Chance The Rapper
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They just played through some beats.
And me and Vic is just like, pick beats, like pick beats and write, pick beats and write.
Like we grew up in this program called Young Chicago Authors when we was kids.
And we used to have prompts.
And you basically come to the afterschool program, you get to chill for a second.
And then they gather everybody at this table and they like, okay, these are the two prompts for today.
You know, speak from speak from the viewpoint of, you know, a chair that got left in the attic or, you know, tell us your tell us your deepest fear.
And these are those are weak ass prompts.
I'm not a real teacher.
You know what I'm saying?
But like we grew up in this program where we used to have 15 minutes to write either a poem or a rap or whatever to this thing and then get on stage in front of our peers and have to spit that shit.
And so Vic brought it back to that really.
Like Vic was like, we need to do prompts.
Like we need to be, and I'm not 100% correct on that.
That's Vic and Aja Monet, who was also in a lot of those programs with me.
So we just spent time like writing.
And then the thing that really changed everything was,
At the end of that year, when I was first starting to kind of just like feel like I was having trouble, you know what I'm saying?