Chance the Rapper revealed that the First Family are big fans of his music in a new interview with GQ. “Malia listens to Coloring Book,” he said of the eldest First Daughter. “And I send them stuff sometimes. I haven’t seen Malia since I was a kid. I think they were both in school the day that I went up there recently, but Barack was talking about it. Or, uh, President Obama was talking about it.”
When asked if he was sure the President was a fan, Chance was positive. “He didn’t say it publicly. There was a big meeting [in April] about My Brother’s Keeper and criminal-justice reform, and a whole bunch of artists and celebrities were there,” said the rapper. “And at the end, everybody takes a group photo, and he’s signing stuff. And he keeps pushing me to the back, and I’m like, ‘I don’t understand why he won’t sign my shit.’ And he makes me wait till the end, and then he brings me up to his office, and we had a really good conversation about what I was working on. He told me I needed to start selling my music.”
The Chicago rapper is just as fond of President Obama as he is of the rapper, saying he would still be a fan if the politician worked at a restaurant. “He’s a good man. Even if he wasn’t president, if his ass worked at, like, Red Lobster, he’d be just a good man working at Red Lobster.”
The rapper also talked about why he insists on not signing to a label, the civilian-police relationship in Chicago and his time living in Los Angeles, saying that he was spaced out on Xanax for most of the time.
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