{"id":871791,"date":"2026-10-05T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871791\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:50:11","slug":"chance-the-rapper-says-hes-thinking-about-chopping-his-stage-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871791\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Says He’s Thinking About Chopping His Stage Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChance the Rapper<\/a> has been using his chosen stage for more than 15 years. But in a chat with Raven-Symon\u00e9 and Miranda Maday on the latest episode of their Tea Time podcast, Maday wondered what his intention was in choosing that nom de rap and whether he considered early on if he would \u201cstretch the idea or the limitations\u201d around the title of MC with his alter ego.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI think when I first got it, it was just a name that a girl I went to high school with came up with,\u201d Chance (born Chancelor Jonathan Bennett), 33, told the duo. \u201cI think over time, yes, people would tell me, \u2018Yo, you should drop the \u2018rapper\u2019 part out of your name because you\u2019re more than rap.’\u201d He said he\u2019s hesitated to foreshorten the name in the years since because he always wanted whatever he did to be attributed to hip-hop and to be under the influence of hip-hop.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to carry rap the same way that rap has carried me through life,\u201d he added. But recently, including while thinking in the shower the day of his podcast interview \u2014\u00a0as well as on his current Coloring Book 10th anniversary tour, which wraps up in Pittsburgh on Oct. 11 \u2014\u00a0he\u2019s been \u201cthinking about changing my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis thoughts have revolved around losing the \u201cChance\u201d and just going by \u201cThe Rapper,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ve been thinking about a lot. I just really love the art form. I really love words. I think the greatest rappers, like myself, are etymologists and linguists at heart, people that really just love language. So, the writing part of it, the performance part of it is so much of my identity and I think the \u2018Chance\u2019 part \u2026 I give a lot of vulnerability and looks into my life and what\u2019s going on in my life, relationships, just my whole self sometimes and I don\u2019t love that as much now as I love just working within the genre.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs examples of the way he\u2019s opened up in his music from day one, Chance listed songs about his grandmother having surgery (\u201cSunday Candy\u201d), being a first-time dad (\u201cI Love You So Much\u201d) and traumas he\u2019s experienced, taking up the mantle of his favorite vulnerable MCs, including Outkast\u2019s Andr\u00e9 3000, Kanye West, Eminem and Mos Def. But, Chance said rather than stepping away from hip-hop, he wants to dig deeper into it and have his stage name demonstrate his commitment to the genre. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s good to make a song that\u2019s not about what I did that day,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo date, Chance has released three official mixtapes (10 Day in 2012, Acid Rap in 2013 and Coloring Book in 2016) as well as two full-length studio albums, 2019\u2019s The Big Day and 2025\u2019s Star Line.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Chance talk about a possible name change below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper has been using his chosen stage for more than 15 years. But in a chat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,3867,216,498],"class_list":["post-871791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871791","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=871791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}