CHANCE THE RAPPER

not even the worst nickname in the band imo, the drummer goes by Stix

saw chance last night in Phoenix, pretty good cathartic show after this week. only complaint is that, during the 4 acid rap tracks in the show, he barely rapped. Like he would only do the first third of each line (if even that) and let the audience finish the rest while he ran around the stage like a madman.

Coloring Book is great but has too many slow songs esp in the front half, needs more stuff along the tempo of All Night and No Problems. i get the gospel theme but chance is so good at wholesome pump up jams should be more of those

I haven't returned to Coloring Book nearly as often as I have Acid Rap, possibly because "All We Got" is a clunker of an opener and starting off with that track makes me want to put on something else. The amazing songs on here are amazing, though, and "Mixtape" and both "Blessings" have grown on me a lot since seeing Chance live last month

Album of the year

love this album a lot but the new Tribe is untouchable

I might actually like the Jamila Woods and Saba tapes more than CB but whatever the case, this scene/crew/not sure what to call it is amazingly fertile right now. I don't like the Noname tape as much as some others do--I find her to be dour to an extent that becomes dull--but that's also worth hearing.

I haven't listened to All We Got more than once

ATCQ It's awesome, but I feel like I've somewhat heard it before. Coloring Book is unique. The Jamila Woods tape is probably also in my top five or something. Haven't heard Saba or Noname, but the OddCouple tape was cool as well.

i haven't listened to this anywhere near as much as acid rap, tho much more than the social experiment album. i think he deviated from his core sound a little too much... i think "mixtape" is just awful, and idk if "smoke break" really works well at all.

but as far as making a single aimed at radio "no problem" is probably as good as anyone could have hoped for in terms of working on commercial and artistic terms, and "summer friends" is one of his best ever songs. i've been listening to the "blessings" reprise ever since he performed it on TV, and "angels" and "juke jam" are great too. i don't think this in my top 10 which i wouldn't have expected prior to its release but it still has its uses to me.

Jordan mostly otm, but this is probably top ten material to me based on the high points alone.

One of my fav things about Chance is those tiny little moments of vulnerability or sentimentality that he slips into nearly every song. I love the Noname album because it's loaded with even more of those. She has all these casual lines that just gut me.

Typically I don't listen to rap to feel bummed out, but she summons those feelings more effectively than any other rapper right now—the injustice of being dismissed or talked over or not having the love you give reciprocated. So her album isn't the joy bomb that Chance's is but it's a triumph of expression in its own right.

summer friends is one of the great songs of the year in any case

Summer Friends is great but I can't stand the fake Bon Iver bot. It's the album's worst recycled Kanye West trope.

isn't it actually bon iver?

it's a sample of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScYn10D2vo

yes, which actually features bon iver

yeah I know it says right there on the video

cancelled the last three dates of this European tour

had tickets for Friday :(

coloring book classic imo

bon iver should be thrown into a dumpster

somehow had avoided bon iver until now

coloring book was not as good as acid rap huh

not even close

it was better imo

ya acid rap is still his best by far

Acid Rap >>>>>>>>>>>> Coloring Book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> his management

He's his own management basically lol

despite thinking acid rap is best i think he has grown as an artist and have full belief he will best it soon. my main problem w colouring book is tempo and pacing; i love chance's giddy ecstatic overwhelming embrace the world energy and while doing a gospel album could've channeled that, instead lots of the tracks dragged

more preacher man vibes than like, explosive jubilant chorus

both so great it doesn't really matter to me.

however, kinda wish sunday candy was somewhere in coloring book.

i still think sunday candy is the best thing he's ever done

coloring book is pretty good but acid rap towers over it. but i also think acid rap is a GOAT record so

coloring book is a success tho simply for birthing a legitimate chart/rap chart hit and with a song that is legit good and doesn't betray his ethos/sound really at all

everyone loves him so i figure i'm just wrong but i find both albums completely uninteresting.

the song w/ wayne and 2 chainz is pretty weak imo

also, he gets killed on his own shit

well that is true -- but it's a very good song that was a hit

ok fine I will listen to Acid Rap again

I really love the grownup gospel positivity vibez of Coloring Book, he doesn't put a foot wrong on it imo

Huh yeah acid rap is better, just the rhymes alone

I found it interesting that Chance the Rapper is so popular and yet most of his music is really unavailable in any hard format. It is a unique and modern way of controlling his own content.

I got my Grammys in the mail. Thank you everyone who made this music with me, especially this girl right here. #ColoringBook #BestRapAlbum #butitwasamixtape #IDidItWithGod #ChanceTebow 🤷🏽‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/LLFB8PGzcf

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) October 19, 2017

it's an… unboxing video for his grammys

whenever I see this thread bumped I expect to see something like "Chance the Rapper takes over as host of Prairie Home Companion"

Like it says, 4 new songs:

https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper/sets/4-new-songs

https://theoutline.com/post/5466/chance-the-rapper-buying-chicagoist?zd=2&zi=wtmlpwtj

wala cam is so good

Chance The Rapper Clarifies He From Chicago https://t.co/CRWhDWxseq pic.twitter.com/lSaDcvVPof

— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 19, 2018

could be a headline about any rapper from any city

sometimes i find chance to be extremely annoying

The Onion better be careful. They might be next.

Wala Cam is incredible