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Good Words with Kirk Franklin

Chance the Rapper

Good Words with Kirk Franklin

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music, Religion & Spirituality

4.9946 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Franklin is joined by Chicago rapper, activist, and all-around family man, Chance the Rapper, to talk about his faith, his upbringing, and his growth from a troubled high school student on his first mixtape to a loving husband on his latest album. Chance also goes into the issues ailing the Windy City and gives a firsthand account of what it was like out on the streets during the George Floyd protests. If you want to support any of the Chicago organizations Chance mentioned in this episode of Good Words, You can visit Assata's Daughters' official website at https://www.assatasdaughters.org/ As well as GoodKids MadCity's official website at https://www.gkmcenglewood.com/ You can also find out more about Chance's own non-profit organization, SocialWorks, by visiting https://www.socialworkschi.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I really have to ask you before we start seriously because I'm always

0:03.2

concerned about the people that I love during this season you know during this

0:07.5

winter season light-skinned people really struggle because they don't they don't get a lot of light and I know that you're a member of the LAA, you know, Light Skin Association of America and so I'm just wondering, you know, how, you know, how are you doing during this season? I'm just wondering, you know, how you doing during this season?

0:23.9

I'm living, I'm all right.

0:26.4

It is tough for us in these cold seasons,

0:29.5

but I'm faring pretty well.

0:31.9

I will get some sun eventually. You're crazy.

0:35.0

I love it. I love it. I love it. You know hey brother I'm praying for you brother. I'm praying for you brother.

0:41.0

I'm praying for you brother. Brothers and sisters,

0:46.0

my name is Kirk Franklin

0:50.0

and I come to give you good words.

1:00.0

Let's go.

1:09.8

So brothers and sisters, I want you to know that in the culture there's so many times that we just kind of throw away titles and we make them so passive that they don't have as much value as they may have

1:15.2

had back in a certain period of time.

1:17.7

But today this is a real one.

1:20.1

This is a real conversation with somebody that God has given me this type of agape love that is real.

1:26.6

It is real and deep and it is sincere.

1:28.8

My pride for this young man, my support for this young man, how I light up like a big brother when I see him just achieving

1:38.3

so many levels of success in his career, I feel like that I've had a chance to plant seeds and I've had a chance to see some

1:44.4

things grow and there's a level of humility that comes with that that makes me feel a

1:49.6

genuine brotherly love for this young man.

1:53.2

And I know that in the season of male toxicity

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