Chance the Rapper is featured on this week's issue of Billboard, with the artist opening up about his success, rap as a genre and more.
Chance the Rapper
Chatting about the rap game being so competitive, he admitted: "I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not. I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding."
He also revealed that he was 'on acid' whilst recording his second album 'Acid Rap', and said of writing a tribute song for Muhammad Ali for the ESPY Awards: "When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.
"I was trying to rap with mad boxing metaphors, being very literal. It was cheesy."
Meanwhile, the musician also spoke about his feelings towards the roles of police officers, with police brutality at the forefront of everyone's mind because of repeated deaths in the black community at the hands of officers.
Chance said: "There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationships to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
"There's also not enough pressure on internal organisations that are supposed to police the police and on judges in the justice system who are supposed to make reasonable decisions."
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