Chance The Rapper Is Dropping New Album This Week, Reveals What Delayed Coloring Book Follow-Up

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Chicago rapper Chance The Rapper is back on his music grind. The hip-hop star has announced plans to drop a new album sometime this week.

In a new interview, Chance revealed his long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s The Coloring Book is dropping this week – specifically during The Special Olympics.

The musical drought may be ending, though. “I got that feeling when people do something that has a new feel to it,” he says of his new album. “I’m excited for everybody to get that. It’s going to come out just in time for the Special Olympics.” His long-discussed collaboration with West may also be closer to reality, he says. They “casually” worked on two songs a few weeks ago while Chance visited West in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where West was completing a series of albums for himself and artists such as Pusha T and Kid Cudi. (The Chicago Tribune)

The Chi-Town native also explained the delay in getting out his body of work mostly centered on collaborations issues.

“I’ve never been against selling music,” he says. “Music has value. I put my music out there for free because I wanted people to see and notice it as a beacon for what I’m doing, in terms of how unorthodox I wanted my approach and my delivery of each piece of music to be. On the other side, it’s not really difficult for me to make music and deliver it to the fans, because there are so many more platforms now, a bunch of streaming sites. The bigger concern for artists now is navigating the legal issues of owning your music, your publishing, your distribution. It has been difficult for me to release music with artists who work with the majors. A lot of stuff I’ve worked on hasn’t come out since ‘Coloring Book’ because it’s hard” when collaborating with artists limited by record deals. (Chicago Tribune)

Last month, Chance announced he would headline a 50th anniversary Special Olympics concert on July 21.

Recently, Chance revealed he had new music brewing with fellow Chicago native Kanye West.

“Working under him or working with him on his projects is crazy, but him telling me he wants to produce my album and come to Chicago and work with me. This month we’re working in Chicago.” (Windy City Live)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

SOHH.com Writer. When I'm not covering hip-hop news and announcements, I'm deep into an Audible book and eating veggies.

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