Chance the Rapper also went by a different name. Chance The Rapper joined Ebro Darden for an in-person conversation at Chicago’s flagship Apple Michigan Avenue Store. Their discussion centered the momentous 10th anniversary of Chance’s breakthrough mixtape, Acid Rap. In this engaging interview, Chance shared he almost was “Tony Jizzle.”
“My original name for a short period of time was Tony Jizzle,” Chance revealed. “It would’ve been a whole different trajectory. Still in the same space I’m in, but just a different path to getting right back here.”
He added, “I could rhyme a lot of things with Jizzle and it was just like I always wanted the name Tony. Tony or Max when I was a kid. I wanted to be white when I was little, man, I wanted a name like Tony or Max or I don’t know, some cool Scott.”
As we all know, Chance decided to stick with a variation of his birth name, bringing him much success.
“I feel like Chance the Rapper is also a cool name,” Chance said. “You don’t know that many people named Chance and then it’s like you could just be like it’s Chance. I’d be like Chance who? You know in Chicago they call me Chance da Rapper. Really they say Chandler rapper.”
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