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Continue Get all the best moments in pop culture and entertainment delivered to your inbox. Yesterday I left my wallet at home, says Chancelor Bennett, known as Chance the Rapper. It's 9 p.m. on an autumn evening at a Chicago recording studio, and he and his bandmates are packing for the night. Four days later, they put on their biggest show of the year, at the City Of United Center.Bennett sits next to me in high-waisted track pants and a fitted tee. He admits he feels a little overwhelmed having a new baby at home and a new tour to prepare for, and yesterday was proof. He took his 4-year-old daughter, Kensli, to Dunkin' for a rare treatment before school. It was the first day all week that he was able to make a morning drop-off and he wanted to feel special. She chose a shiny, sprinkled chocolate doughnut, and he realized that his pocket was empty. It's just crazy disappointment for a child, he says, shaking his head, clearly still unable to forgive himself. Luckily, another customer was more than happy to pick up the tab in exchange for a photo with Chance the Rapper.The whole 2019 span, in fact, was pretty frantic for the 26-year-old, who made the unthinkable choice a few years ago to avoid recording deals and give away his music for free. It has received more than 1.5 billion streams on SoundCloud since 2012, and it has earned millions of dollars in revenue, through live shows, merchandise and endorsements instead. Last winter, he directed six episodes of Rhythm and Flow, a Netflix talent contest he hosts with Cardi B, T.I., and a host of royalty RBC, which debuted in October. In March, he celebrated his wedding to longtime girlfriend Kirsten Corley, a pediatric behavioral therapist and Kensley's mother. In July, he released The Big Day, his first official full album (he had previously released three mixtapes, the last of which snatched three Grammys), which became a Billboard No 2 hit. He made his feature film debut in July with a cameo in the Disney remake of The Lion King. In October, he hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time, also performing as a musical guest. During all this, he also helped run SocialWorks, a nonprofit he founded in 2016 that works to improve the lives of young people in Chicago through art education, mental health services, warm clothing drives, and more. Bennett donated $2 million of his own to SocialWorks, including $1 million to Chicago Public Schools and $1 million to Chicago Mental Health Initiatives. In late August, Corley gave birth to the couple's second daughter, Marley. It was this development that caused Bennett to already packed the schedule to melt down- he felt he might not be the new father and go on tour at the same time. Eleven days after Marley, he announced, via Instagram (and a photo of himself his girls) that he would put off his highly anticipated, 31-stop North American tour until January. Yet he kept his promise in Chicago. On September 28, he performed one show for tens of thousands of people, which was attended by his brother Taylor and Chicago native Kanye West. The decibel level at the United Center, home to the Chicago Bulls, has reached levels that rivaled the Michael Jordan era. Chicago was just another loved one, whom Bennett couldn't disappoint. As he himself says on his 2018 track I Might Need Security: I sign my city as Bat-Signal. Chicago is a city divided by a river that cuts it horizontally. Head north, past the old money of Lincoln Park (where public schools are highly rated); past Cubs fans at Wrigley Field (which charges some of the highest ticket prices of any MLB stadium); past Edison Park (statistically one of the safest areas of the city, where a disproportionate number of law enforcement officers hole up at night); by the liberal enclave of Evanston (home of Northwestern University); and you will reach the rich, 90% white suburbs. Head south, past the Loop business district, and you'll begin to understand the place from which Bennett draws inspiration, both musically and civilly: selective enrollment of Jones College Prep (where Bennett attended high school); Harold Washington Library (where he recorded parts of his first mixtape); The White Sox's Guaranteed Rate Field (which charges one of the lowest ticket prices in MLB, and where Bennett started SocialWorks, promoting his third mixtape, Coloring, in 2016). Keep going and you'll reach Hyde Park (a predominantly black intellectual stomping ground for the Obamas, and by the way, where Bennett, at age 9, first heard Kanye West's track on the radio, which inspired him to buy College Of Education, the first rap album he's ever listened to) and eventually the heart of the South Side, an area most Americans know only as a caricature of gun violence. Photo: Mamadi Dumbouy; Stylist: DJ Smedley; Groomer: Tia Danzler with Dior Homme; Hairdresser: @Youssefbarber This part of Chicago is home to a middle-class neighborhood called Chatham, where Bennett was born. He is one of the fourth generation of Bennetts who lived on the same block, and his music, friends, family and Christian faith remain rooted here. It is for this reason that he runs his business different from perhaps any major artist working today. Bennett doesn't have a Hollywood agent or manager on the retainer. There's no slick branding agency or advertising firm out there purchasing megadeals. His music and social good operations are purposefully intertwined, organically, that avoids the org board. We really are a mom-and-pop-type shop. We're just working on a large scale, says Colleen Mares, his day in and day manager who ordered one one Bennett's early show, in 2013.One team member happens to be actual pop Bennett