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Chancellor Jonathan Bennett (born April 16, 1993), known professionally as Chance the Rapper , is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, philanthropist and record producer from the West Chatham Neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. In 2013, he started getting recognition after releasing his second mix album, Acid Rap . Apart from his solo career, he is a member of Collective SaveMoney collective (along with collaborator Vic Mensa). He has worked as a lead vocalist for the band The Social Experiment; they released their album Surf in May 2015.

In May 2016, Bennett released his third mixtape Dyeing Book for critical acclaim. This earned him three Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album. Coloring Book became the first streaming-first album to receive a nomination for, and won, a Grammy.

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Chancellor Jonathan Bennett was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Ken Williams-Bennett, was an assistant to Chicago's former mayor Harold Washington and then Senator Barack Obama. His mother, Lisa Bennett, is the secretary for the Illinois Attorney General's office. Bennett grew up in a middle-class neighborhood of West Chatham on Chicago's South Side. When Bennett was sixteen, his father started working at the Department of Labor during President Barack Obama's first term. Bennett personally met President Obama in his youth and discussed his aspirations to become a rapper, which Obama responded with "words". Bennett will initially move to Washington, D.C. following Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election even though the plan ultimately failed. Bennett attended Jones College High School where he was a member of the Jewish Student Union. During his time in high school, Bennett did not get good grades and was often suspended.

Bennett's interest in music started from Michael Jackson, which he exclusively listened to in cassettes up to fifth grade. Growing up, Bennett's parents constantly play music, including Billie Holiday and Sam Cooke as well as other artists in the jazz and gospel genres. Bennett started listening to hip-hop after hearing "Through the Wire" by Kanye West on the radio while walking through Hyde Park, Chicago. After learning the song on the Western debut album The College Dropout , Bennett bought the album, making it the first hip-hop album Bennett listened to. Bennett thought West was very influential to him and said he was inspired to start knocking by the West. Bennett and West meet each other in August 2014 at the Bonnaroo Music Festival.

Bennett started knocking in sixth grade when his cousin let him start using his studio. In his first year at Jones College High School, Bennett formed a duo of hip-hop duo with a friend. Many of Chance's early shows took place at the Lymic Lyricist Loft at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago. After taking second place in the local songwriting contest, Bennett met with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley who enjoyed the music. Bennett spent much of his year and a small number of his senior year writing drafts for his debut project, 10 Days , which was released after Bennett was suspended for ten days after being caught smoking marijuana.

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Music career

2011-2012: Early career and 10 Days

In high school Jones College Prep, some of his teachers make fun of his aspirations to become a musician. After a 10-day suspension in early 2011, during his senior year, having a marijuana on campus, Bennett recorded his first long project, a mixtape titled 10 Days (also known as # 10days ). In December 2011, he released a song titled "Windows", and announced his project 10 Days . In February 2012, Bennett was highlighted as one of the "10 New Chicago Rappers to Look For" by Complex magazine. Bennett said he spent "about eight months recording, writing and connecting from hunger to putting things out". Bennett released mixtape on April 3, 2012, and has since been downloaded more than 500,000 times via Datpiff's shared-mixtape site. Mixtape was well received locally and helped Bennett establish relationships with producers such as Chuck Inglish, Kenny Jame $, and Blended Babies. The mixtape also caught the attention of the Forbes magazine, which featured it in the Free Tunes publication column.

2012-2015: Acid Rap and The Social Experiment

In July 2012, Bennett appeared in the sixth compilation of Childish Gambino's fragile, Royalty , on the "They Do not Like Me" track. Gambino will continue to ask Bennett to join his first North American concert tour as his opening act.

On April 30, 2013, Bennett released their second mixtape, Acid Rap , in DatPiff. The record has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. Bennett lists guest appearances from Twista, Vic Mensa, Saba, BJ the Chicago Kid, Action Bronson, Childish Gambino and Ab-Soul. Acid Rap was well received by critics. At Metacritic, mixtape received an average score of 86, based on 21 critics, demonstrating "universal recognition". It was nominated for Best Mixtape at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. On May 6, 2013, the song "Paranoia" (produced by Nosaj Thing), once originally featured as a hidden song on Acid Rap , was released as a contribution to Yours Truly and Adidas original '"Songs from Scratch" series.

In June 2013, Bennett was featured in an advertisement for MySpace as part of its launch, along with fellow American rapper Mac Miller, Pharrell Williams, and Schoolboy Q, among others. In July 2013, Acid Rap debuted at number 63 on Billboard Album Top R & amp; B/Hip-Hop, due to downloads in iTunes and Amazon. In August 2013, Bennett performed at the Chicago music festival, Lollapalooza. Acid Rap is listed on some of the 50 best albums from the list of 2013, including 26 for Rolling Stone , the 12th on the Pitchfork list, and the 4th rank by Complex . It's also listed as one of 50 Favorite NPR Music Albums of 2013. Bennett embarked on the Social Experiment Tour in Champaign, Illinois on October 25, 2013, until December 19, 2013.

