Chance the Rapper Says Working With Kanye West Is 'Insanity' But 'Life-Affirming'
Chance the Rapper and Kanye West have established a special creative bond ever since Yeezy took the then-rising artist under his wing a few years ago. Chance details his relationship with him in Teen Vogue's music issue.
The Coloring Book artist tells Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele what it's like working with West:
"Insanity. He’s very big on multitasking. We’ll have a studio rented out, and he’ll bounce between rooms working on different songs, writing for a second or adding or subtracting productions. He’ll also put a bunch of people in a room that he thinks might have good ideas and try to see what they come up with. I remember one night we had a lady who produced the Lego film, a bunch of coding people, and a magician all in a room together trying to figure out how they could make him disappear onstage. I don’t know if he ever figured that sh*t out! [Laughs] Twenty-five percent of it is productive ideas flowing and then 75 percent is lectures from Kanye, where he tells you exactly how he views the world—just very straight Kanye honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself. I’m a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary—but it’s also life-affirming."
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