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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Chance The Rapper

Always

Myself

Want

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Chance The Rapper

Information

Giving

" I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago. "

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

Chance The Rapper

Artist

World

" There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart. "

" 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 can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding. "

" I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds. "

" I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Chance The Rapper

Parents

College

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

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

" The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. "

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

Chance The Rapper

Amazing

Feel

" Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way. "

" 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. "

" I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is, people are afraid to speak about God to a certain extent, and I think if you're not free to speak about God, then you're not free. "