A biography for Chance The Rapperhasn’t been written yet.
“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?”
“I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.”
“I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.”
“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.'”
“There was a point where I just did not care about my body.”
“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.”
“I was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.”
“I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can.”
“Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.”
“I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.”
“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.”
“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?'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.”
“I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.”
“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.”
“I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.”
“God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.”