Chance The Rapper Quotes

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

All rappers are princesses like me.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

I've been rapping since I was 13.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

Rap is very competitive. I just think I'm light years better than anybody.

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.

I never knew anything about rapping.

To me, rapping is an art.

The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.