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Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, mostly known as Chance the Rapper, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and philanthropist. Thanks to his unique vision unlike any other, inspirational Chance The Rapper Quotes will motivate you.

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Top 10 Chance The Rapper Quotes

I can’t gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding. — Chance the Rapper

I think that’s always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions. — Chance the Rapper

In the real world, we just people with ideas. — Chance the Rapper

I’m lucky to be in a space where I’ve been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am. — Chance the Rapper

I think when you’re in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter. — Chance the Rapper

I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can. — Chance the Rapper

I’m a good man, and I’m gonna become a better man. — Chance the Rapper

You gotta try and flip stuff. Everything you get, you can turn into something else. — Chance the Rapper

They don’t give nothing away. You gotta fight for your way. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

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Chance the Rapper’ is many things. I’m constantly evolving. — Chance the Rapper

Everybody’s somebody’s everything. I know you right. Nobody’s nothing. That’s right. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance The Rapper

When you make stuff from the ‘you’ point of view, you really can’t go wrong. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t make songs for free, I make ’em for freedom. Don’t believe in kings, believe in the Kingdom. — Chance the Rapper

Some people are so poor, all they have is money. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

I’m at war with my wrongs. — Chance the Rapper

The people’s champ must be everything the people can’t be. — Chance the Rapper

There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people. — Chance the Rapper

What’s wrong with me is what is right with me I am madly, insanely, in jealously in perfect love! — Chance the Rapper

When did you start to forget how to fly? — Chance the Rapper

Depending on the story that you’re telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody’s story. — Chance the Rapper

I think it’s very important for America that we’re represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding. — Chance the Rapper

Make new words for love and old uses for Kodaks. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label. — Chance the Rapper

I always wanted to be more of a person that people enjoy. Somebody that will make you laugh. I’m talking about just my personality, not necessarily how my music sounds. — Chance the Rapper

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I go broke a lot… I go broke a lot because I have this understanding that whatever I put out there, if I really am doing what’s right, it’s going to be rewarding, you know? — Chance the Rapper

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world. — Chance the Rapper

God is better than the world’s best day, God is better than the best day that the world has to offer. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t have to carry myself as anybody that I’m not, and people picked up on it. — Chance the Rapper

Sometimes the truth doesn’t rhyme. Sometimes the lies get millions of views. — Chance the Rapper

Smiles come through, though my eyes might cry. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people’s hands. But I’m kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t know why I sleep with my eyes wide hoping that I find you… — Chance the Rapper

We only know what we know until someone knows better. — Chance the Rapper

Clean up the streets so my daughter could have somewhere to play. — Chance the Rapper

Anything is respectable in its own realm. — Chance the Rapper

There was a point where I just did not care about my body. — Chance the Rapper

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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

I don’t know how to attack that question. Obviously, violence doesn’t come from music, that’s stupid. That’s not the answer, that’s not right. But music can be very influential especially on a viral basis. — Chance the Rapper

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative – thinking of it and then expounding on it. — Chance the Rapper

I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

I would think the open mic thing would be musically how he affected me, him building that space for me. And, also, in his passing, taught me that’s my job. I’m not a mentee anymore. I’m not a young artist in the same place; I’m not hungry for the same things. [The] gratification of being donned a great rapper isn’t as important as giving people the resources they need in order to make the statements they want to make. — Chance the Rapper

Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music. — Chance the Rapper

I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

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.’ — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

The first time I heard about Kanye, I was at Edwardo’s Natural Pizza in Hyde Park. I had this little Walkman thing, and it would play the radio. I think I heard Through the Wire first, and I was so into the soul sample. Like, the high-pitched—it was just some different shit that I wasn’t used to. I didn’t even know he was from Chicago. I remember listening for like, the next two hours, trying to find out who it was. Then they played All Falls Down, and the radio station was like, This is Kanye West. And I went, Well, I’m into Kanye West. A couple of weeks later I got the album, and then I found out I wanted to be a rapper. — Chance the Rapper

In what I’ve seen happen so far, the good usually wins. That’s why I’m not afraid of a Trump presidency. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

A cool and diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry. — Chance the Rapper

It wasn’t until I left that I realised it’s not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn’t. — Chance the Rapper

Fame or perceived success, it all comes from group think. — Chance the Rapper

I didn’t know love until I had my daughter. I didn’t know its bounds. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

I think I always knew I wasn’t gonna have a regular job. 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. — Chance the Rapper

I write a lot. There’re 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. — Chance the Rapper

No weapon formed against me shall prosper. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

Musically, from before he passed, he’s just been a huge influence, and teacher, and molder of me [from] when I was 14 years old. A father figure not just to me but everybody who grew up in that community: No-Name, Vic, Nico, Saba, Mick—anybody. As a man, also, he’s just taught me a lot of things about your role and how you speak to people. He’s just a great man. — Chance the Rapper

Even then, it was still kind of—I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

People wanna say that they’re part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We’re raised to believe that there’s something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I’m saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie! — Chance the Rapper

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

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. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people’s hands. But I’m kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice. — Chance the Rapper

This my part, nobody else speak. This little light of mine, Glory be to God, yeah. I’mma make sure that they go where they can’t go, if they don’t wanna ride, I’mma still give ’em rain coats. — Chance the Rapper

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people. — Chance the Rapper

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I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves. — Chance the Rapper

