If it seems odd that a rapper who calls himself Lil Chano From 79th would be chosen to eulogize THE GREATEST, on primetime network TV, in front of the world’s reigning celebrity athletes, then consider how Chance has become an iconoclast in his own right. He nods admiringly at Chance grinding inside the sound booth: “You think Rihanna does this?”Ĭhance the Rapper: The Billboard Photo Shoot “Their voices, the physicality of them, their vulnerability.” Chance’s engineer Jeff Lane has been waiting for five hours to record the completed verses. “I see so much of my dad in Ali,” says Chance. Chance decides the song needs to be “more sort of liturgical” after his thoughts turn to his father, Ken, a political operative who has been a deputy assistant to President Obama and more recently Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff. As a girl on the South Side, she lived near the boxing legend, and she often has recounted how she braved the walk to his front door only to discover that he was out of town. So instead Chance imagines the song as a letter written by his mother, Lisa, to Ali. Watch Chance the Rapper Perform Moving Tribute to Muhammad Ali at the ESPY Awards
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