Chance The Rapper

So it does feel like a long time.

especially in that now that I'm getting closer to the release, I'm getting back to like that feeling of like, you know, people just coming up to me in the street being like, yo, I'm excited for your project.

And that shit, that's a great feeling.

So I feel like, but I feel like in this time from, you know, all the little like,

Lucy releases that I put out, all the art collaborations.

We were in museums.

We put on a festival in Ghana for 52,000 people.

We did a lot of things that were all still in line with this album and what the album talks about, what the album's promoting.

And so it feels like we were in a hyperbolic time chamber, training hard as fuck and doing little side missions.

But then...

now the pop out, like now people will see it.

And it was like, damn, he just damn near came off a mountain.

Like he just, like, he just came back.

And with this, I feel like the writing y'all heard a lot of the subjects, but even the, I think it takes a few listens to hear, but like a lot of the literary references, a lot of the, like, you know, um,

And poetic references, especially for I think some of my fans that are in the literature or in the writing or in the poetry, you'll see that I'm pulling from a lot of areas that I wasn't pulling from in my earlier works.

So I feel like this six years has been me doing push-ups for six years straight.

Was the six years, was that a conscious decision or that's just how life like?

No, I definitely wanted to be less than that.

For sure.

But I feel like what I was trying to do was I was trying to create moments.