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Chance The Rapper: 'Obama told me I needed to start selling my music'

Chance The Rapper has revealed that President Obama gave him some words of encouragement and praise when they met at the White House. 

He told America's GQ magazine that the POTUS was excited about the music he was creating and encouraged him to pursue a career within the industry:

"I think they were both (Malia and sister Sasha, 15) in school the day that I went up there recently, but Barack was talking about it. Or, uh, President Obama was talking about it (Coloring Book)."

"He didn't say it publicly. (After the My Brother's Keeper meeting) 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 s**t.' And he makes me wait 'til 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."

He added that he's a great supporter of Obama and thinks he's a genuine, hard-working man with solid values: "He's a good man. Even if he wasn't president, if his a** worked at, like, Red Lobster (U.S. chain restaurant), he'd be just a good man working at Red Lobster."

Earlier this month, Barack Obama shared details of his ultimate summer playlist with his online following and included Chance The Rapper's "Acid Rain". 

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