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Chance The Rapper reflected on what his stage name means to him, and why he’s been seriously considering a different, albeit similar, moniker.
Chance The Rapper recently stopped by the Tea Time podcast with Raven-Symoné and Miranda Maday to talk about his career’s history, his home city of Chicago, and much more. Amid his tour for the tenth anniversary of Coloring Book, though, he’s been seriously considering a big change to his artistic presentation. We may be calling Chance something different at some point, although it will still be similar to his stage name today. Chancelor Jonathan Bennett might just go by a simpler name.
At the 20-minute, 41-second mark of the YouTube video below, Maday asked the Chicago MC about the intention behind his stage name and playing with the idea of what a “rapper” is. Chance had an interesting perspective, and he made the revelation of the name change during this segment.
He said a girl from his high school gave him his moniker, which people told him to change throughout his career because he was becoming “more than a rapper.” The 33-year-old spoke on always wanting to connect to hip-hop no matter what he does, carrying it the same way it carried him.
“I’ve been thinking about changing my name… I’m going to take off the ‘Chance.’ I just want to be ‘The Rapper,'” he revealed. “It’s been something I’ve been thinking about a lot. I just really love the art form, I really love words. I think the greatest rappers, like myself, are etymologists and linguists at heart… And I think the ‘Chance’ part, I give a lot of vulnerability and looks into my life and what’s going on in my life… And I don’t love that as much now as I love just working within the genre and attacking things that aren’t necessarily so close to me sometimes.”
“My favorite rappers were vulnerable,” the “You Can Always Come Back Home” artist shared. “These people talk about their lives. But I also really love when they critique the state, or plan for a better future, or just do wordplay. Those things that aren’t so intrinsically tied to their existence, I like that too. When I’m working within the art form, sometimes, it’s good to just make a song that’s not about what I did that day… Sometimes it’s good to hold things just for me and my family as opposed to making it all fodder for the masses.”