Ken Bennett is a veteran of the Chicago political world who served two mayors and helped orchestrate Barack Obama's unsuccessful 2000 congressional race, along with his history-making 2008 presidential run. Ken is currently a member of the SocialWorks board and treats his son's career as a political candidate. He found Bennett his principal career manager, Pat Corcoran, who worked with some South Side rappers, in 2013.Most of the roughly 10 people who work for Bennett's mini-label are native Chicagoans who have been with him since about then, including his lighting designer, a live video producer, and an artist who does branding and merchandising for the label and SocialWorks. Bennett's closest childhood friend, Justin Cunningham, is currently the executive director of SocialWorks. Reese White, a friend from high school, sits on the board of SocialWorks and helps with marketing. Essence Smith, whom Bennett and Cunningham met during their first year of high school, is SocialWorks' director of operations and communications. These are people I trust very much, Bennett said. It's not like our colleagues. It's more like ... just a simple conversation. Bennett and I climb into the back of a comically large SUV and he slides his Nintendo switch aside for me to take a seat. As we make our way south from the studio to its new downtown condo, we're talking about Cunningham, who was instrumental in keeping Bennett on the task as long as the two knew each other. From elementary school, he was the only kid who gave me a pencil because I came to school every day without a pencil. I would come to school every day without lunch, Bennett says. I just wasn't very organized it's the best way to say it, even to this day. Bennett did so badly in the first 10 weeks of high school that he was almost kicked out. By the end of the first quarter, he had failed six of seven courses. To stay, he took a strict schedule, dropping out of electives, stacking two biology classes on the same day, and enrolling in summer school. However, Bennett says he secretly paid Cunningham to do his summer school work. When Bennett was a junior, his father worked for a year in Washington, D.C., working for the Department of Labor under President Obama. Bennett, Taylor and his mother Lisa (formerly a liaison in public relations with the Illinois attorney general) stayed in Chicago. By the time Ken returned, Bennett was out of discipline. Having so much time without a strict dad, just, like, hanging out, and everybody starts buying guns, getting into drugs, having sex, growing up and making decisions... I ran it. Cunningham and Smith went to college. that won't be of high school with the rest of his class, not made. It was a strange space for me, says Bennett, recalling how he felt to let his friends move on until he stagnated, dreaming of a career in rap that felt far from achievable. So when I didn't go to school or get a job, it's obvious that my dad kicked me out, says Bennett, who spent the following year couch surfing in friends' places. A few days before The Bennett United Center's concert, Ken Bennett sits in a nearly empty stadium on the suburban Campus deKalb of Northern Illinois University. Bennett and his band created a scene imitating the United Center, complete with 30-foot screens and strobes, and bass flooding my body as they perform and customize the songs until they get them right. Ken sits with his head tilted back, his eyes closed in a relaxed micro slumber. He wakes himself up later, bouncing his head to the music as Bennett and Taylor perform Roo on stage. The lyrics credit Ken for instilling a connection between the brothers, but also address the hole that opened when he left this year. Bennett may have been a terrible student, but he still learned a lot in his school years. Through the YouMedia studio of the Chicago Public Library, a creative media lab in the Harold Washington Library, he honed his musicality and recorded an album. A mentor named Brother Mike Hawkins ran a weekly open night microphone for Chicago high school students. The rules were simple: three minutes on stage, and no racism or sexism. Hundreds of teens will show up, so not everyone can perform. Somehow, however, Bennett's name will consistently float to the top of the list. I remember I had the song Brain Cells ... and I'm going to perform every week. And at one point, Brother Mike came to me and said, Yo, if you perform this song again next week, I'm not going to let you perform (more) , Bennett recalls, lying on the concrete floor of the arena and using his denim jacket as a pillow. As the setting sun shines through the lonely set of windows of the building behind us, he cheerfully admits that he is half asleep. A lot of people have different theories about how I approached... but to be honest, the lessons I learned and the fans that I got all came when I was doing an open microphone. During that challenging year after graduating from high school, Bennett said he was one evening at Tony Lincoln Park with his older friend and aspiring rapper Rodney Kyles when a big ail fight broke out. Kyles was stabbed to death by an unknown man who will never be caught. That evening, from the hospital where his friend died, Bennett called his father. It was the first time I called him in a long time. He picked me up and I came home and I just stayed there. And then I lived there, Bennett says. Soon after, Ken quoted a line of Bennett's idol, Kanye West: Told my mom that I was on to come up with / / said: You go to school, I'll give you a summer / . . . Ten years later she's driving a Hummer. It was Ken's way to give Bennett his blessing, and a term of a year to become a chance rapper. And he'll help. Photo: Mamadi Dumbouy; Stylist: DJ Smedley; Groomer: Tia Danzler with Dior Homme; Hairdresser: @Youssefbarber Before Bennett's first mixtape was even completed, Ken persuaded the popular clothing store to agree to audition because he knew many young rappers, including Bennett, were hanging out there. He printed pluggers, small handouts used by politicians, and drove Bennett and Taylor, who is three years younger, to some of the city's largest and most prestigious local high schools to promote the show. And then the hell people came, says Bennett, as 200 to 300 people showed up. After Ken brought manager Pat Corcoran into the fold, Bennett's 10 Day mixtape caught the attention of actor and musician Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino), and Bennett became the first act for some of Glover's 2013 tours. Bennett's career was clearly accelerating, and Ken had one key piece of advice. He's like, Get your friends, Bennett recalls. There's no reason your friends should work for people other than you, less than they cost. So when Bennett needed a personal assistant, he called Smith, who had postponed law school to join him. When he wanted to do some social good projects, he called Cunningham, who balanced the work with the college. When brother Mike died, in 2014, at the age of 38, Bennett was shocked. He and Cunningham, along with local poet Malcolm London, resumed the neighbour's Open Mike programme with the same three- minute limit and other rules, and Bennett began hosting the event in 2015. That same year, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar performed. Also that same year, Bennett and Cunningham began a coat drive. Bennett says the desire to return the community did not come to him suddenly; he always felt a certain weight of responsibility. It's just how I was brought up and my faith. It's the exact opposite of imposter syndrome. It's like, I go outside sometimes and I feel like I have an abundance, and so I feel like I have to share it and serve in every way that I can find, he says. It just feels like it's who I am, not in a way that's cocky, but that's what I have to share things. Bennett and Cunningham dubbed their efforts a warm winter, and were able to purchase 1,175 new coats for the homeless after collecting $117,517 in its first year (the program now distributes donated outerwear). Cunningham recalls that after that, Bennett had a good, old-fashioned heart to heart: We want to keep doing it... how can we make it better? Non-profit wrap all this work It seemed fine, but what would it even look like? Will Bennett just pump money into the fund, as many celebrities do? Or will it be something else, the result of the local community? Bennett, Cunningham and Smith have become equal partners in a new venture that allocates only 10% of funding to operating expenses and today includes four major initiatives: education (providing arts grants for dozens of Chicago public schools), mental health (offering funding to six local health facilities), homeless assistance (Warm Winterest is now an annual tradition), and summer camp (Children Kingdom is a Christian-oriented camp founded by Bennett). Ken Bennett is also on board, and his ties to Chicago politics help ensure that the group can get the right people on the phone in order to get things done. In September, SocialWorks first stepped outside of Chicago, launching Open Mike in Las Vegas. Bennett knew that his friends were hardworking, diligent and effective. Also, we're friends, so you know when it's a good time to talk about something serious, or when it's time for music, says Smith. And it's not like I'm going to bother him. These are the things he's passionate about. The team cooperates through a group chat. Bennett weighs in on all topics, but, as he put it, often serves as a lightning rod to bring in money and volunteers. As it turns out, many people, and many brands, want to collaborate with Bennett the artist and Bennett philanthropist. They may not even see the differences. For example, when sportswear company Champion sent Bennett some free samples of clothing, he started wearing them simply because he liked to be comfortable. He then continued to wear them, along with other items from the brand. His team noticed an opportunity for a nonprofit organization. If he's going to wear all these things, let's see if we can help SocialWorks in some way, mares says. While Bennett is not paid by Champion to wear the label, Champion is sponsoring SocialWorks, donating merchandise, supporting live activations, and hosting a design competition that has raised money for Chicago public schools. (Manny Martinez, founder of the American Branding Agency, which has represented the champion for the past 15 years in the world of youth culture, calls Bennett Muhammad ali hip-hop.) Bennett's team evaluates each potential deal in this way. If a company has a marketing budget to hire Bennett, it will likely have corporate social liability dollars to help SocialWorks. We're thinking about the barter. We're not just cut (us) check, Bennett's Mares brand partnership. Many times we just quit to ask: Would you raise money if some of them went to SocialWorks? Or throw in a component that somehow benefits ?' In a positive way, we try to use the levers of Chance to benefit the work the nonprofit does. In addition to Bennett's $2 million, SocialWorks has been funded by $6 million from corporations that include Google, Lyft, and Champion (none of which sponsor Bennett directly), and the organization forge other types of accessories when needed. (The warmest winter, for example, is currently working in partnership with renowned local philanthropist Michael Airhart.) Bennett is very disciplined with his music - he makes drastic