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! — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

I think it’s important for me to be qualified to have an opinion on it, and it be informed, but I don’t necessarily think using my platform is always the right thing. It’s more important for [people] to have information. I don’t necessarily always have information. If they’re getting it directly from an uninformed source, or they’re getting it from a source that they don’t really have a filter on in terms of how they take it in, it kind of becomes more propaganda. — Chance the Rapper

Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

My dream girl’s behind me, feel like I’m James Early. The type of worship make Jesus come back a day early. — Chance the Rapper

My father always told me that my legacy would be my children. And I think the most important thing about creating is the way that your music interacts with people, and the period that it’s released in, and the periods that will have it after your death, and how it’ll work in the world. — Chance the Rapper

When the only time he loves me is naked in my dreams. — Chance the Rapper

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum. — Chance the Rapper

Probably playing a Game Boy or saying some jokes. 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. Freestyling at lunch and all that shit. Cafeteria, playground, on the school bus, at parties and shit. Everywhere, man. — Chance the Rapper

I’ve never met Eminem; you don’t meet Eminem. He has his own secret service. — Chance the Rapper

I want to tell people to read ‘The Prince’ by Machiavelli – check that one out. It’s just changed my attack so – I think so much more inwardly. — Chance the Rapper

The weird thing about rap is that you don’t get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it’s probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: ‘This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.’ But in rap it’s not until you’re dead or retired that people think about it like that. — Chance the Rapper

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what’s on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

I like to think of my music the same way because a lot of my stuff is about my ideal world, and how I want things to function. I have a daughter who’s going to be raised in this world, and my music and my art are powerful tools in getting that to be formed the way I want it to. So, I guess when we talk about legacy, I would do anything to make sure that my legacy lives on and is a healthy one, but I still look at it a little differently. I don’t think the legacy of the music is necessarily what I think about when I think of mine. — Chance the Rapper

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

I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I’m lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support. — Chance the Rapper

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music. — Chance the Rapper

I know for a fact that we’re not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor. — Chance the Rapper

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’re no throwaway lines. Chance The Rapper

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? — Chance the Rapper

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

I asked my mom for The College Dropout, but she wouldn’t get it for me. This chick I used to see in grade school’s mom bought it for me. — Chance the Rapper

I don’t necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it’s always my job to influence people regarding my opinion. — Chance the Rapper

I feel like, at a certain point in life, I’d like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships. — Chance the Rapper

I was at my grandma’s house, in her bedroom. She was just chilling there. I remember I was sitting, and I had to do this Young Authors book project. You know about those? It was fourth grade, after Dropout came out. I made a book of poems, little illustrations in them. Poems, you know? But they were really raps. — Chance the Rapper

My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She’s just a great woman; a woman of the church. [She’s] a huge influence in my life in terms of my faith and my ideas of love, and women, and family roles: matriarchal role, patriarchal role. She’s very involved in my music and very attentive to what I do. She always wanted a song, so me and Nico, he’s Donnie Trumpet, we both are very close to her. We were making the project, we made the record for her, and we decided we wanted it to be the only single. We did it like that. — Chance the Rapper

I’m still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music. — Chance the Rapper

I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he’s also a community person. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

Me and my girl plan to stay to the end/Hope there never come a day where we be better as friends. — Chance the Rapper

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. — Chance the Rapper

One of my favorites, if not my favorite artists, definitely my favorite composer, is Kirk Franklin. — Chance the Rapper

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‘Cause we don’t, we don’t do what we say we’re gonna.
You were always perfect, and I was only practice.
Don’t you miss the days, stranger?
Don’t you miss the days?
Don’t you miss the danger? — Chance the Rapper

Everyone is special, This I know is true. — Chance the Rapper

Man my daughter couldn’t have a better mother, If she ever find another, he better love her. — Chance the Rapper

I’m gon’ praise Him, praise Him ’til I’m gone. — Chance the Rapper

I ain’t really that good at goodbyes,
I ain’t really that bad at leaving. — Chance the Rapper

Ready my blessin’, now I’m ready how I wait. — Chance the Rapper

Oh I used to kill ’em with the long hair
Momma hair salon doing perms out the armchair
Dad was working late, he treat the crib like it’s a timeshare — Chance the Rapper

Maybe you and I were meant to be. — Chance the Rapper

God is better than the world’s best day,
God is better than the best day that the world has to offer. — Chance the Rapper

What’s the point of gainin’ chicken if you lose all the sauce? — Chance the Rapper

Everybody outside, everybody outside
When I pull up outside, all night, no
Everybody high five, everybody wanna smile
Everybody wanna lie, that’s nice, no — Chance the Rapper

I ain’t no activist, I’m the protagonist, I don’t co-captain it, I fly solo like one cup in the cabinet. — Chance the Rapper

And my mother and my grandmother cocoa butter kisses, This is just a testament to the ones that raised me, The ones that I praise and I’m thanking. — Chance the Rapper

How great is our God, Sing with me, how great is our God. — Chance the Rapper

This for the kids of the king of all kings,
This is the holiest thing,
This is the beat that played under the Word,
This is the sheep that ain’t like what it herd. — Chance the Rapper

I’ma do my own thing, I’m finna buy a ringtone, then let the phone ring. — Chance the Rapper

You don’t want no problem, want no problem with me, bih! — Chance the Rapper