Chance the Rapper’s First Week Projections For ‘Star Line’ Are Here

Chance the Rapper released his new album, Star Line, last week — and the first week sale projections have now arrived.

According to reports, the rapper’s first project in six years will debut inside the top 20 of the Billboard 200 with 22,000 units sold in its first week.

Chance’s debut studio album, The Big Day, which dropped in 2019, debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 with 108,000 units sold in its first week.

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Since then, it’s been a long six-year break between albums. Chance’s sophomore LP features appearances from Young Thug, Jazmine Sullivan, Joey Badass, BJ the Chicago Kid, Jamila Woods, Vic Mensa and others.

To go along with the new body of work, Chance announced the upcoming And We Back Tour, which begins on September 26, with stops in Houston, New York, Chicago and Las Vegas, before it wraps up in Los Angeles on October 20.

On “Drapetomania,” one of the standout songs from Star Line, Chance raps about his perspective on immigration, spitting: “Tiffany fein in a blue box/401K in a shoe box/Her favorite rapper named 2Pac/Love 2Pac ’cause he shot two cops/I got a 9 millimeter called Thug Life/I got a new chain, it say ‘FUCK ICE.’“

Chance elaborated on the inspiration behind the chain during an interview on The Cruz Show.

“I feel like the radical — the ability to use your words like a sword and speak freely and to speak for people that don’t have necessarily as loud of a voice is, like, those are all things that I learned from 2Pac, who my mother made me listen to,” Chance explained. “She didn’t have to make me, but she put me on at a very young age.”

Chance then gave his perspective on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that are happening across the country.

“It’s disgusting. I think we’re just in a space where people are afraid to, I guess, really fight the system,” he said. “Like, this is a country that’s actually built on bloody revolutions and … radical thought and self-determination, and sometimes I think we make that such a historic thing or such a in-the-past kind of thing that we forget that, like, we’re a country built on fighting the system and fighting the power.”

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