{"id":46675,"date":"2025-11-11T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/chance-the-rapper-interview-star-line-album-stepping-on-haters\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:12:23","slug":"chance-the-rapper-interview-star-line-album-stepping-on-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/chance-the-rapper-interview-star-line-album-stepping-on-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance The Rapper Interview &#8211; Star Line Album, Stepping on Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Homecoming<\/span><br \/>Six years after releasing his debut album, Chance The Rapper returns with his sophomore album amid a changing world and a significant shift in his own life.<br \/><em>Words:\u00a0Peter A. Berry<\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Editor\u2019s Note: This story appears in the\u00a0Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands\u00a0now and available for sale on the XXL website.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/chance-the-rapper\" target=\"_blank\">Chance The Rappe<\/a>r is experiencing a career redemption arc, it\u2019s unclear whether he recognizes it. On August 15, the release date of his sophomore album, <em>Star Line<\/em>, he joins a Zoom call from his hometown of Chicago. This album marks his first major release since his 2019 debut LP, <em>The Big Day<\/em>, which did not perform well, commercially. As a result, there is a lot at stake for him. However, rather than dwelling on grand comeback narratives or seeking revenge on anonymous critics, Chance provides a refreshingly practical perspective on the goals for his new project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing that Chance The Rapper could be putting his pen to is not always necessarily proving the haters wrong,\u201d the rapper explains. \u201cWhat I did with my project is I made a lot of people who loved me happy and put out a project that they could live with for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Chancelor Bennett used his innate dexterity and panoramic altruism to break out with projects like <em>10 Day<\/em> (2012) and <em>Acid Rap<\/em> (2013), the Midwest MC took home the 2017 Grammy for Best Rap Album for the 2016 mixtape <em>Coloring Boo<\/em>k. By winning a gramophone with a free project, Chance helped rewrite music industry norms. That same year, his guest appearance on DJ Khaled\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m The One,\u201d also featuring Lil Wayne, Quavo and Justin Bieber, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>Chance\u2019s increasing presence in pop culture and his musical output have set a high standard for him. Unfortunately, he fell short with his debut album, <em>The Big Day<\/em>, which led some critics and even fans to conclude that he was more valuable for memes than for music. The release of his new project, <em>Star Line<\/em>, feels like a stage for a fairytale comeback. However, for Chance, simply creating good and impactful music is the best way to make a comeback\u2014perhaps the only way.<\/p>\n<p>After experiencing a divorce from Kirsten Corley, the mother of his two children, last year, Chance has taken time to reflect on himself and his life. \u201cI spent time learning about community, learning about myself, learning my self-worth,\u201d he shares. \u201cNow, at 32, I could say I understand myself and the world a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chance learned a lot while he wasn\u2019t dropping new music. \u201cI\u2019ve probably been the busiest I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d he says. He nods to a series of self-directed music videos he released independently and his 2021 concert film, <em>Magnificent Coloring World<\/em>, as proof of his productivity. Ditto for the Black Star Line culture festival he launched and hosted alongside Vic Mensa in Ghana two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Those side missions are just part of the sprawling creativity and DIY ethos that\u2019s powered Chance\u2019s career since the moment a school suspension led him to craft his first mixtape. \u201cOne of the best parts about being independent is being able to chart your own path and decide [your own schedule],\u201d Chance tells. \u201cIt allows you a lot of time to show your greatness in other spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside of business hours, Chance has been coparenting his two daughters, Kensli, 10, and Marli, 6, as he adjusts to life post-divorce. He and his now ex-wife announced their plans for divorce last April, and Corley filed the official paperwork that December. When Chance hasn\u2019t been recalibrating his home life, he\u2019s kicked back with audio engineers in his studio\u2019s home theater to watch flicks like <em>Megalopolis<\/em> or video essays from YouTube creator F.D Signifier.