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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Chance The Rapper On The Chicago Music Scene' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-02. Transcript available.

uh-huh yeah what is what's the distinction as someone that came up through mixtapes
yeah what's
the distinction there because like for me I understood like when I was uh
younger like there
was like the drought and the dedication and those were just like you could tell
a little way was
just like taking people's beats and then just doing the songs better right and
for beats is
what they call it but like it seems like you know if you're reading this is too
late it just to me
that just registers as an album like acid rap just kind of in my mind registers
as an out like I don't
understand what the distinction is in people's mind I'm like a what do they
call it not an etymologist
but a linguist so like my whole thing is like attributing power to words and
like or like
reevaluating the power of words or removing power from certain words and so um
the the whole
mixtape thing was like a is it I'm just fucking around no but that's how the
world perceives it
because it's not commercial but the right the thing is that it's it's hella
work it's hella love
put into it yeah it's crazy it is crazy like I don't understand like what makes
56 nights a mixtape
and what makes dirty spray 2 an album it's his existence to me at the time when
I was growing
up when I was putting out my first mixtapes it's it's existence outside of the
market yeah while
having an influence on the market so albums are already within the commercial
landscape of like
there's a system there's labels that press records and yeah have control over
radio time and all these
other things and then there's you know then there's the culture separate from
that where I might burn
50 CDs and I know all the gas station I guess I know all the the radio DJs I
know all these people
and I'm gonna make this dude out the trunk I'm moving it out exactly so that's
the mixtape vibe
DJ Paul style you know so much I love I love music shout out to MC Hammer like
niggas don't really talk about it but MC Hammer and Master P a little bit later
yeah they they really
like started that out the trunk vibe like Memphis multi multi-state like
movements of that shit
the Memphis stuff that those DJ Paul like mixtapes like little fly and stuff
like that is the cool
it's some of the coolest music in the world it sounds like it's coming out of
hell because the
production is so bad 360 it sounds like it's like coming out of the depths of
hell it's some of
the coolest music I've ever listened to no facts yeah it's freeing so so you Chappelle's
your mentor
do you have a mentor in rap my mentor passed away so my mentor is a dude and I'm
so glad I get the
prodding your show no my mentor is a student named Mike Hawkins and we call him
brother Mike he's a
rapper he's a rapper poet revolutionary in Chicago in Chicago yeah and a lot of
the people that people
fuck with from Chicago out of my era Vic Mensah um no name uh Mick Jenkins
lucky ex um Nico I'm missing
I'm missing a lot of people was juice in your in yours yeah yeah yeah juice
juice didn't go to the
same uh uh after school program I think I don't think he went to you media
because he's from he's from
south suburbs so he like came up he's a little bit younger than me he liked emo
he kind of he invented
that no there was emo before it but it was emo emo I'm saying like emo in the
culture like in terms
of like he's like I think one of the highest selling artists all time like his
his uh yeah and definitely
the highest streaming artist all time yeah so his music and that's not posthumously
that's like during
his lifetime he's a you know he's a genius genius in his own right and I got to
spend a little bit of
time with him before he passed a couple of times and just like got to pick his
brain about that whole
era and he was aware of like like we thought of it as an after school program
but but niggas outside
of that looked at us like a super group you know I'm sure you've heard have you
ever heard of Saba
or Pivot or like like all of these people came from this little like we used to
go to this after
school program and literally just be kids rapping you were the good kids we
were you and Vic and and uh
Felix Biederman you guys were the good kids to you for sure I think the point
is like
there is a a value in like having a uh a cohort like a group of niggas that all
all trying to do the
same thing a scene yeah a scene that like that blew up I'll take a little one
who else is in your scene
wilco shout out to wilco they're a little bit older but but wilco's from chicago
band you know
i'm saying incredible band do you think you're do you think your fan base knows
wilco oh yeah
shout out to wilco shout out to jeff tweede you feel me dude uh yeah you like
john prime that's
another chicago guy i feel like i know that name i'm he's like uh he made like
country music you have
to go now no he's a guitarist right he's a guitarist oh he's like a yeah it's
like country folk but he's
from chicago yeah he's uh he's a god he died he died from covid damn yeah
unfortunately maybe that's
when i i might have heard him i feel like i heard that name recently yeah yeah
i'm checking how much
were you exposed to like um like like old blues like like chicago is such a
music music city it's
like so rich in in history i'm reading this 20 the keith richards autobiography
right now and like
they signed in chicago didn't they well they like like being the coolest guy i
guess
when they were like young men was like having the best records and they
literally they couldn't get
they like had to write to chess records to get muddy waters records sent to england
yeah and they
like had this music that no one else in their country had heard basically yeah
well you know the
invention of like celebrity as a musician is all kind of based off of like
trade embargoes opening up
and being like okay we can move music and media as like a export from america
and so people that had