In March 2014, Bennett appeared in an online video for Dockers, promoting a brand spring line, where Bennett talks about his style, likes to make music, and what it's like to live in Los Angeles. On May 5, 2014, XXL revealed Bennett was included in their annual yearly class, along with newcomer colleagues, Isaiah Rashad, Ty Dolla $ ign, Rich Homie Quan, Vic Mensa, August Alsina, Troy Ave, Kevin Gates, Lil Bibby, Jon Connor, Lil Durk, and Jarren Benton. During the fall of 2014, Bennett and other artists participated in the Verge Campus tour. In November 2014, Bennett was awarded the "Best Youth of the Year" Award from Chicago by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

In January 2015, Bennett was listed at number 7 on the music list "Forbes 30 Under 30" 2015. In March 2015, Bennett released a short film titled Happy , directed by Colin Tilley. sir. Happy centered around the main character, named Victor, who struggled from depression and attempted suicide. After many unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide, he finds Mr. Happy. On April 30, 2015, Bennett gave a lecture at Harvard University's Hiphop Archive & amp; Research institutions.

Just before midnight on May 28, 2015, Surf was released for free at the iTunes America store as iTunes Exclusive. The album received high praise from music critics, received an aggregate score of 86 on the Metacritic review site, which showed "universal recognition", based on 17 reviews. In June 2015, Bennett performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in a superjam concert collection. He also made guest shows with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, onstage with Earth, Wind & amp; Fire. On July 19, 2015, Bennett and Lil B announced that they were recording a collaborative mixtape. Both rapper released it on August 5th, entitled Free (Based on Freestyles Mixtape) .

On October 13, 2015, Bennett released a video for the new song, titled "Family Matters", on its website. The song, which shares the same name as the autumn tour of 2015 with DRAM, Metro Boomin, Towkio (and Hiatus Kaiyote on a certain date), is reworking Kanye West's "Family Business" from his 2004 album The College Dropped out . A few days before this, a video appeared online from Bennett that featured the new song live, ending the song by saying the words "third mixtape", prompting many to believe that the wait might end soon for the next release. On October 27, 2015, Bennett launched a new song, titled "Angels" featuring Saba, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. On December 12, 2015, Bennett appeared on Saturday Night Live on the new song, Somewhere in Paradise.

2016-present: Coloring Book and debut album

In 2016, Bennett was a prominent character on Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo , writing together and appearing on several songs, including "Ultralight Beam", "Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1", "Famous "," Feedback ", and" Wave ". According to the West, the album's release was delayed due to Bennett's desire for "Waves" to make the final cut of the album. Bennett is also featured on the track titled "Need to Know" in Macklemore & amp; Ryan Lewis album Unruly Mess I Made . The following March, Bennett is featured in Skrillex remix of Hundred Waters 'Show Me Love'. On April 16, 2016, Opportunities and other musicians, including Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, Janelle MonÃÆ'¡e, and J. Cole, met with President Obama at the White House to discuss the initiative of My Brother's Keeper Challenge.

On May 12, 2016, Chance's third mixtape, Coloring Book (promoted as Opportunity 3 ), was released, streaming exclusively on Apple Music. In the first week, mixtape was streamed over 57.3 million times, equivalent to 38,000 units sold, debuting at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart. This became the first release to map only in the stream. The mixtape was greeted with widespread praise from music critics, and on the Metacritic review aggregator site, received an average score of 90, based on 20 critics, demonstrating "universal recognition".

On July 13, at the ESPY Awards 2016, along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he performed a tribute song entitled "I Was A Rock" to the late Muhammad Ali. On August 16, 2016, Chance wrote the single "We the People" paired in a Nike ad titled "Unlimited Together", a film directed by Hiro Murai. The second ad was released on October 4 by NestlÃÆ'Â © to promote the Kit Kat bar, which starred Chance's costume that mixed their jingle back. On September 15th, 2016, Opportunity embarked on her colorful coloring tour in San Diego.

Bennett announced an Exceptional Class Tour with an event called the Magnificent Color Day Festival at Chicago's Guarantee Field, with line ups including Lil Wayne, Skrillex and Lil Uzi Vert, which took place on September 24, 2016, becoming the first ever music festival in US Cellular Field. Bennett launched a joint campaign with rapperradio.com to get his music on radio on August 17, 2016.

