SAGAL: Right now, you're wearing a cardigan. I know that one of your big hits is a song about your grandmother, "Sunday Candy." SAGAL: Now I - I know there's, like - there's different schools of rap - there's gangster rap there's West Coast rap. Some people might say it's too soon for you to become a rapper, you know what I'm saying? (Unintelligible).ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: It's a certain experience. Is it too late for me to become a rapper?ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: No, I don't think so. ROCCA: Would you please give it to me straight? I'm 46. SAGAL: They'll be going home and be like - wow, I heard the most amazing thing about this hip-hop music. SAGAL: You understand that whatever you say about this, everybody here will believe you. And you've got a masterpiece.ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: It's a lot of steps, so you should definitely write that down. And then, you know, you take off your socks and shoes, put a pencil between your toes and you start writing. You know, you got to sit down, focus on your breathing, you know, you want to do a good workout, push-ups, maybe sit-ups, play cards, think about your taxes, think about all the people that you've met, you know, in this life and possibly a past life, if you believe in that. I think there's a lot of premeditation, if you will, to making a rap. But how does it come to you?ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: That's a great question. SALIE: Chance, how do you actually compose a rap? Are you so talented that rhymes just come to you? Or - I would have to sit down with a rhyming dictionary and work for days. SAGAL: (Laughter) For throwing you out of school. SAGAL: If they're not here, they're listening.ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: No, I'd probably say thank you, shouts out to them for all the inspiration. What would you say now, if he or she were here, to the principal of the high school who suspended you?ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: Well, there's a strong chance that they're here 'cause this is an NPR show. You've put out some albums that have done tremendously well. SAGAL: So you're touring in hip-hop shows. SAGAL: You started making your name very quickly.ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: It did a lot for me, yeah. And my understanding is you put that on the internet - you worked on it for a while, put it on the internet when it was ready and it kind of took off. So on that 10-day break, I started recording a project called "10 Day," which was my debut project and put a lot of people onto what I was doing. I just - yeah.ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: So I got in trouble for this (laughter) - for having marijuana, and I was suspended from school. So when I was a senior in high school, I got suspended for having marijuana around the school. And you - what did you do?ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: Yeah. It's that you were thrown out of school for a little while when you were in high school. SAGAL: So - but the thing - the story we heard is that is that you have an origin story like a superhero. So less than 20 years ago, but yeah, pretty recently. Yeah, I did do that at my kindergarten graduation. SAGAL: We heard you - at one point, you did a fine Michael Jackson impersonation.ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: Wow, that's crazy. And yeah, I've been doing it for a while now. And this is the story we heard, which is that you've been performing since you were a kid, right?ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: Yeah, I started out doing talent shows and open-mic programs and youth programs around the city. I'll be 23 next year.ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a young guy. You're only about - what, you're 23?ĬHANCE THE RAPPER: I'm 22. SAGAL: And not - and you haven't been growing up for very long. Who cares about that Kanye guy? And we are delighted to have him with us today. As far as we see it, he's the king of Chicago hip-hop. SAGAL: Chance the Rapper got his name because nobody would believe a guy named Chancelor Bennett could rap. SAGAL: Oh, you're going to work out great, I can tell.
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SAGAL: And now the game where we ask very cool people about very lame things. They were there for our guest, Chance the Rapper.
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Last summer, we did our show outdoors at Chicago's Millennium Park in front up to 20,000 people.īILL KURTIS: But they weren't there for us.