Chance The Rapper
Chance The Rapper
Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance the Rapper or Chance The Rapper, is an American hip hop recording artist from the West Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. In 2013, he began to gain major recognition following the release of his second mixtape, Acid Rap. Apart from his solo career, he is also a member of the Chicago collective Save Money, alongside frequent collaborator Vic Mensa, and has experimented as the lead vocalist for the band The Social Experiment. In May...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 April 1993
CountryUnited States of America
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 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.
Whats better than followers, is actually falling in love
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.
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
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
A cool & 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.
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme
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.
Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme, sometime the lies get millions of views, funerals for little girls is that appealing to you?
I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.