Chance the Rapper has admitted he tries not to think about the negative reception he received for his 2019 debut album, The Big Day.
In a recent episode of The Ebro Show, Chance spoke at length about how he feels about the poorly received LP.
"I think of my art on a qualitative basis," the rapper said (around the 15:40 mark in the video below). "I don’t ever make anything that I’m just like, 'Oh, this is alright.' I usually love the things I make."
After his explanation, host Ebro Darden raised the possibility that spam accounts were influencing the public's perception with hateful comments about the LP — causing Chance to suggest that this was one of the reasons that people didn’t like the project.
"At that time, I didn’t know shit about that," said Chance. "As I learned more about this stuff over the years, I had moments where I started to understand the whole thing more. I don’t really pay it too much mind, because of the fact that people, who have come up to me in real life, have tattooed lyrics from the album on their bodies."
"There was a point where it was definitely consuming to me, and I took a hit to my confidence in terms of what I was creating," Chance continued.
This isn’t the only time that Chance has spoken about The Big Day’s reception this year. In September, weeks after the release of his recent album Star Line, Chance chatted with Cam Newton about the project and how he bounced back afterward.
"You want people to love your music," Chance explained. "A little while after I dropped, I started to feel this intense criticism really only on the internet. And it took me a long time to recognize that part, but I felt it so intently that — and it was such a first-time feeling — that I … second-guessed myself for a second."
"I think what really helped me get out of that was becoming creative again, but in a different lane," he continued. "I started working with cameras, I started learning film and learning cinematography…basically putting myself through a fake film school."