When Chance The Rapper was coming off his Grammy-winning mixtape Coloring Book , a 14-song offering full of detailed stories, stellar features, and inspirational lyrics, it seemed much of the music world was counting the seconds until its follow-up dropped.

That came in 2019 with his first studio album, The Big Day, and surprisingly, his status as an industry darling diminished right before our eyes and his. That's because it was reviewed harshly for its 22-song length, its mushy concept about marriage, and lack of cohesion.

The game plan for some artists after a musical misstep is to quickly release new material to generate some distance between themselves and a widely-panned project. However, the criticism did the opposite for Chance, because it yanked him out of his creative

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