In September 2016, H & amp; M asked Bennett to name their new campaign. In November 2016, he went on a world tour of Colorful Coloring, but canceled the rest of his show in the European leg for personal reasons. In November 2016, Bennett announced during an interview with DJ Semtex that he was working on his debut album. Bennett was offered the chance to sign with the GOOD Music GOODS in December 2016, though he refused due to his popularity as an independent artist and the freedom to not stick to the label. In an August interview about his debut album, Bennett said he might sell the album, a departure from the free distribution format of previous projects. After a leaked report claiming that SoundCloud's audio distribution platform was close to bankruptcy and had laid off most of its employees, Bennett had a phone call with SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung. After a phone call, Bennett logged onto Twitter, posted that SoundCloud is "here to stay". It was later reported that Bennett merely reflected on what Ljung had published in a press release after the leak. Soon afterwards, Bennett released SoundCloud's exclusive track with Young Thug called "Big B" to benefit the platform, a surprise move planned in response to SoundCloud's bankruptcy leak.

In July 2017, Bennett was nominated for an Emmy Award for his "Last Christmas" song performed on Saturday Night Live. She shared nominations with Kenan Thompson, Eli Brueggemann, and Will Stephen in the category for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. In August 2017, Bennett underwent the third day of Lollapalooza at Grant Park in his hometown of Chicago. His performance attracted many viewers with some estimates making him the biggest show in the event's history.

In November 2017, Bennett curated and led the Obama Foundation community event at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. The event covered the inaugural Obama Summit event featuring special guests including former President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Andra Day, Gloria Estefan, Aziz Ansari, Lena Waithe, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more.

In 2018, she appeared in "Logout", a song from Saba's album Care for Me .

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Arts

Music style

Bennett has stated in interviews with XXL and that Kanye West, James Brown, MC Hammer, Prince, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Young Thug, Lil Wayne, Esham, Eminem, Souls of Mischief and Freestyle Fellowship have influenced him. When asked about the influence of the gospel in his music, he also stated that Kirk Franklin is one of his favorite artists, and his favorite composers.

Bennett's music has been described as versatile and uplifting. The music generally contains melodies and jazz-inspired influences of the gospel. Bennett's lyrics usually have references to Christian theology, his struggle with his faith and his upbringing. Opportunities combine chorus into his music to try to maximize the Gospel tone. Sharde 'Chapman on HuffPost has described Bennett's lyrics as "creative" and "colorful".

Mode

Bennett fashion style is a big part of his public image, and he has been interested in the industry. Bennett has designed hats for the Chicago White Sox. The Hollywood Reporter says that Bennett is "redefining fashion" in style that generally wears overalls and against traditional hip-hop fashion norms. Bennett is dressed in a suit intended to imitate Michael Jackson at the BET 2017 Award. Bennett is seen wearing Thom Browne outfit at the Grammy 2017.

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Personal life

Bennett lives in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Bennett once shared a home in North Hollywood with James Blake. Describing his time in North Hollywood, Bennett calls it "lawless". After graduating from high school, Bennett attended a community college for a week before dropping out of school. Bennet has taken many drugs during his lifetime, including LSD and Xanax, but has since moved away from them.

Family

Her younger brother, Taylor Bennett, is also a rapper. The brothers started knocking at the same time and had similar styles. Both rappers also get inspiration from the original Chicago citizen Kanye West.

In July 2015, Bennett announced that he was expecting his first child with his girlfriend Kirsten Corley, whom he began dating in 2013. In September 2015, Corley gave birth to their daughter, Kensli. Kensli was kept away from social media until December 31, 2016, when Bennett posted a photo on Instagram. In May 2016, after they stopped living together, Corley wanted the court to declare Bennett as their daughter's father, which required her to pay child support.

In February 2017, Bennett's child support case was reopened in an effort to complete child support requirements and parenting schedules when Bennett and Corley moved to a separate residence. The Chicago Sun-Times publishes an article about a dispute between the two in March 2017. Bennett replied to an article saying, "You should do your work and do not worry about how good my family is. Just a friendly reminder. Don let anyone get between you and your family. "On March 21, 2017, disputes were settled out of court.

Bennett spends much of his free time with his daughter, and often takes him for a walk. These include the Chicago Bulls basketball game, meeting with Obama and exercising.

Confidence

Bennett is a Christian and refers to Jesus Christ in many of his songs. Bennett was raised as a Christian by his grandmother but later fell out of confidence. He rediscovered his faith when his daughter was born with an atrial flutter. Speaking of the situation, Bennett said, "I just pray a lot, you know, and need lots of angels and just look at the dirt in a very direct way, and... you know, God bless everything, it works so well." Bennett writes in Twitter after the situation on January 31, 2016, "Today is the last day of my old life, the last day of smoking.Go to church for help All things may happen through Christ who strengthens me."

