Chance the Rapper’s Rejection of Sanctimony
The Chicago star’s four new songs complicate and extend the savior narrative around him.
Chance the Rapper has bought Chicagoist, a local-news publication whose parent company shockingly shuttered last year after the staff voted to unionize. The injection of cash into the endangered and important trade of neighborhood journalism marks the latest in a line of apparent good deeds by the 25-year-old Chancelor Bennett. The rapper whose music preaches Christian love and forgiveness is headlining the Special Olympics. He has donated a million dollars to Chicago Public Schools. He has chaperoned field trips,.