never been to these other countries started becoming famous off of that and
famously a lot of the you
know like you know what we think of as like the vanguard of rock were all like
influenced by like
chicago records finally coming out of like i said chess records they are the
they're the goat swagged out
white boy they never even got the cultural appropriation like accusations the
stones yeah they were just
doing it black but they went on tour like we're like we're like we with this
like they were opening
up for little richard and for muddy waters and like literally singing their
songs like they
and they i think they don't get that because they were always open about where
their influence
they loved it yeah they loved it little richard took the beatles on tour he's a
god that guy
hundred percent hundred percent two d fruity is a song about butt sex the
architect that's what he is
the architect of rock and roll man you know that song is it's tutti foodie big
booty i didn't know
that yeah he's a gay guy like a psychopath gay guy that was just an unreal
musician yeah unbelievable
guy i love little richard he influenced like bob dylan too everybody he's the
architect of rock and
roll that's the like the deep thing about like all music and and as time goes
on it's like we continue to
do shows like this where we can have conversations it's like there's such a
rich history of
black people making something raw and then us stealing it well popularizing it
yeah what everyone
call it but like especially gay black guys too they'll they'll chicago house
chicago house is like
literally i didn't know that it was started by gay people but i wouldn't be
surprised because chicago as
like a culturally rich city like we have always been progressive and always
been like on the
forefront of like music getting introduced so like a lot of the like you said
deep house jungle all that
shit comes from house music in chicago and that comes from the club scene or
like the basement party
scene yeah it's amazing like techno comes from detroit and house comes from
chicago and then it's it was
exported to europe and they don't understand that i i feel like when you go to
like germany you go to like a
like a like a like a fucking like it sounds like it sounds like the matrix it
doesn't sound like there's
no like there's no like black there's no soul in it it's super different and it's
just like that
they but they're like consuming something that they don't realize kind of what
it what's funny though
is i will say like germany and like fucking poland and i think they have a
greater appreciation i feel like
and knowledge of the history of something so just yesterday yeah he was in high
park in chicago germany loves
their history we met 10 like multi-nationals from like korea and germany and
all these other places
that were foot workers you probably don't know what footwork yes i do okay so
like think about how
small of a like you're like most people my fans don't know what they're working
i know but can you
do it i can i won't today i showed herb a video of derek rose doing it in high
school have you seen that
video we've all seen that video yeah oh my god he's he could have been a dancer
no we all we all grew
up footworking but it's such a small subculture of a subculture of a city in
america that the idea
that i'm i'm telling you i met like 10 motherfuckers with thick accents that
could footwork better than
like a random person that grew up in chicago yeah because of the influence and
the reverence that they
pay overseas to you know dj rashad music that was my guy that was my guy yeah
no i i uh that music is
incredible yeah yeah rest in peace dj rashad that was my big brother that was
another one of my mentors
you you knew him well very well my first tour ever was with me and dj rashad
have you do you make music
as well have you ever like producing yeah yeah i'm not that good at juke music
like that like i got the
same like two rhythms when it comes making that but like other rhythms for sure
it's cool how they i don't
think it i don't fully actually buy it but when they say rick rubin doesn't
know any of the buttons
he's just vibes he has to know the buttons after all these years yeah i'm
certain but being so good at
chilling that you that you can be like a a super producer yeah that's the
coolest kind of guy you
can be not for sure it is about vibes it is about who you got in the room in
the studio like somebody
can throw a vibe off or like set the dude we have to go to the studio right now
i'll get the vibes get
the guitar get the guitar no um yeah i want to i want to talk to you about like
kind of your path because
it's it's interesting because you you got so successful so young right and now
you're 32 right
and like i think that like yeah like does this feel like what it's what does
the term come back
mean to you in the context of your new album that's a good question i feel like
i guess it just means
coming back to the fans it's been six years since i dropped a project and yeah
my you like the fans
i do they can be annoying though what's weird is like my fans like usually we
talked about the whole
thing about trading cards about the you know devaluing the human part of people
that we
consider to be celebrities or famous or whatever but what's weird about my fans
is like because it was so
grassroots and like me literally hand-to-handing mixtapes and like selling
merch and doing small
shows and growing over time my fans are really like my fans are really really
invested in like
me as a person and so when i meet them like i get stories that like me up like
stories
about how music genuinely saved their life they were in a dark place or you
know i got divorced when
they got divorced or i got married when they got married or i had this when
they hit this and like
they should go to therapy probably they they're telling me their story no but
they're like it's
like uh i think uh there's a a value in being outside when you're me in that
like
the the type of like fan that i have is so at random it's so like so many
demographics so many
different like kinds of people that like i never expected and the stories they'd
