Name: Chance The Rapper On His Divorce
Uploaded: 2025-11-01T13:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Chance The Rapper On His Divorce' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Chance The Rapper On His Divorce' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-01. Transcript available.

You were with someone for 22 years?
Who?
Your ex-partner?
Your ex-wife?
Or you knew her for 22 years?
Yeah.
We grew up in Chicago, so I've known her for most of my life, yeah.
So in doing the research for this, I saw the way people are so wrapped up in
your...
It has to be a product of celebrity, that people are like, "I thought this was
relationship
goals," but that people are so invested in a certain way.
And the first thought I had was going back to that future point, right?
Future's like...
You think that people are so wrapped up in your shit, because they thought of
you as like,
he's the good, happy-go-lucky guy.
I think that's super possible.
I think there's an outside...
When you publish something, you publish the work, but you also just publish the
cover,
right?
People don't have to open the book to know what everything's about.
They just have to see it on the shelf.
And that metaphor, I'm just saying, if I'm a celebrity, everybody that watches
that interview
doesn't necessarily do a deep dive into my music.
They're just introduced to me in this video.
And so I think with celebrity and with personal lives being shared, I think
that there's people
that don't have a full context of anything other than maybe something that they've
read
or something that I've put out there about how long we've known each other or
what the relationship
feels like.
Yeah.
Versus people that are my fans know I got married four years after I had
already had my kid.
I've known this person for a long time.
We've been in and out of things.
People have like a really strong relationship and I think that when I was very
public about being
married to her and being happy about getting married and being a rapper.
Yeah.
Do you regret being so open about your personal life?
No, I'm a rapper.
Like, that's a big part of being a rapper is being open about your public life
and being,
I'm sorry, about your personal life and being open to criticizing to analyze
the real world
as well as your own vulnerabilities.
Yeah, but it's a little bit annoying, right?
Like, you're going through a personal experience and then people have opinions
on like your personal
life.
When you don't like the opinions, but like when they're good opinions, don't
you like
it?
Like when somebody's celebrating your success?
No, I don't care what a stranger thinks about my girlfriend.
Can you guys turn the cameras off?
Because niggas don't care?
No, no, I'm just kidding.
I'm kidding.
No, no, but I'm just making a point.
I was just joking.
We gotta wrap.
Sorry for saying that.
I was just making a point.
I wasn't.
We should wrap soon.
I want to go.
I want to get back to the point I made about future, right?
Yeah.
Like, no one's team Russell Wilson.
Everyone's like, yeah, future, he's got, he's, you know, he's.
Russell Wilson didn't make March Madness, but like people love Russell Wilson.
What I'm saying is like, people are like, I, what I found was like, and I didn't
know
about this cause I don't like consume this type of media, but like the response
to your
divorce is like that people were like, had, were like felt betrayed or
something cause
it was relationship goals.
And it's like, get a fucking life.
Like it's like a, I mean future doesn't get that right.
Because it's like the assumption is, is that he has to get pussy.
I was making this point earlier.
He has to get pussy.
I was making this point earlier.
Like everything that we see, like celebrities are the flagship of conversation.
We push product, right?
Correct.
So when any headline that you get from a blog or from a shade room or anything,
it's, it's
pushing a story, but it's also pushing a specific moral boundary where people
have to feel, you
know, hot or cold on either side.
And so everything is politicized, even if we're not talking about politics.
But that's sick.
That's just, but that's the way the media works.
It's bad for society though.
No one would like, no one was like.
Facts.
No one like, there was the Beatles or like Elvis Presley.
No one would like felt like personally betrayed by their personal lives like
that.
There was a, there was a distance between the, the artist and then the audience.
And I think for sure, probably the internet early.
Yeah.
Probably the internet has, the internet has blurred that line.
Like remember when like women couldn't wear skirts past their knees on TV.
Like remember when like people, I don't remember that.
Well, there was a time when like, it was controversial to have a black person
on TV on sharing the same set as a white person.
So I'm saying like through media as it's, as society and culture has revolutionized,
there's been more and more like a, a close relationship to TV and a, and it's
grown as society becomes cooler with things that used to be taboo.
So are you single gentlemen now or have you considered doing, doing what, what,
uh, the God did?
You get like a girl that looks a little bit like the last one and then make her
be naked?
What?
That is hilarious.
So, uh, you've traveled a lot, right?
You, uh, you said that, uh, I've seen other interviews with you, like Ghana was
a heavy influence.
Super, super. Yeah.
Uh, tell us about like the, this is, this, the CD.
So this is, this, this is the CD, right?
Yeah.
And people don't typically have CD plays in them.
