G.O.O.D. ASS JOB STILL COMING SOON!
This month marks the one-year anniversary of his Coloring Book mixtape, as Chance the Rapper still remains one of the most sought after free agents in music. The Chicago native is already working on an upcoming mystery project – fourth digital mixtape or official debut album we’re assuming.
Chano was profiled in Teen Vogue, where he touched on working with Kanye West. The two announced their collaborative Good Ass Job album last year; as he’s also trying to find time for his joint effort with Childish Gambino. While explaining how Dave Chappelle and Barack Obama are two of his of biggest inspirations, take a look at Chance talking about his third hero below.
On working with Kanye West.
Insanity. He’s very big on multitasking. We’ll have a studio rented out, and he’ll bounce between rooms working on different songs, writing for a second or adding or subtracting productions. He’ll also put a bunch of people in a room that he thinks might have good ideas and try to see what they come up with. I remember one night we had a lady who produced the Lego film, a bunch of coding people, and a magician all in a room together trying to figure out how they could make him disappear onstage. I don’t know if he ever figured that sh*t out! [Laughs] Twenty-five percent of it is productive ideas flowing and then 75 percent is lectures from Kanye, where he tells you exactly how he views the world — just very straight Kanye honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself. I’m a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary — but it’s also life-affirming.On gaining knowledge from his hero.
Yeah. I think it made him respect me to a certain extent in a different way. When I stepped in there, I was Kanye’s prodigy, not necessarily his protégé because everyone else in the room had been working with him for years. Me, I was just a kid who’d already honed his own thing. I was there on my own dollar in this room with these juggernauts. He knew I am somebody who has some answers of my own.
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