be like you want to
say and listen to it really yeah people have said that to me that they were
like i was
depressed and suicidal but the come town podcast got me through it i was like
you should go to therapy

Chance The Rapper On The Chicago Music Scene

uh-huh yeah what is what's the distinction as someone that came up through mixtapes
yeah what's
the distinction there because like for me I understood like when I was uh
younger like there
was like the drought and the dedication and those were just like you could tell
a little way was
just like taking people's beats and then just doing the songs better right and
for beats is
what they call it but like it seems like you know if you're reading this is too
late it just to me
that just registers as an album like acid rap just kind of in my mind registers
as an out like I don't
understand what the distinction is in people's mind I'm like a what do they
call it not an etymologist
but a linguist so like my whole thing is like attributing power to words and
like or like
reevaluating the power of words or removing power from certain words and so um
the the whole
mixtape thing was like a is it I'm just fucking around no but that's how the
world perceives it
because it's not commercial but the right the thing is that it's it's hella
work it's hella love
put into it yeah it's crazy it is crazy like I don't understand like what makes
56 nights a mixtape
and what makes dirty spray 2 an album it's his existence to me at the time when
I was growing
up when I was putting out my first mixtapes it's it's existence outside of the
market yeah while
having an influence on the market so albums are already within the commercial
landscape of like
there's a system there's labels that press records and yeah have control over
radio time and all these
other things and then there's you know then there's the culture separate from
that where I might burn
50 CDs and I know all the gas station I guess I know all the the radio DJs I
know all these people
and I'm gonna make this dude out the trunk I'm moving it out exactly so that's
the mixtape vibe
DJ Paul style you know so much I love I love music shout out to MC Hammer like
niggas don't really talk about it but MC Hammer and Master P a little bit later
yeah they they really
like started that out the trunk vibe like Memphis multi multi-state like
movements of that shit
the Memphis stuff that those DJ Paul like mixtapes like little fly and stuff
like that is the cool
it's some of the coolest music in the world it sounds like it's coming out of
hell because the
production is so bad 360 it sounds like it's like coming out of the depths of
hell it's some of
the coolest music I've ever listened to no facts yeah it's freeing so so you Chappelle's
your mentor
do you have a mentor in rap my mentor passed away so my mentor is a dude and I'm
so glad I get the
prodding your show no my mentor is a student named Mike Hawkins and we call him
brother Mike he's a
rapper he's a rapper poet revolutionary in Chicago in Chicago yeah and a lot of
the people that people
fuck with from Chicago out of my era Vic Mensah um no name uh Mick Jenkins
lucky ex um Nico I'm missing
I'm missing a lot of people was juice in your in yours yeah yeah yeah juice
juice didn't go to the
same uh uh after school program I think I don't think he went to you media
because he's from he's from
south suburbs so he like came up he's a little bit younger than me he liked emo
he kind of he invented
that no there was emo before it but it was emo emo I'm saying like emo in the
culture like in terms
of like he's like I think one of the highest selling artists all time like his
his uh yeah and definitely
the highest streaming artist all time yeah so his music and that's not posthumously
that's like during
his lifetime he's a you know he's a genius genius in his own right and I got to
spend a little bit of
time with him before he passed a couple of times and just like got to pick his
brain about that whole
era and he was aware of like like we thought of it as an after school program
but but niggas outside
of that looked at us like a super group you know I'm sure you've heard have you
ever heard of Saba
or Pivot or like like all of these people came from this little like we used to
go to this after
school program and literally just be kids rapping you were the good kids we
were you and Vic and and uh
Felix Biederman you guys were the good kids to you for sure I think the point
is like
there is a a value in like having a uh a cohort like a group of niggas that all
all trying to do the
same thing a scene yeah a scene that like that blew up I'll take a little one
who else is in your scene
wilco shout out to wilco they're a little bit older but but wilco's from chicago
band you know
i'm saying incredible band do you think you're do you think your fan base knows
wilco oh yeah
shout out to wilco shout out to jeff tweede you feel me dude uh yeah you like
john prime that's
another chicago guy i feel like i know that name i'm he's like uh he made like
country music you have
to go now no he's a guitarist right he's a guitarist oh he's like a yeah it's
like country folk but he's
from chicago yeah he's uh he's a god he died he died from covid damn yeah
unfortunately maybe that's
when i i might have heard him i feel like i heard that name recently yeah yeah
i'm checking how much
were you exposed to like um like like old blues like like chicago is such a
music music city it's
like so rich in in history i'm reading this 20 the keith richards autobiography
right now and like
they signed in chicago didn't they well they like like being the coolest guy i
guess
when they were like young men was like having the best records and they
literally they couldn't get
they like had to write to chess records to get muddy waters records sent to england
yeah and they
like had this music that no one else in their country had heard basically yeah
well you know the
invention of like celebrity as a musician is all kind of based off of like
trade embargoes opening up
and being like okay we can move music and media as like a export from america
