Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
Rapper just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated people still bring a lot to it.
I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.
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.
Nah that's not true.
The biggest terrorist is Obama.
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
I have less compassion than the average human.
It doesn't sound anything like 'Under Pressure.'
I lost my virginity when I was 6 years old.
I got raped when I was 11 and I loved it.
The day Obama got elected the gangsta became less relevant.
It's a difficult time for a lot of people right now.
Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.
Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth.
I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad you maaad you maaaaad.
During your life never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take no mistakes and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
For me performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
But by just being myself I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper but without the artillery. We don't carry guns we carry cookies.
People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist.
Some people say I'm conscious some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it whether you're an author a painter a singer a rapper a spoken-word artist - art.
I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.
I'm my favorite rapper.
I secretly want to be a rapper.
I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
My only scheme was to be a rapper.
I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.
I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.
I am a singer not a full-on rapper.
I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper.
If you're really a rapper you can't stop rapping.
I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.
Lil Wayne is definitely the greatest youngest rapper alive.
I think Lil Wayne is definitely a dope rapper.
I'm the main rapper of B2ST Yang Yoseob!
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
I don't recall being excited about a new rapper ever.
Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.
How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?
I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.
I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable.
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
Je ne peux plus continuer de rapper.. J'ai assassiné l'alphabet !
I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.
Truthfully a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.
I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.
I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.
I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.
I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.
I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.
White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
We Know that World's best rapper is Eminem and He is White
Being compared to Biggie that's the best feeling a rapper could have
You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.
Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says you only get one shot.
Anybody can be a rapper but not anybody can be a classical artist.
As a rapper your verses are like a window in to who you are.
Jay-Z's my favorite rapper but why can't I aspire to be better than him?
Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.
Just because a rapper is white I don't feel the need to attack them.
I'm a rapper-singer or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me.
You got married recently to a rapper. It doesn't take them long to impregnate women.
I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.
I'm obviously not a rapper and I don't have any claims to be one really.
This one Corbusier lamp was like my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.
It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.
When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade I would pretend to be a sad drunk rapper.
John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.
I would say Lil Wayne [is the best rapper]. He's all about hard work and consistency.
Being a black rapper is like being a Southern socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.
Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns As I crush so-called Willies thugs and rapper-dons.
Amber London is a political rapper a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.
People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.
I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.
I'm a big-time Fabolous fan. He's my favorite rapper ever. I hope to meet him one day.
If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper I won't be able to get in their cars.
I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that or tell someone that's your profession.
When we say a rapper a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.
If you can make the hits then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.
I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.
There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all I'm the best.
Being a rapper is about being cool but being a comedian you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.
Everyone wants to label me but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.
When I slid into comedy naturally the first thing I said was "hello I am a washed up rapper.
I really love when people come up to me on the street and say 'You're my favorite rapper.'
When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.
I'm a prince for real I don't look at myself as a rapper as a gangster none of that.
I MAY NOT BE MUCH ELSE IN THIS WORLD BUT I GUARANTEE YOU I AM GETTING INTO RAPPER HEAVEN.
I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.
As a rapper I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk and it didn't matter.
I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.
When I was a rapper the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.
When you're rapping you do have to perform to a certain degree but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem.
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching "Okay you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper.
I change my direction I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.
I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.
A good rapper is a good rapper a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.
You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.
I get high like the clouds Gather every rapper up Bring em to the roof And watch em' fly for the Styles
I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.
You know who was on time tonight which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs like Ludacris or the 'it's so hot in here' guy Nelly.
What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper when he decided that he would rhyme.
The bottom line is if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned then I would be like "I can't be a rapper.
There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
I think every rapper should know how to sing like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.
Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So yeah I always knew I was gonna be one.
I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
Can't a rapper insist like other artists on a fictional reality in which he is somehow still on the corner despite occupying the penthouse suite?
I get offended when people say `So being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!
There was this rapper from New Orleans Mystikal who when I hear his music I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped I put on Mystikal.
After the Beatles and Dylan there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter or that if someone else is writing your rhymes you're a fake rapper.
I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop making everybody proud of me I'm not just a rapper now I'm in history now.
Since I was a kid I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white.
I'm not really interested in anybody that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like "Oh! Tupac!
Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.
You know Iâ??m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries man
I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.
I dunno around 11th grade 12th grade I was just like "yeah. This is something I want to do". I was always known; I was always the rapper.
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
If I do become more successful either as a producer or a rapper I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist my nature is to not be in a box.
I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.
I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who want to be rappers and they're not.
I think that whatever you do if you're a singer a rapper an architect dentist treat that like when you're doing it your whole career depends on that moment.
I'm proud of everything I do but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.
People in the record business would say Well Pras you know you haven't been out in a while maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.
I'm a producer/rapper so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music and I'm good at it.
I rarely get mentioned in the same category as these other guys who have come out after me...[b]ut maybe I'm not that maybe I'm not an Internet rapper.
I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know that I'm not a real designer that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper either!
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.
...The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th. God bless his soul rest in peace kid. It's because of him now at least I know what beef is.
Soulja Boy is on his dance down south young 18-year-old comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag it would be kind of boring.
I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100 000.
I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out you know what I'm saying? I would never try.
By the time it came to the 90s the late 90s being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman...
I don't even think I'm that good at rapping but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.
I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.
I think that's a weak excuse to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
I'm an entertainer so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.
I was a rapper and a DJ and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop you had to be involved in the sonic the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
If I were born in other generation I would be a singer rapper dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.
I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.
Dont call me a rapper Iâ??m an artist. Update your minds. I â??INCORPORATEâ?? hip hop elements because I am part MC but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.
In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one single solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.
I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories experiences the way places make me feel the way a person makes me feel.
I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.
I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.