Chance The Rapper

That sounds like four years old, five, three years old now.

But like, I still feel like,

I made that in this vein of like this road that I was going on.

Same thing with, yeah, I know.

Same thing with, you know, the, the vulnerability and, uh, three, three, three, three.

Like there's all these songs that like kind of, you know, kept checking in with my fans as I was growing and, but still taking the time to like craft something that they could hear that's new.

Is that where some of the energy went into with Letter from Chance?

Which is, you know, not unexpected.

You and I talked off mic on text.

You know, I grew up Irish Catholic, which I've talked on this pod about.

Super Irish Catholic.

And I've had reservations where I went and studied other religions, tried to find other denominations.

Just because it was a very weird experience once I got a little older.

Yeah.

Being that you have had, I wouldn't even say the stereotype, but you have obviously thought gospel in your music since Acid Rap.

Yeah.

How did you feel putting that record together that doesn't contradict, because I just think it's a reality of the church, but saying those things and kind of airing out.

Yeah.

it's hard putting it out i would say it was harder than writing it and but actually that's not true i felt i do remember like there was what's funny about me and i found out that like other like some of my peers don't do this but i'll be coming up with concepts long before i have the version of the song and sometimes i'll make three versions of one concept over completely different kind of beats whole new words still the same thing i'm trying to get across just maybe a different way and

One of the things that greatly inspired me when I was making this project, being honest, even before I went to Ghana, was reading this dude named James Cone.