and so people that had
never been to these other countries started becoming famous off of that and
famously a lot of the you
know like you know what we think of as like the vanguard of rock were all like
influenced by like
chicago records finally coming out of like i said chess records they are the
they're the goat swagged out
white boy they never even got the cultural appropriation like accusations the
stones yeah they were just
doing it black but they went on tour like we're like we're like we with this
like they were opening
up for little richard and for muddy waters and like literally singing their
songs like they
and they i think they don't get that because they were always open about where
their influence
they loved it yeah they loved it little richard took the beatles on tour he's a
god that guy
hundred percent hundred percent two d fruity is a song about butt sex the
architect that's what he is
the architect of rock and roll man you know that song is it's tutti foodie big
booty i didn't know
that yeah he's a gay guy like a psychopath gay guy that was just an unreal
musician yeah unbelievable
guy i love little richard he influenced like bob dylan too everybody he's the
architect of rock and
roll that's the like the deep thing about like all music and and as time goes
on it's like we continue to
do shows like this where we can have conversations it's like there's such a
rich history of
black people making something raw and then us stealing it well popularizing it
yeah what everyone
call it but like especially gay black guys too they'll they'll chicago house
chicago house is like
literally i didn't know that it was started by gay people but i wouldn't be
surprised because chicago as
like a culturally rich city like we have always been progressive and always
been like on the
forefront of like music getting introduced so like a lot of the like you said
deep house jungle all that
shit comes from house music in chicago and that comes from the club scene or
like the basement party
scene yeah it's amazing like techno comes from detroit and house comes from
chicago and then it's it was
exported to europe and they don't understand that i i feel like when you go to
like germany you go to like a
like a like a like a fucking like it sounds like it sounds like the matrix it
doesn't sound like there's
no like there's no like black there's no soul in it it's super different and it's
just like that
they but they're like consuming something that they don't realize kind of what
it what's funny though
is i will say like germany and like fucking poland and i think they have a
greater appreciation i feel like
and knowledge of the history of something so just yesterday yeah he was in high
park in chicago germany loves
their history we met 10 like multi-nationals from like korea and germany and
all these other places
that were foot workers you probably don't know what footwork yes i do okay so
like think about how
small of a like you're like most people my fans don't know what they're working
i know but can you
do it i can i won't today i showed herb a video of derek rose doing it in high
school have you seen that
video we've all seen that video yeah oh my god he's he could have been a dancer
no we all we all grew
up footworking but it's such a small subculture of a subculture of a city in
america that the idea
that i'm i'm telling you i met like 10 motherfuckers with thick accents that
could footwork better than
like a random person that grew up in chicago yeah because of the influence and
the reverence that they
pay overseas to you know dj rashad music that was my guy that was my guy yeah
no i i uh that music is
incredible yeah yeah rest in peace dj rashad that was my big brother that was
another one of my mentors
you you knew him well very well my first tour ever was with me and dj rashad
have you do you make music
as well have you ever like producing yeah yeah i'm not that good at juke music
like that like i got the
same like two rhythms when it comes making that but like other rhythms for sure
it's cool how they i don't
think it i don't fully actually buy it but when they say rick rubin doesn't
know any of the buttons
he's just vibes he has to know the buttons after all these years yeah i'm
certain but being so good at
chilling that you that you can be like a a super producer yeah that's the
coolest kind of guy you
can be not for sure it is about vibes it is about who you got in the room in
the studio like somebody
can throw a vibe off or like set the dude we have to go to the studio right now
i'll get the vibes get
the guitar get the guitar no um yeah i want to i want to talk to you about like
kind of your path because
it's it's interesting because you you got so successful so young right and now
you're 32 right
and like i think that like yeah like does this feel like what it's what does
the term come back
mean to you in the context of your new album that's a good question i feel like
i guess it just means
coming back to the fans it's been six years since i dropped a project and yeah
my you like the fans
i do they can be annoying though what's weird is like my fans like usually we
talked about the whole
thing about trading cards about the you know devaluing the human part of people
that we
consider to be celebrities or famous or whatever but what's weird about my fans
is like because it was so
grassroots and like me literally hand-to-handing mixtapes and like selling
merch and doing small
shows and growing over time my fans are really like my fans are really really
invested in like
me as a person and so when i meet them like i get stories that like me up like
stories
about how music genuinely saved their life they were in a dark place or you
know i got divorced when
they got divorced or i got married when they got married or i had this when
they hit this and like
they should go to therapy probably they they're telling me their story no but
they're like it's
like uh i think uh there's a a value in being outside when you're me in that
like
the the type of like fan that i have is so at random it's so like so many
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