{"id":42891,"date":"2025-08-04T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/chance-the-rapper-talks-star-line-influences-at-lollapalooza\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:57:01","slug":"chance-the-rapper-talks-star-line-influences-at-lollapalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/chance-the-rapper-talks-star-line-influences-at-lollapalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Talks ‘Star Line’ Influences at Lollapalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tIt\u2019s been six years since Chance the Rapper<\/a> released his official debut album, The Big Day<\/a><\/em>, and on Aug. 15, he\u2019ll finally release his long-awaited sophomore effort, Star Line<\/em><\/a>. Speaking with Rolling Stone<\/em> backstage at Lollapalooza<\/a>, the Chicago MC says the record is steeped in travel and personal change, incorporating different life lessons, experiences, and sounds he encountered over the past several years. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGoing to Ghana, reconnecting with a lot of my family, going through relationships changing, getting divorced \u2014 there\u2019s a lot of things that happened between my last project and this day,\u201d Chance says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLike all of Chance\u2019s albums, there\u2019s plenty of his hometown of Chicago<\/a> on Star Line<\/em>, but the time he spent in Ghana, Jamaica, and various domestic locales \u2014 New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, Washington D.C., and New York City \u2014 were just as influential.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of other regions sounds,\u201d Chance says of Star Line<\/em>, adding: \u201cI think the sounds, production-wise, if they\u2019re not super experimental, they\u2019re based in some of the Black music that was influential to me throughout my childhood or through my travels.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAmidst a whole lot of personal change, too, Chance says comedian Dave Chappelle gave him some solid advice for how to think about major artistic projects. Chance says the comedian compared stand-up specials and albums to \u201cyearbook photos,\u201d adding: \u201cIt\u2019s not the full story of who you are, it\u2019s who you are at that moment. And it\u2019s important to take that snapshot and put it out there so you have documentation of what that moment felt like. And throughout this process, it\u2019s a very cyclical thing of how I felt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tElsewhere in the interview, Chance raves about Doechii\u2019s Lolla set<\/a>; discusses the challenges of navigating the pressures of public perception; and goes deep on his recent single, \u201cTree,\u201d discussing its crucial India.Arie sample and how the song captures many of the lyrical themes and motifs he explores on the rest of Star Line<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWithin the context of the album, it\u2019s a really important song,\u201d he says. \u201cBecause obviously, on the surface, it\u2019s a weed song. But really, it\u2019s about the inequities of the cannabis industry and using that as a metaphor, overall, for the inequities in agriculture. Black folks don\u2019t really own any means of production in a lot of industries, but Black farmers have always had it the toughest in America\u2026 The song, for me, was very expressive and very uncensored, but still fun, still inclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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