Last Friday, Chancelor Bennett, known as Chance the Rapper, came out with his new hit album Coloring Book that includes 14 new songs. Chance signed a special two week contract with Apple Music stating that they would have the only recording of Coloring Book available, but another website called djbooth.net released it, breaking their contract. His album features Kanye West, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Future and many more hit rappers.

Chance started his career in high school when he became suspended for 10 days, during which he created and released his first mixtape, Ten Days. Forbes magazine caught ahold of the mixtape and featured him in a column which acquired rapper Childish Gambino’s attention who offered Chance the opening act during his 2012 American World Tour.

Although I only went over a few of Chance’s new masterpieces, I strongly recommend going through his whole album and listening to how all the songs work together to create his own story.

Juke Jam

I do not like Justin Bieber, so when I first read that he was featured on this song I was not thrilled to hear it; I was expecting another version of Bieber’s first single ‘Baby’. But Chance starts off with a soft beginning and then slowly the beat transforms into an almost jazzy-feel with Bieber’s soft voice hitting the higher verses almost perfectly. Chance reminisces about an innocent relationship of his past, thus adding to the slow and connected feeling the song creates in the audience’s minds.

All Night

This song starts off with a more upbeat, almost tropical feel with background singers. Chance has a very fast upbeat voice and a synchronized chorus; he highlights his strengths by jumping from octave to octave perfectly. All Night is a great summer party song, it’s upbeat tune is perfect for dancing. Throughout the song Chance implies “he doesn’t trust no one” because people try to take advantage of him and his newfound fame.

Finish Line

“Finish Line” consists of  a huge metaphor that compares the “finish line” to being famous. Featuring upcoming artists such as Eryn Allen Kane and T-Pain, Chance helps them tell their story about how their faith in God has led them to the “finish line”. The song definitely showcases the gospel choir voices, but also switches halfway through and focuses on single artist voices. Being the longest song on Chance’s album, it introduces upcoming artists and also allows them to share their story making it one of my favorite songs on Coloring Book.

No Problem

“No Problem” gives the audience almost a flashback of the older Chance songs by bringing back the passionate faster rap. Featuring 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, Chance again manages to create a musical masterpiece. Their voices blend together where sometimes you can’t even tell where one voice starts and the other one ends. They all blend into a collage of voices, each adding a new dimension to the song. The song is directed at record labels who want to change Chance’s image and make him less original and more “modeled”. Chance strongly implies that they want “no problem” with him otherwise he will fight back.