Chance The Rapper

Do you think you went that route based off just a specific part of Twitter that reacted to the big day the way they did on the timeline?

100%.

So like, let me not go so far in time just to start a run.

Let me actually answer the first question first.

Like, yes, because I think like,

My shit has always been grassroots.

I really was a street team nigga.

I know how to work a project because I've been doing this since I was 14.

So my relationship to the fans and the way that that looks to the outside, I know the value of both of those things.

I know the value of having a person that will silently say, I love you and I'll buy a hat.

And I know the value of...

of the perception of people seeing a lot of people wearing a hat.

Like they both have their own separate values and I saw what was like, you know, this, whatever, you know what I'm saying?

I seen what was happening and I'm like,

I need to tap in with the people that support and show them, like, you know, give them a pride.

Because that's also a thing.

Like, if you love an artist, right, especially from a young age, a lot of times you kind of, like, you start to feel connected to them in a way that's like...

I represent this person, they represent me.

So when you see an artist that you fuck with getting trashed, like even if it's not conscious, subconsciously it makes you dissociate and it makes you, and sometimes it could like, you have like an actual emotional reaction to it.

And so it's like, if I love this artist a lot and I love their music and then I see like people are trashing it,