If you know anything about this Chicago native, than you know that he is heavily involved in learning news things anf reaching out. Chance the Rapper lectures the some Harvard University students at their Hiphop Archive & Research Institute on many current events such as the happenings in Baltimore, politics and performs a Q&A on hip-hop topics that include Kanye West, misogyny in hip-hop and Jay Z’s Tidal.
Check the jump for some key answers.
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Just this morning [May 7], Chance tweeted his love for Soundcloud. “I’ll stick with @SoundCloud till the day I die. Its the only music platform that cares about the artist and the fan,” he mentions. So, it is no surprise that during his lecture, he touched on the topic. “You get the craziest metrics that anybody can offer you: sex, age, region of the world these people live in, a very detailed account of who’s your fan and what they like.”
With Soundcloud being such an impact in his music’s release, the “Juice” artist opens up about his favorite recording. “I made a song with my band called “Everyday Wonderful” last year. It’s a cover of, yeah, [the theme from] the kid show Arthur is my proudest moment,” he says. “It’s not really a rap song, it’s not really my song, but I love that song.”
On uprising in Baltimore:
“I think it’s really most important for everybody to be informed, to be connected to the situation. I always say like there’s an act—when to be a hand or to be a voice. You gotta know when your Twitter is stronger or your body actually marches. Sometimes it’s either/or, you know? But I don’t want to dance around saying this shit is wrong. I think we all know that. It’s very hard to watch it happening on a loop.”On Jay Z’s Tidal and other streaming services:
“So the Tidal formula is awesome if it actually works out. It’s a direct fan-to-artist or fan-to-supplier type of connection, but it’s not really working that way yet. Everybody that was on the stage was like signed to a label and shit. At the end of the day, all these streaming services are whack as fuck.”On misogyny in hip-hop:
I’ve been working on lot music since I dropped Acid Rap two years ago. I wrote this whole verse, a very disrespectful verse for [J.] Cole’s use or for my use. A little less than a week later I was at my friend Peter’s house working on another record, and this record is called “Goofy.” The hook is this bitch a goofy over and over and over. It’s super, it’s terrible, but it’s a very catchy song. A few days after I wrote that record and recorded a scratch for it, I recorded another song called “Regular” for the Surf project. I don’t know where this came from, where this angst was coming from, where this disassociation with women or with black women specifically—because that’s my closer relationship to women—was coming from, but in a short period of time I was writing a lot of records that just seem to have just a lot of ill will.”
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For more from the lecture, check out FADAR.
