Chance the Rapper is opening up about his personal life and struggles with addiction. While speaking with Complex, the Chicago rapper admits he “would have died” if he didn’t change the drug-fueled lifestyle he was living during his ‘Acid Rap‘ era.
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Chance The Rapper Admits He ‘Would Have Died’ If He Didn’t Change His Drug-Fueled Lifestyle During ‘Acid Rap’ Era
During his sit-down with Complex, Chance the Rapper reflected on his past bouts with drugs, which happened at the height of his career.
Ahead of his upcoming ‘Acid Rap‘ anniversary celebration in Chance’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois, the 3x Grammy Award-winning rapper recalled how he created the album, how he led a movement, and how he also led a drug-fueled lifestyle that could have killed him.
In one clip from the interview, Chance answered a question about why he has changed since his ‘Acid Rap‘ days. He admitted, “I probably would have died.”
Chance explained, “Definitely, the way that I was living at that time. I had everything in excess. Right after I dropped the project, I went on a few tours where I really didn’t make any money. Then I went on my first tour, my headlining tour, where I made some money. And I went and rented a crib. This was my first time living outside of my parents’ house in another city, and having money, and doing a lot drugs. Like, a lot, a lot, a lot of drugs. And just like becoming a different person, like a lesser person than I am now.”
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Chance continued to speak on his past drug-fueled lifestyle and added, “If I hadn’t had my spirit tugged on, literally, and a calling to become a better version of myself, then I would have died for sure. Then I would just be the representative of acid.And I’m so much more. Entertainment is entertainment. Like ,we like it because it’s something that”s recorded that we could experience in that one time and then hopefully come back and listen to it and it sounds the same. but, it takes away from the humanity from the people who make it.”
In another clip from the interview, Chance said he quit acid one month after dropping ‘Acid Rap.’
He explained, “I don’t ever want to sound like I’m taking credit for sh*t, druggie culture, like, n***as rapping about doing LSD and like other sh*t that wasn’t weed was not happening in 2012. N***as was calling me a weirdo and all types of sh*t so like, I had to deal with that and carry that, and also realize that, like, my projects described experiences that I had already been through, but they weren’t necessarily … they were not the sum of me or like the whole exploration of who I am as a person.’
Chance continued, “I stopped doing acid probably less than a month after the project came out. Like, I was like, ‘I’m done with this,’ right? After too many bad trips and just like weird sh*t happening to me. I was done with it, but I had to deal with for the next like year and a half having everybody that met me trying to either offer me acid or ask me interview questions about acid and like have to be basically the spokesperson for drugs. But, I had to come to myself and realize and remember that I was not making those songs off acid, like I maybe found some beats I liked off acid, but it was me making the songs. And I think that was probably the key thing that I learned out of that experience.”
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