{"id":2208547,"date":"2025-12-22T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2208547"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:59:06","slug":"chance-the-rappers-latest-explores-faith-masculinity-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chance-the-rappers-latest-explores-faith-masculinity-blackness\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper\u2019s latest explores faith, masculinity, Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/4if1BvvWfmG4go4uAmow8h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chance the Rapper (Self-released, 2025)<\/h3>\n<p>I am 45 years old, so my taste in music, especially hip-hop, is suspect to my teenage son\u2019s generation. He likes the emotionally turbulent distortion of underground rappers such as OsamaSon, Playboi Carti, and Travis Scott. I prefer thoughtful lyrics and soundscapes rooted in neo-soul, gospel, blues, and jazz, from acts such as The Roots, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest.<\/p>\n<p>So there are few disagreements between us as deep as over Chance the Rapper. I liked Chance\u2019s 2012 <em>Acid Rap<\/em> (especially the track \u201cAcid Rain\u201d), loved Chance\u2019s 2016 mixtape <em>Coloring Book<\/em> (the entire beautiful mess), and was disappointed by the 2019 follow-up, <em>The Big Day<\/em>. (At least we agreed on that one.) I\u00a0had mostly written Chance off. I shouldn\u2019t have: <em>Star Line<\/em> is an excellent album by a singular artist who takes risks in his own idiosyncratic corner of hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p>Starline explores the complexity of Chance\u2019s Chicago Black pride along with his ever-roaming, kaleidoscopic sound, all filtered through his heart overflowing with energy, creativity, and compassion. Not just with the album title, which evokes Marcus Garvey, but with the narrative clarity and lyrical introspection into maturity, faith, masculinity, and Blackness. Tracks such as \u201cThe Negro Problem\u201d and \u201cNo More Old Men\u201d shine bright, along with the emotionally existential \u201cSpeed of Light\u201d and \u201cSpace &amp; Time,\u201d not to mention the questions of faith raised by \u201cLetters\u201d and \u201cJust a Drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if <em>Star Line<\/em> will have the same staying power as <em>Coloring Book<\/em>, but it doesn\u2019t need to. Chance is not only back in form lyrically, rhythmically, and sonically; he has matured and developed his artistry beyond the\u00a0high point of 2016 and the letdown of 2019. He has created a solid album in a way only Chance can. And maybe, just maybe, my son will agree.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3. No More Old Men - Chance The Rapper | STAR LINE || Standard Lyric Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjnqoN4Ft_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><em>This article also appears in the\u00a0November 2025 issue\u00a0of\u00a0U.S. Catholic\u00a0(Vol. 90, No. 11, page 9).\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.uscatholic.org\/USC\/?f=paid\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to the magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"herald-da\">\n<div class=\"g g-10\">\n<div class=\"g-dyn a-342 c-1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MzQyLDEwLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/uscatholic.org\/gyapodcast\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uscatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GYA-Podcast-728-x-237-S6-b.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '447091522308915');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uscatholic.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance the Rapper (Self-released, 2025) I am 45 years old, so my taste in music, especially hip-hop, is suspect to my teenage son\u2019s generation. 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