Our first guest is a Grammy award winner, humanitarian,
and just one of the coolest guys around.
Please welcome, Chance the Rapper.
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Thank you, everybody.
Hello Chance.
Where are you right now?
I'm at work.
I'm in Chicago.
You're in Chicago.
That's a set.
That is not your house?
Yeah, no, I'm at work right now.
I'm doing a thing, a special thing.
What kind of thing are you doing?
Don't be--
I knew you were going to ask me about it.
It's a Christmas surprise.
I'm working on a concert.
Oh, good.
All right, because at first, I thought
you were in your kitchen.
I was like, no, that's like not a window behind him.
That's some kind of--
no, because then I was going to ask you--
It's a surprise come out really soon.
Pretty cool.
I'm on a set, though, yes.
All right, then when we see the surprise,
we'll see that and go, that's what he was doing.
That's from Ellen, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So how was-- what's Christmas like for you this year?
What are you doing?
It's smaller because the pandemic and social distancing.
It's just going to be me and my girls.
And tomorrow is my youngest daughter Marli, she's one now.
So I feel like she can be like this her first cognitive
Christmas, which will be like, Oh, well, she can't speak.
I don't know if she'll care about gifts.
But she's like, she'll walk on stuff so,
it's going to be a special Christmas.
That's her.
There she is.
You're posting really cute TikTok videos.
We just showed some of tWitch and his family,
and so who organizes these?
Is this your idea?
Now, this is me.
You can tell that these are my ideas.
I'm like a drill sergeant.
I just want-- I want to dance.
I want to-- they might enjoy it, though, too.
But yeah, that's usually me like, all right,
time to do another TikTok.
You must really miss performing because you love to do--
I mean do you miss performing?
I do.
That's why I do the virtual concert thing.
It's really therapeutic for me, and I really like to dance.
I really like to sing and do my thing.
So, yeah, now I'm working for the virtual concert
because I can film, and perform, and sing, feel good.
Get your creativity out.
This weekend there was a tweet from Dionne Warwick
that went viral because she teased you about your name,
and that was pretty cool, right?
Yeah.
I'm still in shock.
Yeah, I don't know it's crazy.
It was a weird thing.
I didn't know she had a Twitter.
I didn't know that she used Twitter.
I definitely didn't know she knew who I was,
so that was a huge deal for me.
But yeah, she even connected since then.
She reached out, and she's got a really cool initiative
with the homeless population that we're
going to work together on.
Yeah, she's obviously icon, a legend.
It was cool, though.
It was trending Dionne Warwick.
I don't know why she shouted me out.
Well, first of all, of course, she knows who you are.
Everybody knows who you are.
But the fact that she wants to rap together.
Are you going to do that?
I will do whatever she wants.
Yeah, if she wants to rap, sing, do the charity work,
or whatever she's trying to do.
Yes, see how it works.
Yes, it feels crazy.
Cool, so you and Justin have--
Justin was just here, and you have
your song "Holy" I love that song that you do with Justin.
It's fantastic.
Thank you.
You've worked with him before, but how
did this one come about?
This one was-- he called me it was funny.
It was the anniversary for--
me and Justin have a bunch of songs together,
and he's one of my best friends.
And he hit me up.
And I was thinking he was calling me
about our other song, "I'm the One."
Because it was about to get close--
it's getting close to being a diamond record at this point.
So I thought he was calling me to update you on sales.
Turns out he doesn't care about sales at all.
He's calling me about another record.
He's like, I got this brand new song.
I don't I don't care about old records.
I want to make another song.
I was like, all right, I'm down to make as many as you want.
So we made another one.
This "Holy" record it was really special to me
because me and Justin are close.
We're a year apart.
We got married at the same age, kind of
like gone through a lot of that stuff together.
And the song was about our relationship with our wives,
our relationship with our faith.
And it's cool because I think it seems to be connecting
with a lot of people.
So this was, I think this is probably
the most special-- definitely one of the most works
that we've done.
Yeah, it was great.
And so was your performance on SNL.
It was really great.
I loved seeing it.
You're a good guy.
You've given back so much to the community.
This year has been tough, but you've helped a lot of people
with your non-profit SocialWorks.
Do you want to tell people about that?
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, SocialWorks are still going strong.
It's been a different kind of year because of the pandemic
and stuff.
But we've been pivoting in a lot of ways.
Our summer camp KOK is still happening.
Just the remote learning they've been doing our open mike
remote.
And then this year's Warmest Winter, our initiative
that we do every year on homelessness,
we were able to do a lot of work with different shelters
in Chicago.
And we actually partnered with 10 shelters
to do our annual co-drive instead
of doing the party to kind of keep it socially distance.
But it's-- yeah, I think it's been a testament to how hard
our volunteers work and how hard all the administrators
of SocialWorks work because they've been feeling it just
like it was any other year.
So yeah, shout out to SocialWorks.
Anybody out there that wants to volunteer
or find out how they can help SocialWorks,
go to socialworkschi.org and, yeah.
All right, they will do it.
All right, Chance, we're going to talk about your holiday
album after this.
We'll be right back.