It made perfect sense that celebrated hip hop artist Chance the Rapper held his final tour stop on a Sunday.<\/p>\n
There are many things that make the Grammy Award-winning rapper unique, but chief among them is the prominence of his Christian faith in his work and in his live performances. At Citizens Live at the Wylie on the Lower Hill on Sunday night, Chance captivated the energetic crowd with heartfelt discussion of prayer and God in between songs.<\/p>\n
This was the last stop of his 10 year anniversary tour celebrating his 2016 mixtape \u201cColoring Book,\u201d a project that catapulted the rapper into the mainstream. <\/p>\n
But before Chance the Rapper took the stage, the arriving crowd was treated to a pleasant surprise: a standout set from young upstart New Orleans rapper La Reezy, who provided both valuable energy and a positive start to the evening. Focusing on topics like family, community and love, he got the crowd thinking with dual-perspective song \u2018God Forgive Me\u201d and got the crowd jumping with \u201cWe Live.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cY\u2019all have a beautiful city, y\u2019all should be proud,\u201d the first-time Pittsburgh visitor said.<\/p>\n
After a brief DJ set from Chance the Rapper\u2019s longtime collaborator Peter Cottontale, the headliner kicked off his set with \u201cColoring Book\u201d opening track \u201cAll We Got.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout the next 100 minutes, he performed 12 of the 14 tracks of \u201cColoring Book,\u201d plus a selection of other songs. Next up came the transcendent and celebratory \u201cBlessings,\u201d which got the audience waving their arms in the air. \u201cSummer Friends\u201d was more low-key and bass-heavy, transitioning smoothly into \u201cAngels.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the last night, this is the only show I\u2019m going to remember,\u201d he joked from the stage.<\/p>\n
One of Chance\u2019s most impressive qualities is his versatility. When \u201cColoring Book\u201d came out in in 2016, there were a plethora of subgenres of hip-hop that were coming and going, ebbing and \u2026 well, flowing. The crowd jumped along to the more old-school banger \u201cAll Night\u201d but Chance also excelled over the more chill trap beat on \u201cMixtape.\u201d<\/p>\n
In between, he pulled out a powerful performance of soaring gospel-tinged tune \u201cNo Problem,\u201d one of his most popular songs. The tour crew pulled out all the stops, with thundering drums, confetti raining down and bouts of fog blasting up from the stage.<\/p>\n
During \u201cThe Highs and the Lows,\u201d with sleepier rapping, he did some fun freestyling where he shouted out his band and longtime fans, while also interpolating snippets of \u201cDoo Wop (That Thing\u201d by Lauryn Hill and \u201cMy Boo\u201d by Usher and Alicia Keys.<\/p>\n
During \u2018Smoke Break,\u201d he had fun with an autotune mic, singing his banter with the crowd. \u2018Front row, can I tell you something? When you\u2019re at my show, no matter where you\u2019re at, you\u2019re in the front row,\u201d he warbled.<\/p>\n
He also performed several songs from his most recent album, 2025\u2019s \u201cSTAR LINE,\u201d including the earnest \u201cLink Me in the Future.\u201d Then he pulled out a collaboration with Kanye West, \u201cUltralight Beam,\u201d that included some very layered production and an uplifting feel.<\/p>\n
He got the crowd involved in a cover of Nico Segal and the Social Experiment song \u201cSunday Candy,\u201d perfect for the time and place, and really let the audience vibe with the song\u2019s repeating chorus. Then, after \u201cFinish Line\/Drown,\u201d he paused to talk about God.<\/p>\n
He said that on every night of the tour, he prays before going onstage. \u201cEvery night, I pray for y\u2019all\u2019s safety,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the first time in the whole tour where I didn\u2019t ask for something, I just said thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the reprise of \u201cBlessings,\u201d a slower, more contemplative and church-like version, began, he cried tears of joy (in his own words). He and the whole crowd sang the song with a reverence and gratitude that felt spiritual.<\/p>\n
He ended the night with two highly contrasting songs, the light and loving \u201cCocoa Butter Kisses\u201d and the dark and severe \u201cSame Drugs.\u201d The whole end of the show felt like a pure celebration of a decade filled with love, support and music. And he graciously thanked the entire crew of the tour before taking a bow and leaving the stage among a blizzard of confetti.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one welcomes us like Pittsburgh!\u201d he called to the roaring crowd before letting the lights go down on an amazing tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It made perfect sense that celebrated hip hop artist Chance the Rapper held his final tour stop on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-880106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880106","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=880106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}