Chance The Rapper Quotes

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

A record deal is my dream.

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

As an independent artist, you're always figuring out how you're going to fund your next album.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.

If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

I realized how important it was to have a good team - manager, attorney and label. It's not just about putting out a record and somebody signing you.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

I'm an independent. I've signed with no label.

Def Jam just made deals with me. They wouldn't let me go because they didn't really have that much street cred. So they kept me around.

Even though I haven't released a song since 2010, I have still performed, so I don't feel I have been completely away from music. I have been away on a mainstream level, of course. But releasing a single this way - on my own independent record label - is more fun.

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

I made this record without a record label.