[Video] Common Talks Chance The Rapper with Vibe
The vast majority may associate Kanye West with the top rapper to come from the Windy City, but to real hip-hop fans, there's few artists above Common in terms of Chicago rap legends. The soulful, poetic artist laid the groundwork for an entire generation of artists from his hometown to pursue different sounds and aesthetics within their records. As Chance The Rapper has ascended to hip-hop royalty over the past year, we have heard little from the upper-echelon of Chicago hip-hop on the young artist responsible for Acid Rap. Twista hopped on the project, spitting a verse on "Cocoa Butter Kisses" and Lupe shouted him out at the end of a recent song, but nothing has been heard from Yeezy, and very little from Common on Chano until today, when Common sat down with Vibe to discuss Chicago's newest star.
Common remarks at Chance's ability to have as much fun as he wants with his music, citing his varying vocal patterns, rhyme schemes and voices that make up the sort of R&B/Hip-hop aesthetic that has become Chance's calling card as of late. The Chicago legend also expresses his belief that Chance has a very bright future ahead of him. That's verification. Check out the full interview, streaming below.
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Chance The Rapper: "Cocoa Butter Kisses" Feat. Vic Mensa (Stefan Ponce Remix)
Stefan Ponce has been making hip-hop music in Chicago for a minute. The new father dropped his remix to Chance The Rapper's cigarette anthem, "Cocoa Butter Kisses" off his colossal Acid Rap release earlier this year. Ponce starts things off by accentuating the thunderous keystrokes of Peter CottonTale that set the tone of the track, before steadily taking things up a notch and turning the melodic song into a bonafide dance track. The break gets some funky synth work that makes "Cocoa Butter Kisses" a different kind of fun adventure throughout, playing with Chance's idyllic "nana's". Vic Mensa's verse, one of the highlights as far as features go on Acid Rap sound intrinsically Innanetape-esque with a double time shaker and increased bpm pushing the verse and track in a different direction. Check out the fun, creatively different remix of "Cocoa Butter Kisses" by Stefan Ponce, below.
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