A biography for Chance The Rapperhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.”
“I'm lucky to be in a space where I've been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.”
“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 think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.”
“I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.”
“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.”
“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 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 would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.”
“The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.”
“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.”
“Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.”
“I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.”
“Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.”
“I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.”