Chance The Rapper

Okay, that shit starts to reverberate in all these other different spaces and in the world of like the black churches, which are now starting to organize with King, starting to, you know, the mosque in Chicago starting to organize with Malcolm.

This dude comes, starts writing these books, one called Black Liberation, Black Power and Black Theology, one called The Cross and the Lynching Tree, which was the one that really like

is kind of like gave me the basis for a lot of the album, but he just made me like start to read the gospel in a different understanding and different like, you know, sense of self and self-determination.

And so that song was like something that I knew I needed to like, if I'm talking about all these different aspects of my black experience and what I see in the world and what I see wrong and what I see right and how I see myself and,

how could I not speak on the church?

And I got to speak on it at large and small.

So the first verse is about my own family church and just how I've watched my church, you know, essentially wither because of certain politics, of certain, you know,

Just how people treat each other.

And I'm not trying to like, I ain't trying to put my church on blast.

You know what I'm saying?

But I have to come from the internal first before I could be talking about other people.

So I talk about my church a little bit in the verse.

Then the second verse, I talk about the mega churches.

I talk about the Joel Osteens and the people that denied shelter to people when they have mega stadiums and people that, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

other mega church pastors that would you know spit in their hand and put it on somebody's face as a demonstration like i'm seeing these things that contradict with other things that they do and and it's not a it's not an issue with the person at all it's about the action and like what does it mean to be the body of christ so i'm examining that for those two verses and then the third verse i

talk about the black church and talk about the things that we've seen happen.

We know that they bombed four little girls in a church.

We know that just as recently, a couple of years ago, a man walked into a church in Buffalo and killed these innocent nine people that was praying.

So, and we know, you know, that they used to, the people that were doing lynchings, if you've got a, if you've got any of those photos of the lynchings, if you turn the camera the other way, it's the entire church congregation that's putting on this public lynching.