.

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.

If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure are what make revolutions.

I love theater, and I’ve always been a huge movie buff.

I’m a patriarch now. I’ve got to go get the bread.

I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

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.

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.

I’m a good man, and I’m gonna become a better man.

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!

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye – let’s say 53 percent of working with Kanye – is speeches.

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

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.

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.

I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

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.

There was a point where I just did not care about my body.

Colorism and racism don’t stop when you’re a musician or when you have wealth or when you’re in any given position.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

Taylor Swift is just dope. She is an ill songwriter.

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.

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.

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.

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.

Fame or perceived success – it all comes from groupthink.

I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he’s also a community person.

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.

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?

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative – thinking of it and then expounding on it.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

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.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

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.

Depending on the story that you’re telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody’s story.

If I was to buy a suit, I’d probably go to Men’s Wearhouse – because you’re going to like the way you look; they guarantee it.

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.

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.

I’m lucky to be in a space where I’ve been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

‘Chance the Rapper’ is many things. I’m constantly evolving.

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.

There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.

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.

I want my music to be beautiful.

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.

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.

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.

My parents are super cheap.

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.

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.

I’m still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.

I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It’s not.

I don’t make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.

I think when you’re in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

I just get sick very easily.

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.

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.

I think that’s always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

I know for a fact that we’re not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.