According to legal documents from 2020, the Apple deal allowed Chance to “secure the funds necessary to clear the album while still maintaining complete creative rights and control over the project and without sharing royalties with Apple.” He further clarified that he thought artists “can gain a lot from the streaming wars as long as they remain in control of their own product,” implying it was wrong to “try to discredit independence” since he still held control over his music.
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He revealed in a series of March 2017 tweets, not long after the Grammys, that Apple paid him a clean half-mil for their release deal, which constituted the exclusive release as well as a half-minute commercial promoting said release. This unique arrangement immediately catalyzed semantic disputes among listeners: Is a musical project really a “mixtape” if it’s a polished product that can only be streamed? Can an artist still be “independent” if they work with a major corporation that already has multiple tentacles in the music business? The mass acclaim for Coloring Book still outshone these debates-until early 2017, when the tape won Best Rap Album at the Grammys, and Chance felt the need to clarify his independent status following growing questioning from fellow artists. But in following years, after his father stopped working for Emanuel, Chance would repeatedly call for the mayor’s resignation-in one instance even citing a Chicago police killing from December 2015. Why? His father works for the mayor.” A Chicago Magazine item quoted Chance as claiming that he didn’t “comment on that many things dealing with Rahm because I don’t really follow Rahm’s politics,” in a conversation that was only made public a week after Lee’s response. In December 2015, Chance lashed out at Spike Lee for the director’s infamous film Chi-raq in multiple tweets, saying that it was “exploitive and problematic.” Lee then responded: “ not criticized the mayor. These familial connections weren’t inherently suspect, but it didn’t take long for them to cause a flare-up. His mother was director of community relations for then–Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, and his father had worked for Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, Barack Obama in his capacities as both Illinois senator and president, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the notorious Obama administration alum who received frequent criticism for his handling of the city’s school system and brutal police force. As people learned more about Chance and his life, they read about how deeply his parents were connected to the very local politics whose effects and policies Chance decried in his music and elsewhere. There were hints even in the immediate aftermath of Acid Rap, however, that Chance was a dubious ambassador in both regards. But over the past few years, following social media outbursts and lawsuits and spats involving journalistic outlets, Rap Twitter has decided that none of that matters anymore. He even was invited to appear on Sesame Street and guest-host Saturday Night Live multiple times Nickelodeon tapped him to host the annual Kids Choice Awards in 2020, before the pandemic canceled the event. Yet it wasn’t all that long ago that Chance was an ubiquitous, universally beloved figure among music listeners, championed by everyone from local Chicago rap fans to the Recording Academy to prominent dilettantes like David Brooks and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. The consensus among Rap Twitter, whose skewering of certain artists often influences or determines public opinion of them, is that Chance-full name Chancelor Johnathan Bennett-is a corny sellout and secret villain who sucks at rapping now. And signs are, after all, what Chance believes in. Has the internet finally turned on Chance the Rapper? A quick browse through Twitter these days-which, for better or worse, remains a dynamic platform for us rap fans and our uniquely cursed Discourse-shows increasing amounts of signs that his reign as our most lovable, affable hip-hop star is perhaps definitively over.
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