Chicago heck of a sports town and we got someone who reps the shy hard right now

multi-grammy award winner a man of the people right there in the crowd, please welcome Chance the rapper.

I love the whole thing great to see you

great to see you great to see you take a seat hometown We're in your city.

Here we are absolutely. All right so much to talk to you about but I want to start with your new project your new album. So you haven't put out music since 2019. What inspired you the most for this project?

That's a great question. Yeah, I'm dropping my first album in a long time.

It's called Star Line. Thank you. But yeah it was it's just been

inspired by life I've been doing a lot of traveling. I went to Ghana. Yeah, to West Africa. We threw a huge free concert there a couple years ago. I've been doing a lot of just research on the interconnectivity of black folks around the world and our histories and

and kind of just putting it to music so it's been a good experience I've been getting

some love on some of the tracks that we put out we just put out stars out a couple

weeks ago and yeah it's been fun.

How has that influenced you just as a man as a black man in America seeing what we've been seeing,

you know especially over the last few years the climate that exists how does that

that whole experience influenced you? I think it mainly made me realize how

influential we can be.

A lot of the changes that we think have come in society in terms of integration,

the ending of apartheid, civil rights, a lot of those things, they present them to you as

archaic, like they happened so long ago.

And just in going to Ghana, realizing that most of the countries, all the countries on the continent weren't free from colonialism until the 60s was a crazy idea

to me and understand that those changes were made by people in their 20s and 30s that just

happened to campaign and organize and create that change.

It made me realize this stuff is very malleable.

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