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Chance helped reopen Chicago\u2019s Ramova Theater in 2023, alongside Quincy Jones, Jennifer Hudson, and 49 other investors. While it\u2019s nominally an 1,800-person concert venue that\u2019s hosted acts like ScHoolboy Q and Scarface, Chance used it for phone banking, and it\u2019s been rented out for various local events.<\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, there\u2019s the music. Chance doesn\u2019t remember the exact start date, but recording sessions for <em>Star Line<\/em> began in 2019. And there have been a lot of them. On Sundays, he keeps his skills sharp by joining Zoom meetings with other producers and rappers, such as Jean Deaux, Mick Jenkins and Saba, for virtual writing bootcamps called 16s chapel: write a strong 16-bar verse in 16 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Chance often found himself reimagining songs he had already recorded. Every day, he spent time reflecting on his work. Over the past three years, there were moments when it seemed he might abandon the project, yet he never set a release date. He attributes the delay to his meticulous nature. \u201cI create a lot like a painter. I work on stuff over time,\u201d Chance explains. \u201cThere isn\u2019t a single song on that album where both verses were made on the same day or even in the same month, in most cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He toiled away at his latest opus outside the glow of the mainstream spotlight. At least one friend noticed how the words of critics and gossip folks weighed on him. \u201cChance has always had this reckless, relentless optimism and a real buoyant spirit, the thing that people recognize and love in his music,\u201d says his old friend Vic Mensa, who joins Chance on the album cut \u201cBack to the Go.\u201d \u201cIn some of these years, I\u2019ve seen darker elements of his personality. Just sadness and struggle and depression and the real meat and bones underbelly of human experience.\u201d There\u2019s no concrete reward for being traumatized, but Mensa says public scrutiny pushed Chance to new artistic peaks. \u201cIt\u2019s low-key made him write some of the dopest sh*t he\u2019s ever written.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chance has said <em>Star Line<\/em> was inspired by travels abroad, but it\u2019s rooted in the energy of his Chicago hometown. Buoyed by his reassuring, melodious baritone and embedded with smooth verses from local legends Do or Die, \u201cRide\u201d could soundtrack a cruise down Lake Shore Drive or a trip in the Magic School Bus. Laced with a sinister piano loop, \u201cDrapetomania\u201d is a kinetic exercise in playful Chi-town drill, with Chance matching the matter-of-fact decisiveness of rising local star BabyChiefDoit.<\/p>\n<p>But Chance isn\u2019t just connecting with the new generation or foundational pillars of the Windy City\u2019s rap yesteryear. He\u2019s linking up with fellow local heroes, who are friends, like Mensa, BJ The Chicago Kid and Jamila Woods, too.<\/p>\n<p>On a technical level, Chance looked to embody Lupe Fiasco\u2019s political fury and magical command of sensory detail. With tracks like \u201cStar Side Intro,\u201d he lays out a proverbial death and resurrection narrative of his career. It\u2019s one laced with acts of charity, powerful flexes and his customary rap pyrotechnics. \u201cThe last time that my check got commas\/My whips got horses, my chains got blinders\/Teachers got laptops, the kids got binders\/Celebrity barber, but my stars all lined up\/The three went platinum, the one went diamond\/I had a F-minus, but that\u2019s behind us,\u201d Chance raps on the track, with the final line in the stanza soaring like an exhale.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Line<\/em> is more reflective than vindictive, which was a thematic imperative for Chance when completing the project. Elsewhere on the album, he raps about depression and lost innocence (\u201cNo More Old Men\u201d with Jamila Woods). For the latter, Chance\u2019s somber hook hovers like a lone, suspended balloon above the Chicago skyline.<\/p>\n<p>Part rebirth and perhaps part eulogy for his past self, <em>Star Line<\/em> eschews the cloying, meandering nature of <em>The Big Day<\/em>, rendering his thoughts with the agility, clarity and melodic coloring that helped make him a star more than a decade ago. Star Line isn\u2019t a major commercial triumph\u2014it debuted at No. 22 on the Billboard 200 albums chart\u2014but it\u2019s gotten favorable reviews from critics and fans alike.