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Chicago’s Chance the Rapper speaks with Interview Magazine to talk, ACID RAP (which if you don’t have a copy of now you’re not sleeping, you’re in a state of comatose, the LP slaps!) In his interview Chance discusses Chicago, how life has changed with new found success, murder rate in Chicago, and his love for Kanye West.
Excerpts below:
TAYLOR: Were you thinking about the violence that comes along with the summer months?
CHANCE: Yeah. Chicago is a situation, you know? It’s more than just a city, it’s like a culture that allows gun violence to happen frequently, and there’s nobody that’s really saying that this shit is not normal, you know? The amount of violence—gun violence specifically, in Chicago—nobody’s doing too much about it. It’s scary. I want to voice it. I want to talk about it. The only person who’s done it to the capacity that I feel is Chief Keef. He’s put that to a lot of people’s faces, and I’m about to shove it in people’s faces. Not exactly in the same way, but people need to know. It’s current. It’s happening right this second. Today it was 70 degrees out in Chicago. And, I don’t know, whenever you write this, see how many gun-related deaths there were this day. If there’s less than two, I’ll give you five dollars later.
TAYLOR: What does Kanye West mean to you?
CHANCE: The first time I heard about Kanye, I was at Edwardo’s Natural Pizza in Hyde Park. I had this little Walkman thing, and it would play the radio. I think I heard “Through the Wire” first, and I was so into the soul sample. Like, the high-pitched—it was just some different shit that I wasn’t used to. I didn’t even know he was from Chicago. I remember listening for like, the next two hours, trying to find out who it was. Then they played “All Falls Down,” and the radio station was like, “This is Kanye West.” And I went, “Well, I’m into Kanye West.” A couple of weeks later I got the album, and then I found out I wanted to be a rapper.
