139 Quotes by Chance The Rapper

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

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.

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

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 was a mad, impressionable kid, and every skit from 'The College Dropout' was telling me how I didn't need school.

I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.

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

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

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.