“Fame or perceived success – it all comes from groupthink.”
“Clean up the streets so my daughter could have somewhere to play.”
“Depending on the story that you’re telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody’s story.”
“Everybody’s somebody’s everything”
“I’d say it’s very forward. Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog, and how you would look in a museum.”
“There’s nothing like doing a show at home. When you do a show in Chicago, there’s just a certain love that you don’t feel anywhere else; it’s like home base.”
“What’s wrong with me is what is right with me I am madly, insanely, in jealously in perfect love!”
“The people’s champ must be everything the people can’t be.”
“Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love”
“Sometimes the truth doesn’t rhyme. Sometimes the lies get millions of views.”
“Don’t believe in kings, believe in the Kingdom”, Freedom
“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.”
“Smiles come through, though my eyes might cry.”
“I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.”
“There’s not really a responsibility at all to tell people of your accomplishments, but I think in Kanye’s situation, it’s Kanye West.”
“When you make stuff from the ‘you’ point of view, you really can’t go wrong.”
“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.”
“Anything is respectable in its own realm.”
“I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.”
“Chance the Rapper’ is many things. I’m constantly evolving.”
“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.”
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.”
“I don’t make songs for free, I make ’em for freedom
“I write a lot. There’s always just different things I’m thinking about. Like, it’s getting warm outside right now, so I’m thinking about the summer and what comes with that and everything.”
“I don’t necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it’s always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.”
“There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.”
“Everybody’s somebody’s everything. I know you right. Nobody’s nothing. That’s right.”
“You’re always going to have the same tools, primitive tools that people are going to touch and use to make different tonal sounds. That’s the hustle: You gotta try and flip stuff. Everything you get, you can turn into something else.”
“I know for a fact that we’re not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.”
“There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.”
“I don’t really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.”
“I can’t gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.”
“Even then, it was still kind of—I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.”
“I think that’s always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.”
“No weapon formed against me shall prosper.”
“Fame or perceived success – it all comes from group think.”
“I don’t really see myself ever needing a house in Paris or some freaky shit like that. I just want to get old in Chicago and be with my homies and make dope music and randomly come to Harvard and give a lecture. I thought you guys were troubled kids and shit and I was coming to talk to you about getting your lives together!”
“I don’t know why I sleep with my eyes wide hoping that I find you…”
“In the real world, we just people with ideas.”
“My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.”
“I always thought about how it would affect my future family. But I’m definitely more awake and understanding of the world and its functions now that I am a father.”
“Sometimes the truth don’t rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views.”
“What’s better than followers is actually falling in love.”
“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.”
“I’m at war with my wrongs.”
“When the only time he loves me is naked in my dreams.”
“For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.”
“They don’t give nothing away. You gotta fight for your way.”
“Don’t believe in kings, believe in the Kingdom.”
“Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love.”
“We only know what we know until someone knows better.”
“Don’t make the music that they like. Make them like the music that you make.”
There’s not really a responsibility at all to tell people of your accomplishments, but I think in Kanye’s situation, it’s Kanye West.”
“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.”
“I’m a good man, and I’m gonna become a better man.”