Bennett has called himself a Christian rapper after releasing his mixtape Dyeing Book . Bennett believes that God should be grateful for his blessing and his career to be a success.

Activism and politics

Bennett is an independent voter leaning to the left. His father worked for Barack Obama as a presidential candidate and as a helper. His father also worked on Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2008 and was Rahm Emanuel's assistant. Despite his family ties to the Democratic Party, Bennett is an independent voter, although he has a history of supporting Democrats. Bennett volunteered with Barack Obama's reelection campaign by phonebanking in Hyde Park, Chicago and has given a speech at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

In November 2014, Bennett was named the Best Youth of the Year by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Bennett held an open mic night in collaboration with the Chicago Public Library, a twenty-two night open mic held, one of which drew the presence of Vic Mensa and Kanye West. In December 2015, Bennett joined the "Winterest 2016" nonprofit in providing suits and other clothing to homeless citizens in Chicago. Bennett was able to collect $ 117,571. Bennett also started a new non-profit called "Social Work" in September 2016, which aims to give Chicago elementary school students "an opportunity to learn through music and show off that knowledge at the end of the summer." A few months earlier in June 2016, Bennett had organized the first Youth in the Park, a free festival that attracted the attendance of 3,300.

Bennett has been actively fighting to combat armed violence in his hometown of Chicago and in 2014, along with his father, promoted the "#SaveChicago" campaign. The campaign sought to stop gun violence during Memorial Day Weekend, and saw Chicago go 42 hours without firing. Bennett met President Obama at the White House on April 16, 2016, to discuss My Brother's Keeper Challenge, an initiative of the Federal Government of the United States to promote intervention by civil leaders in the lives of young people of color to overcome their unique challenges and to promote racial justice, with other musicians, including Alicia Keys, Busta Rhymes, Janelle MonÃÆ'¡e, J. Cole, and others. Bennett started his Twitter campaign for May 23, 2016 using # May23 to stop gun violence for 42 hours.

On March 6, 2017, after a meeting with Governor Bruce Rauner that did not go well only a few days earlier, Bennett announced his intention to donate $ 1,000,000 to the Chicago Public Schools to help offset the lack of government funds provided. After this, a movement emerged to try and inspire Bennett to run for Chicago mayor. It is supported by fellow media personalities including Drake musicians.

Bennett is an overt critic of President Donald Trump, has criticized him many times and compared it to former President Barack Obama. During the 2016 Presidential election, Bennett said he was not afraid of Trump's presidency. When asked why GQ, Bennett said "You have to understand, like, shit has gone awry, right? Like," Making America Great Again ", that's not the real thing because dirt does not really turn into [middle-class white]". Bennett supported Democratic Hillary Clinton's candidate on October 6, 2016, expressing concerns about the way he was treated in the media and also stated that he could "fix Chicago" and lead "march" to a number of polling stations with thousands of Chicago residents. After Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, Bennett said "Trump will win, anyone in the world who is surprised by the election of Donald Trump has ignored the racism, and the tides and patterns of American history and world history." In February 2017, Bennett posted is open on Twitter that he is worried the President of Trump will change the constitutional limit. Bennett compared Trump's appeal to Chicago to "fight". In August 2017, Bennett claimed to have "a bigger voice than Donald Trump".

After the Weinstein scandal, Bennett tweeted in reply to an article entitled "In Wake of Weinstein, Men Wonder If Hugging a Woman Still Good" in which Bennett says "Gross. Do not." In March 2018, Bennett created controversy when he tweeted after gun control, saying "Is Pistol Control including the police?" and spoke against Heineken's advertisement which he called "Very racist."

After tweet Kanye West defended Donald Trump and announced his support in April 2018, Bennett tweeted "Blacks Do not Have to Be Democrats." The tweet garnered controversy from Bennett's main left-wing fanbase. Trump then tweeted thanked Bennett even though Bennett dismissed Trump's praise.

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Discography

Mixtapes

• 10 Hari (2012)
• Acid Rap (2013)
• Buku Mewarnai (2016)

with The Social Experiment

• Surfers (2015)

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Awards and nominations

BET grace

BET Hip Hop Awards

Emmy Award

Grammy Award

iHeartRadio Music Awards

MOBOX Award

MTV Video Music Awards

MTV Video Music Awards Japan

NAACP Image Award

The Soul Train Music Award

Teen Choice Awards

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Movieography

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Concert tour

• Extraordinary Coloring World Tour (2016)
• Be Encouraged Tour (2017)

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Rapper Discography Opportunity in Discogs

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