According to the Chainsmokers' Soundcloud, the song is less about Kanye West, and more about “being the person you want to be and not letting anyone take that from you”. As Kanye said, ' I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. '

How did The Chainsmokers get their name? In an interview with Billboard Alex explained the reason behind the band's name. "We actually met each other while we were both taking a smoke break outside so it was serendipitous that we ended up adopting The Chainsmokers as our name," Alex said.

The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alexander "Alex" Pall and Andrew "Drew" Taggart. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM-pop duo achieved a breakthrough with their 2014 song "#Selfie", which became a top-twenty single in several countries.

Chain smoking is the practice of smoking several cigarettes in succession, sometimes using the ember of a finishing cigarette to light the next. The term chain smoker often also refers to a person who smokes relatively constantly, though not necessarily chaining each cigarette.

"It's about just owning it no matter what you're doing,” Pall told Buzzfeed, explaining that Kanye should be thought of as an adjective, not a noun.

Kanye credits Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest as a major influence on his rapping and production style.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents The Chainsmokers in the landmark transaction with a Los Angeles team led by counsel Nima Mohebbi, with partner Ghaith Mahmood and associate Natasha Phillips.

On top of being DJs and electronic music producers, The Chainsmokers are also active tech investors. They founded a venture firm, Mantis VC, in 2019 with two other entrepreneurs and now have investments in a broad portfolio of fintech, machine learning, ecommerce, gaming, and healthcare startups.

If a person is a true chainsmokers during their waking hours, they can easily go through 4 to 5 packs a day (100 to 120 cigarettes), sometimes more, sometimes less. Some smokers, like myself, have days where we all but chainsmoke, and those days I can go through 4+ packs (80+ cigarettes) a day.

The DJ believes it's the song's nostalgic sensibility - as well as its infectious synth hook - that kept it so popular. “Everyone can relate to that, the idea of going back to college for one night, hooking up with an old girlfriend, all that,” Frank says.

Dangers of chain smoking Heart disease. Strokes. Damaged arteries and blood vessels. Heart attacks.

A chain smoker is someone who smokes more than one cigarette in a row, usually 4+ in a row, hence the low estimation of five. I've known someone to do this once a day, maybe when they get off work. It actually is a moderate nicotine dose. Damage wise these are on the low end of smokers.