Chance The Rapper

a literal kid who got famous.

Like, we don't say it, but I'm basically a child star.

I think anybody that gets on, like, from the age of 17, not saying I was even on, but I was touring with Childish Gambino as a kid.

Like, I had my first legal drink in Canada at, like, 19.

So, I'm like, you know, I'm having hella access, hella excess, like,

just having my way, shit on the flow.

And I'm... But I'm a kid.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, I still haven't, like... And then, you know, you add on having a baby, you add on, like, all these other things.

So on the song, I'm really just talking about, like, how...

All children in this first verse, all children, but especially the ones that went to do talent shows and open mics and wanted to be famous.

And like kids like Bieber that was playing drums as a kid, like we searching for love.

Like we really want love probably more outwardly and proudly and openly than the average person.

And because we get so much love,

adoration or adulation like we one of those words is wrong so sorry I don't know which one it is but because we get this other form that's like it is love but it's a different kind of love like

it presents challenges for us just in interacting and operating and how we present ourselves.

And sometimes, it's not a boo-hoo story, but just because of capitalism, just because of consumerism, just because of how we present to these cameras, people look at us like trading cards.

Our value goes up and down based on our takes and our most recent song.

And so like...

Within that, like you feel a certain, like you feel commodified or like dehumanized a little bit, especially if it's negative.