{"id":167412,"date":"2025-09-19T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167412\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:31:07","slug":"chance-the-rapper-emphasizes-star-lines-tree-after-dsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167412\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance The Rapper Emphasizes Star Line&#8217;s \u201cTree\u201d After DSU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Chance had just spoken about the song on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WHATSTHEWORDTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">What\u2019s The Word Podcast<\/a>, stressing that its radical core lies not in its provocative language but in its unflinching social critique. He raps, \u201c\u2018And they gonna have us tied up once it\u2019s legalized because it is a tree \/ Are they still lynching Black folks in America in 2025?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">\u201cIt\u2019s about confronting the reality that lynching and racially motivated violence against Black Americans is not some relic,&#8221; Chano explained. &#8220;It\u2019s still happening.\u201d He emphasized that \u201cTree\u201d seeks to force raw conversations often avoided in mainstream music. From the persistence of sundown towns to the broader legacy of racial terror in the South.<\/p>\n<p>Chance The Rapper&#8217;s Reaction To Delta State University<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Invoking the theology of scholar James Cone, Chance connected Biblical imagery\u2014\u201cstrung up on a tree\u201d\u2014with America\u2019s history of violence. \u201cThat\u2019s why I made this song. It\u2019s activism. It\u2019s about keeping the conversation alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">The urgency of those words deepened with Reed\u2019s death. A preliminary autopsy revealed no signs of trauma, and the Mississippi State Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide. Toxicology results are pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Reed\u2019s family, represented by attorney Ben Crump, disputes the findings. They have called for an independent autopsy, citing conflicting information and delays in communication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">For Chance, \u201cTree\u201d is not just a song. It\u2019s a reminder that the violence his lyrics confront remains an urgent, lived reality. Star Line, out now, features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/youngthug\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Young Thug<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/lilwayne\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lil Wayne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/vic-mensa\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vic Mensa<\/a>, and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Chane takes his act on the road next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chance had just spoken about the song on the What\u2019s The Word Podcast, stressing that its radical core&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[59861,100817,97173,88,216,3,59863,7246,100818],"class_list":["post-167412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-chance-the-rapper","tag-demartravion-trey-reed","tag-delta-state-university","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-star-line","tag-tree","tag-trey-reed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}