During this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival, The Guardian magazine caught up with Chicago’s own, Chance The Rapper. During the interesting interview, Chance also revealed some interesting angles in regards to his most recent project Surf — saying that he almost had Kanye West narrate the entire project. Enjoy the excerpt below and peep full interview here.
“The kid in me wanted a certain type of approval [from Kanye],” says Chance, who admits he once wanted “Kanye to be my dad”, still beaming at the memory. He and West have recently been working together in the studio on an undisclosed future collaboration, and as Chance reveals for the first time to the Guardian that West, who heard Surf “before anyone else”, was originally slated to appear on the entirety of the album. “Yah, he was going to narrate it at one point,” Chance says. “In the final weeks of getting ready to put it out we had vocal chops that we were using from ’Ye talking about some of the themes of the project. Through just thinking about it, it didn’t end up happening that way. Not to say it wouldn’t have been dope as shit!”