I'm sure you probably don't.
Right.
So what I did with this project was in an attempt to create a physical handoff
with between me and my fans.
Cause that's what people used to really like is like, I could get something
that I owned forever that I got from this artist that I love.
Something physical.
Something physical.
I gave them some physical, but more importantly, I wanted to give them
something that, um, was, uh, functional.
So this has, uh, NFC technology.
I'm sure you know what NFCs are, but-
National Football Conference.
What is NFC?
That's incorrect.
So what NFC is, is it's a, uh, near field communication.
So what you could do with this CD is you could just tap your phone straight to
it without like using a QR code or anything.
And a link will populate and come down and it'll take you to the album.
So you can Bluetooth it, um, straight from your phone.
So at any point, like if you keep your CD, you could play it on any speaker.
You're the first person ever?
First person.
Really?
Yeah.
You invented a, uh, a new thing?
It's like when two iPhones touch and then you-
It's the same technology.
Yeah.
Like when you use like your, uh, when you tap to pay.
It feels intimate when you do, when you touch another person's-
And you feel it and it's like the little thing that happens and vibrates and
stuff.
Yeah.
There's a vibrate and you're like, are we fucking right now?
It's a little bit like that.
Uh, can you-
Facts.
So what do you, like your first single is, is called Tree, right?
My first song is called Tree.
So it was, uh, a record that took a long time to put out, uh, that I love dearly
and I feel like is a good thesis for the project.
It's a, it's, it's not, uh, it doesn't cover all the topics of the project, but
the song itself is about, um, you know,
my mom, my, you know, how we grew up with these certain taboos around weed, you
know, like how we, how weed is represented when it comes to hip hop artists and
black culture versus how we look at it as a financial, like, yeah, exactly.
Like, uh, you know, so there's a, there's, there's a separation there, but it's
also mainly, uh, about the inequities in the cannabis industry.
Um, how niggas go to jail, but other people make billions.
Is there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a overall, I'm sorry, there's an
overarching disparity when it comes to ownership in agriculture, black farmers,
um, access to produce, access to, to, to fresh foods and access to the monies
that those things make.
And there's a, a microcosm of that is in the cannabis industry, but there's
like, there's a larger conversation that I'm having that has a lot of
connection to sharecropping and to slavery and just the way that capitalism was
allowed to, to, to go crazy in this country.
Yeah.
So this whole album, it's called Starline.
Um, it's named after, uh, the black Starline, which was started by Marcus Garvey
in the twenties.
He, he started the first ever black owned shipping and trading company on these
big ass ocean liners that would send beans, coffee, all types of stuff, um, for
other companies to South America and Central America.
Did he print off that?
He, he, he made, he did.
He had a, he had a place called, uh, Dirk has a trucking company.
Dirk does have a, so all of this is in line.
There's, there's a lot of actual trucking companies that are named Starline
because that's typically like a freight and company name.
Uh huh.
And the point of this project is to kind of like, for the first time, I think
at the forefront of hip hop highlight black entrepreneurship.
Yeah.
Uh, black self-determination and, and, and I think just shining.
Like, I feel like that's what you, you see this.
So this was painted by Brandon Bro.
It's the same art from, uh, acid rap and coloring book.
Yeah.
And what he really focuses on is the composition, which is always typically the
same with like the portraiture in the center.
Correct.
But he's very, really focused on like the fucking, uh, the background.
That's the Aurora, Aurora Borealis.
Aurora Borealis.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Also known as the Northern Lights if you're not a nerd.
Have you ever seen it?
I've never been there.
You gotta go to like Sweden or something?
You gotta go to Iceland.
You gotta go to Iceland.
Boys trip, dude.
I like the way you said it the first time.
Lad's trip.
Iceland.
Iceland.
But Lad's trip.
I think weed should go back to illegal personally.
It's not cool anymore now.
No, facts.
Facts.
It's too much weed.
You walk around New York, it's just like these, the dispensaries, the
aesthetics.
They don't have good, they don't have like, like, uh, like cool, like they look
gross.
It's a government scam.
I think it is, actually.
It's a government scam.
Remember when they legalized?
I keep saying remember like you were there, I'm just saying like, remember in
history.
I remember all of it.
The end of Prohibition.
Yeah.
Same vibes.
They did that because of the Great Depression.
They did it because of the commercialization of alcohol and how much they could,
you know,
viably make off of, you know, not allowing gangsters or black folks to be the
only people making money off of liquor.
Really?
I think us boys were making a little bit of money, so.
Hey man.
Get in where you fit in, you know.
I think us boys used to print a little bit off of that.
Us boys too.
I mean, but.