“Never told this to anyone,” says Chance the Rapper, recounting in a revealing GQ profile how a scary period during his girlfriend’s pregnancy last year helped strengthen their relationship and restore his faith in God.
He says touring and merch sales are solid and that he’ll never participate in the “dick-swinging contest” of signing to a label.
He appreciated the benediction. But also: “I’m thinking, like, damn, I don’t even know if God likes rap! You know what I’m saying? Is she praying that I fail at everything I’m trying to do?”
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He will admit to some questionable decision-making during this time. He worked for actual months on a cover of the theme song to the animated TV show Arthur.
“I was just fucking tweaking. I was a Xan-zombie, fucking not doing anything productive and just going through relationship after relationship after relationship.”
“We’d very loosely and playfully daydreamed about getting somewhere to live/work for a little while, but never discussed specifics. We wanted to work together on something, so Chance invited me to the house he said he’d rented for him and his friends. . . . I turned up and he told me my name was on the lease, which was creepy because I’d never signed anything. I’d never and still have never heard of Koi Kastle, had never seen a picture of the home and had never been to or known the existence of the area it was in. Then he went on MTV and said we were living together, and so to this day many people still think we are.”
The Obamas—and particularly Malia—have Coloring Book on heavy rotation in the White House.
