This week's issue of Billboard features Chance the Rapper. The star opens up about his feelings on recent police brutality, how he became such a huge success without the help of a record label, his writing style, and more.
His feelings on the roles of police officers:
“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. There’s also not enough pressure on internal organizations that are supposed to police the police and on judges in the justice system who are supposed to make reasonable decisions.”
On rap being so competitive:
“I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It’s not. I can’t gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding,”
On his second album 'Acid Rap':
“I recorded it while on acid,”
On writing a tribute song for Muhammad Ali for the ESPY Awards:
“When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative — thinking of it and then expounding on it,” says Chance. “I was trying to rap with mad boxing metaphors, being very literal. It was cheesy.”
