CHANCE THE RAPPER

I’m being gaslit by the exact same people who, let’s be honest, overhyped his earlier work

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i don't know about gaslighting but this def feels like he went from overrated to underrated

Coloring Book was my favorite album of 2016, but I never really liked Acid Rap either. I guess he is very hit and miss for me, lol.

Acid Rap and 10 Day were both better than Coloring book imo. Still haven't listened to this one yet though.

this album is great and i love listening to it. “five year plan” is AMAZING

i'm pretty sure "get a bag" is better than "sunday candy"

i feel that way also ... calboy sounds good on it too

I really like this album? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ok this is really growing on me now, the production's so gorgeous and there are plenty of hooks they're just a different vibe to the sort of bigness of a lot of colouring book so that + the length made it hard to really get into at first

latest favourite is "ballin flossin"

Ballin flossin is a highlight for me too. Also big fish — gucci sounds great on that

I do want to apologize to Fred who complained that this album wasn’t corny enough which suggests tho we have v different aesthetic criteria he did listen to this album more than 99% of reviewers — this is def his least corny album at least possibly barring the dark parts of acid rap

I haven't read the reviews but I was pleased that Chance has toned things down a bit? I remember enjoying Coloring Book but also finding it exhausting and I didn't return to it after a few run-throughs.

Also the dark parts of Acid Rap are probably my favourite things he's done.

most of the complaints i've seen have been "this is waaay too corny why does he love his wife so much lol" and i don't get that at all when colouring book went full on "god is great!" for a few tracks and this one is generally chiller and a little more low-key musically too

only a few tracks in and his verses are really good but the choruses are mostly deflating

arent the first two hooks just john legend and ben gibbard

Yes and they’re the reason I had a bad taste in my mouth the first time through

idgi the hook on "all day long" is tight and gibbard really works on "do you remember"

this is a very me thing to post but the gibbard hook is like something green gartside would sing

I’m finally listening to this album now, and... I don’t really understand why so many people are so mad at it? Sure, there are moments that are a bit off, like the white dude screaming on the title track. But for the most part it sounds pretty good.

It reminds me of Three feet high and rising in a way that very few modern rap albums do, lol.

man, i dunno what you're hearing there! i hear a lotta different approaches but none of them sound particularly good to me. More power to you for finding something you like though!

Chance really walked into "wife guy" meme territory, huh

I'm DJing a friend's wedding in a few weeks, what song from this do I play?

Probably several tracks but “get a bag”

I was going to listen to this but then I saw the name "CocoRosie"

One of the funniest ways in which chance ended up at this point, where some of his best material is treated as the worst shit in the world, is that there’s no singular cause... instead it’s like a laundry list of little things, down to him putting cocorosie on his album, a self own so specific that explaining it to someone off ilx requires linking to fifteen year old articles about long forgotten hipster parties ... it really has been career death by a thousand paper cuts

cocorosie only show up for a few seconds too lol

had never thought about comparing gibbard to gartside but their voices do have a similar weird quality to them and i can hear what brad means

it also might explain a reason why i don't really connect with either singer

Timing-wise, he sure walked headfirst into 'wife guy' meme territory

Jordan I'd stick to his bigger/older hits for a wedding gig but that's just me

he should have rolled into the 'i love my wife, iigh' stuff tbh, sold shirts or whatever

still, a great album

if it has a weak point to me its that he's pulled back somewhat from certain kinds of vulnerable specifics, which i understand on a level of what fame does to a person, but its unfortunate it happened on an album that is so defined by personal relationships ... nonetheless, great songs

the stuff that doesn't really work for me on this is down to "hot shower" (which is fun and goofy i guess but his voice is really grating on it), the part on the title track where francis yells a bunch, and "5 year plan" (which isn't really bad just relatively dull and saccharine?)

in addition to all the wife complaints i keep seeing people complain about the production being bland and lifeless which is even more baffling, i really don't know what people are listening to.

twitter really hates this guy now huh. he's on that wave where no matter what he does someone retweets with a 'look at this dork' and everyone piles on the hate

I never even got around to the last one but find the ott blowback kinda sad.

drake toosie slide has had the “salmon gucci slides” song from this album stuck in my head and it still cracks me up that chance and nicki got together for the first time as a voltron of once beloved celebs who suddenly became twitter villains

ha otm. honestly this is my favorite project of his at this point.

Yikes.

I finally got the answer now. I understand. Yall trust Biden more than yall trust Ye. I think I understand why, I just don’t feel the same way.

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) July 13, 2020

With most celebrities, if I see them trending my first thoughts are "Oh no, did they die?" or "Oh no, are they racist/sexist/homophobic?"

With Chance, it's "Oh no, did he say something dumb about Kanye?"

— DJP (@djperry1973) July 13, 2020

Hi, @chancetherapper. If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.

— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) December 5, 2020

Damn RIP

avoid confusion with Chance the Painter

I am now Dionne the Singer.

— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) December 5, 2020

dionne THEE singer imo

Realized on reading this thread that I'd vaguely (and wrongly) thought of it as a really random Being There reference.

“I cannot stop thinking about this”

new single is pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnO2HDmT1D8

Yeah! Heard it on the radio today, I like it

New track from Dionne the Singer and Chance the Rapper:

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