The New Pioneers: Chance the Rapper Is One of the Hottest Acts in Music, Has...
Holed up at a recording studio in Chicago’s Near North Side, Chancelor Bennett — the local phenomenon known as Chance the Rapper — is in wise-old-man mode. Chance, 23, holds a cigarette aloft in one...
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How Grammy Winner Rhymefest Sacrificed Fame to Help Chicago Kids
Che Smith, the Chicago rapper known as Rhymefest, lay awake one night late in August. His doubts were multiplying, worries about money and career colonizing his every thought. He had won a Grammy...
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Saving Chicago: Vic Mensa, Common, Jamila Woods & Other Activists Fighting...
A Foreword to Billboard's 'Saving Chicago' package, by rapper, activist and Oscar winner Common: More than 670 people have been killed this year in Chicago, and more than 3,700 have been shot. That’s...
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Trump Said Chicago Is ‘A War Zone’: Activists Are Worried He Might Make It Worse
For four straight days after the presidential election, thousands of Chicagoans chanting “Not my president!” marched through the Loop, crossing the river to gather beneath the giant switchblade of the...
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Chance the Rapper Pledges Funds for Chicago Schools, Tells Governor Rauner to...
On Monday afternoon, Chance the Rapper walked into the library of Westcott Elementary, a few blocks from where he grew up on Chicago’s South Side. In one of his signature “3” caps — sky blue — and a...
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