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Chance the Rapper ‘s had quite the month.

On Aug. 2, he made a surprise appearance at Lollapalooza. On the 11th, he announced his upcoming And We Back Tour . On the 15th, he released his second studio album, Star Line , a project six years in the making. And on Aug. 19, Chance the Rapper, alongside Kristin Chenoweth, Hasan Minhaj and others, teamed on a playful social campaign to celebrate the launch of Acrobat Studio , a brand-new tool from Adobe that’s near and dear to the three-time Grammy winner’s heart.

The Chicago-born rapper chatted with The Hollywood Reporter about his unexpected songwriting process, the journey to

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