Chance The Rapper

Like personal life, like just going through things.

I had Vic because he's – Vic is Ghanaian.

He's half Ghanaian.

So he's been going to Ghana since we were kids.

And now, I don't know if y'all know, but like Ghana's like popping – Ghana kind of looks like – you know what I'm saying?

It's like they got some shit going.

So it's like –

I'm seeing I'm seeing bro is in Africa doing and that's back when my mind was like Africa you know what I'm saying like now I'm much more educated I understand a lot of things I didn't understand but I'm like damn man Africa lit as fuck like and I'm here going through depression or whatever the fuck this shit feels like and I just hit him like bro I just need to come out there like and so I went out there just me no security me and my homie Peter Cottontail who produces most of my music went out there dolo like three days from when he said yes

popped up and that really like shaped a lot of the project.

It was other outside factors, my grandmother having a phone call with me that made me like really understand a lot of like my purpose as a writer, what lineage I come from, you know what I'm saying, meeting.

But a lot of the things that happened in Ghana that even like connected to my grandmother, like if I didn't go out there with Vic,

Like I a lot of the direction came from that, like the use of visual arts, the connecting the diaspora, the you know, the the you know, I learned right before I got out there that my family had a history of of Garveyites and people that follow Marcus Garvey.

And they was all on some like.

on some black star shit.

And so when, you know, and I fuck with black star with most definite quality, but I don't know nothing.

I didn't learn nothing from that shit when I was, I was hearing that as a kid.

So I really didn't know what they was talking about.

And right before I went to Ghana, my grandmother called me and had this long talk with me about,

how important it is to tell the truth about our histories and don't wait till my daughters are too old to like give them the, you know, some of the harsh realities of the world and just like this whole thing.

And then I'm like, when did you get so radical?