changes to the tracks during rehearsals to get them just right, but with SocialWorks, he's posting. I love helping people and I love feeling happy, he says with a slight smile. So in a certain context I better say no, but other times, yes, I'm not a guy. On the night of the United Center concert, Bennett's presence was everywhere. During the day, he tweeted ads about free tickets that he left around town, like the real-life Willie Wonka: the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Coleman Ribs restaurant and the National Academy of Teachers. The sign above The I-90 recognizes the concert with a play on Bennett's lyrics: Get a sober angel ride and there's no problem. Bennett performs Hot Shower with Chicago Bulls mascot Benny Bull. During the late verse of All We Got, an unmistakable automatically tuned voice comes from the stage on the left, and Kanye West trots to join Bennett in finishing the chorus We Know We Know We Got It. At the concert venue, I almost got up as the crowd rushes onto the stage. This evening, Bennett feels like Chicago's self-unelected mayor of the city. For years, Bennett actually teased the idea of making that relationship more formal (in a 2015 track, he said: They shouted Chano for mayor /I think maybe I should), and after his $1 million donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, his fans started a petition for him to run. But in 2018, after Mayor Rahm Emanuel resigned, Bennett endorsed two separate candidates for the position, first donating $400,000 to a young policy consultant named Amara Enya, and then after she failed to get enough votes in the primaries, speaking for Tony Prequinkle (who worked for his father). Both lost. Is Bennett revisiting the campaign? I don't know, he says. Running for president is one thing, but when it comes to actual governance, decisions are always either reformist or maybe conservative, but they're never And I feel that if I were in that position, just crazy to realize how many things are wrong and be a part of this crap. Not only does he agree with the view that management seems to be trying to turn a very large ship - it's inherently slow, but the ship itself is flawed, he says, becoming a little more passionate. It's a slave ship, really, and it's a huge caste system in it, and it's sinking. So trying to take it somewhere is a blow. We have to try to get lifeboats or something like that. If Bennett's future isn't in politics, it could be in publishing. In the track I Might Need Security, released before this latest album, Bennett revealed that he bought a 15-year-old City blog Chicagoist for an undisclosed sum in 2018: I bought a Chicagoist only to run you racist bitches out of business/Talking about racist, fuck your microaggressions / I'll make you fix your words like a typo sentence. He probably directs his anger at several parties: then-Gov. Bruce Rauner, who severely cut funding for Chicago's public schools; The Chicago Sun-Times, who called Bennett a deadbeat dad in an editorial; and Cubs owner Joe Ricketts, who last worked as a Chicagoist and folded his family to local media properties when union employees. (Fast Company is editing by the Writers Guild of America, East.) For many it was a shock. Not only that he bought a news site, but that he claims that he will control his voice. A lot of people... thought I'd say: I'm a tyrant. That's not true, he promises. Chicagoist will resume as an app that he helps in the development. It will be a utility, he says, focused less on crime reports or news from City Hall and more on food and culture. Just creating a catalog at city level for everything, and making it more interactive, is my main goal, he says. Once the platform is built, Bennett plans to bow, giving the editor full independence. But Bennett bristles at how people reacted, pointing out how often it's for successful black artists to get criticism when they're trying to change lanes (witness Jay-?s purchase of the Brooklyn Nets or almost every business Oprah has pursued). And besides, the former Chicago owners didn't do that much work! He's talking. Indeed, publishing may seem like an amazing turnaround for Chance the Rapper, but it is beginning to look at its career in the long run and adopt the amorphous archetype of its future. I never say that, but I'm kind of like a baby star. I made many decisions between the ages of 17 and 18 that affected me for the rest of my life. He hit his career ahi early. I wanted to be on SNL, I wanted to go to the MTV Video Music Awards. I wanted to meet Kanye West, he says. But then it's like, continues, and you have to form new goals. So now, I want to have a certain number of children. I want to be happily married. I want my children to learn well and easily in school. I want my parents to live long. It's more intangible stuff. And doughnuts. Sleepless in Chicago: Days long for chancelor Bennett.Time he gets up: Today I woke up at 4. I have a fresh baby, so I wake up very early. Otherwise I'm up at 7 or 7:30. I have to take my daughter to school in the morning. And I wake up early. I don't know why. The first thing he does in the morning: I talk to my wife. Normally, we wake up together-ish. How he handles social media: I'm in the business of having to use social media, and I'm from a generation that really, like, made social media what it is. So that's what I'm on all day. All the time. I think it's definitely unhealthy, of course! It's just the reality of this time. The last thing he does at night: Play Fortitude. Time he goes to bed: From midnight to 2 a.m., a version of this article appeared in the winter issue of Fast Company 2019/2020. Log. chance the rapper acid rap zip vk

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