![]() ![]() His 1928 hit “It’s Tight Like That” recorded alongside fellow Chicagoan Tampa Red would go on to sell 7 million copies.Įven with all of his musical successes, Dorsey was not without his own struggles. He was an incredibly successful blues musician who played alongside some of the most famous singers in the city. During his early days in Chicago, Dorsey played under the moniker “Georgia Tom”. His father was a minister and his mother the church organist.Īlthough his parents’ occupations seem to make Dorsey’s eventual path in life seem obvious, his early work was entirely secular. Like Kanye West who would come after him, Dorsey was born in Georgia. Dorsey arrived in Chicago, the city that he would call home for the rest of his life and the place where he would eventually change the trajectory of African-American music. What makes Chance, and this album, so great, is that he builds off of the struggles and risks taken by artists before him, creating art that is as confident in its religiosity as it is in its musical prowess.ġ00 years ago, a young Thomas A. It is the next step in a progression of Chicago artists as old as gospel music itself. Coloring Book was not created in a vacuum. Chicago lays claim as the start of popular gospel music, and the significance of this fact has not been lost on Kanye and Chance, the city’s most creative sons. That the two artists both hail from Chicago is no coincidence the city’s proud tradition of music is one that rivals any other in the world. However, when the scope of time is broadened, Coloring Book seems more and more like a natural progression from West, a sort of College Dropout 2.0 that builds on the themes that West has spent most of his life working on. Due to the proximity of their releases, comparing West’s Pablo to Coloring Book seems like the natural step, with Chance living up to his promise of a gospel album and Kanye failing. This is what Kanye promised on The Life of Pablo, and while Kanye provided an album grand in its scope, any piety available was lost by his promise to “f**k the church up by drinking at the Communion”. Coloring Book doesn’t just have gospel influences, it is in fact a gospel album. ![]() In his third solo project, Chance has created a piece of art that moves past the traditional realms of hip- hop. In their review of the album, Pitchfork called it “one of the strongest rap albums released this year…”, but while there is no doubting the fact that it is undoubtedly this: a rap album, what makes Coloring Book so special is that it is more. The project has been almost universally hailed as a masterpiece. This verse, perhaps the standout on the album, would be a sort of prelude to Coloring Book, in which Chance takes his “God dream” to a whole new level. The young rapper already had an expansive catalogue of two solo mixtapes, a collaborative free- jazz and hip hop album, and a number of impressive featured verses, most notably on “Ultralight Beam” from Kanye West’s 2016 release, The Life of Pablo. “I don't think the Kardashians are going away any time soon.When Chance the Rapper’s third solo mixtape, Coloring Book, dropped, the internet was abuzz. The Kardashian-Jenner tribe is ending its 20-season show in June, but Franklin has no plans to put to bed. “I was very happy to see that she lived up to my every expectation of not being interested. I feel like I created this little monster, if you will,” Franklin said. Kim got her daughter on FaceTime to meet Franklin and she barely looked up from her bowl of ice cream. So what does North think of all of this? She was unaware, and unimpressed. Her posts, paired with video clips and photos, have poked fun at just about everyone in the Kardashian world, noting Kim's reputation as a terrible dancer and dragging Kim's sister Kourtney and Scott Disick with: “Hating work is what keeps Scott and Auntie Kourt together.” ![]() ![]() She started on Tumblr but migrated as other platforms developed. “I was telling a friend, can you imagine being North West and you have to wear this cheap Babies R Us? She should be in Prada, Balenciaga, Chanel!,” Franklin said. Franklin decided to make North a tad on the snarky side at a time when Kim and dad Kanye West often dressed their first born in black, hadn't yet revealed her face and the Kardashians had a kid clothing line at Babies R Us. Billy Crystal and Queen Latifah look marvelous as they headline this year's Kennedy Center Honorsįranklin, who manages websites and internet service for a state agency, said she got the idea from Suri's Burn Book, a popular blog that's still alive on social media commenting on the world from the eyes of Suri Cruise. ![]()
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