On that album, he rages about “getting blocked just trying to make songs with friends / Labels told me to my face that they own my friends.” In other words, some of his collaborations were nearly thwarted by label interests trying to skim off money from appearances by artists they had under contract. Surf (2015) was credited to his bandmates, Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment, and he boasted to Fader that every track “has like 50 people on it.” He has said over 100 people worked on Coloring Book. He has made money from touring, selling merchandise and the odd TV commercial, although such is his commitment to independence that, bereft of label advances, he has apparently gone broke after paying for studio time for his last two projects. He would press CD-Rs into the hands of anyone who would take them, and his grassroots following made its successor, 2013’s Acid Rap, a sensation on mixtape site DatPiff, surpassing a million (free) downloads. He was inspired to record his first mixtape, 10 Day (2012), after being suspended from high school for smoking marijuana. And his success, coupled with his all-for-one, one-for-all spirit, may pave the way for more inspired mavericks.īorn Chancellor Bennett in south-side Chicago in 1993, Chance has proved himself to be as good as his “Auntie Yoncé” at making lemonade when life gives you lemons. Assisted by a rookie 26-year-old manager and zero label deals, he has grown a huge fanbase, with a 40-date arena tour in the works. charts on the basis of streaming alone – Coloring Book, which isn’t available as a physical release and can be downloaded for free, hit #8 in May. He’s the first artist ever to hit the Billboard U.S. The notoriously out-of-touch Grammys do occasionally reward musical achievement and cultural relevance, rather than simply sales, and there’s no question Chance is a galvanizing force at a time of major music industry uncertainty.

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