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Jenkins, who partakes in the 16s chapel sessions with Chance and has known him since Chance called out Mick for spitting pre-written verses during a freestyle session outside of the Chicago Public Library over 15 years ago, nods to Chance\u2019s new music as a promise fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe direction that music went [with <em>The Big Day<\/em>] wasn\u2019t what a lot of his fans wanted, and they let them know that they didn\u2019t like that music,\u201d Jenkins conveys. \u201cI think that\u2019s a part of why people are so excited about this music now. It\u2019s a lot better. [<em>Star Line<\/em>] feels like a return to something that Chance has championed and is really good at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chance says he feels lighter now that his new album is out in the world. \u201cWhenever you\u2019re deep in the creative process, at a certain point it starts to take toll on your schedule, your body, your relationships, just ways of thinking,\u201d he says during a follow-up phone call from Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport three days after the album\u2019s release. \u201cYou\u2019re going back to the stuff that you wrote days ago, months ago, years ago and reevaluating it. And then, once it\u2019s out and it\u2019s like a flat thing, you get to really see it for the finalized, executed beauty that it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walking through the streets of Chicago after his album dropped, Chance can feel <em>Star Line\u00a0<\/em>come to life; he recalls hearing two cars play \u201cRide.\u201d In a city marred by the more recent deaths of Juice Wrld and King Von, and the arrest of Lil Durk, he\u2019s not lost on the significance of his return to his hometown, where he once donated $1 million to support public schools. \u201cI think people are glad that somebody is being celebrated and recognized for telling our stories and the whole story,\u201d Chance affirms. \u201cIt gives people a sense of nostalgia to feel a win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the award-winning artist is looking ahead. He wants to continue his Writings on the Wall series, which he launched in 2024. Chance calls it an audio-visual presentation with lighting and projections that has allowed thousands of fans to experience his new album in a more immersive fashion. His goal is to bring that exhibit to thousands more.<\/p>\n<p>On past songs like \u201cParadise,\u201d he rapped about potentially running for mayor of Chicago\u2014 maybe that\u2019ll happen one day\u2014but these days, he\u2019s focused on building his rap constituency. \u201cWhat I feel brave in and feel like I have is an incredibly sharp and lethal sword: writing raps and doing interviews,\u201d he offers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s on the road again, too. September kicked off Chance\u2019s We Back Tour, a 15-city trek going from Houston to Los Angeles. \u201cI\u2019m really excited to meet new people,\u201d he says. He wants to reconnect with longtime fans, too. \u201cIt\u2019s been six years since I dropped [<em>The Big Day<\/em>], so I meet fans that are like, \u2018I was in fourth or fifth grade when you dropped it. I\u2019m in high school now.\u2019\u201d The rap ace will be meeting and greeting through October.<\/p>\n<p>While he brings his sound to the stage, Chance also has a legal battle on his hands. Five years ago, his former manager, Pat Corcoran, hit Chance with a $3 million lawsuit for allegedly failing to honor their work agreement. Chance, who initially fired Corcoran after the release of <em>The Big Day<\/em>, then filed his own lawsuit a year later, alleging that Corcoran \u201cbreached his fiduciary responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth has only continued, with Corcoran demanding to be paid for the unpaid royalties stipulated by a verbal agreement with Chance. In March, an Illinois judge denied Chance\u2019s motion for a summary judgment in the matter, so the case is now headed to trial. At press time, no date has been set, but Chance\u2019s legal team has continued to deny that there is any validity to Corcoran\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>In a legal sense, Chance will have to prove himself in court. Outside of it, he seems more invested in leveling up his craft than things as petty as proving people wrong\u2014even if he understands why fans would want him to do so. For supporters who grew up with Chance, it was hard to live with internet gossip and claims of a fall off. The hope is, for now, they won\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people felt like people were playing with my name, it hurt them,\u201d Chance says. \u201c[They] wanted me to put out a body of work that would feel like I was stepping on the haters. I always want to do right by the people that love me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sifting through fresh inspiration, Chance The Rapper\u2019s latest era feels like a clear answer to that challenge.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Listen to Chance The Rapper&#8217;s <em>Star Line<\/em> Album<\/h3>\n<p><em>The fall 2025 issue of XXL magazine featuring Chance The Rapper&#8217;s interview\u00a0is available to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.xxlmag.com\/products\/xxl-magazine-fall-2025-issue\" target=\"_blank\">purchase here<\/a>. 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