{"id":974134,"date":"2019-12-19T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T03:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929426"},"modified":"2019-12-19T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T03:53:43","slug":"chance-the-rapper-common-to-perform-at-2020-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-common-to-perform-at-2020-nba-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper, Common to Perform at 2020 NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CommonChance.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chicago\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chance-the-rapper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chance-the-rapper\" data-tag=\"chance-the-rapper\">Chance the Rapper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/common\/\" id=\"auto-tag_common\" data-tag=\"common\">Common<\/a> and Taylor Bennett will serve as performers when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nba\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nba\" data-tag=\"nba\">NBA<\/a>\u2019s All-Star Weekend heads to the Windy City in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chance the Rapper will perform at halftime of the NBA All-Star game on Sunday, February 16th at Chicago\u2019s United Center, home of the Bulls, with the NBA promising a medley of tracks from <em>The Big Day<\/em> along with special guests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Common will serve as the game\u2019s emcee and provide the player introductions as well as \u201cwelcome fans to Chicago with a moving narrative about what basketball means to the city prior to introducing players from both teams before tip-off of the NBA All-Star Game,\u201d the NBA said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Taylor Bennett, Chance the Rapper\u2019s brother, will perform at halftime of the NBA Rising Stars game, held Friday, February 14th. The Bennett brothers will also serve as \u201cNBA All-Star Ambassadors, partnering with the NBA, the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Sports Commission to develop community and fan-driven program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chance the Rapper\u2019s NBA All-Star performance will be one of the lone opportunities to see the artist perform in the early half of 2020 as the rapper recently announced that his postponed tour in support of<em> The Big Day<\/em> has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-cancels-the-big-tour-927439\/\">canceled<\/a> entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI know it sucks and its been a lot of back and forth with reschedules and rerouting, but it\u2019s for the best,\u201d Chance told fans. \u201cI\u2019m gonna take this time to be with family, make some new music and develop my best show to date.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-common-2020-nba-all-star-game-performers-929426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\u2019s own Chance the Rapper, Common and Taylor Bennett will serve as performers when the NBA\u2019s All-Star Weekend heads to the Windy City in February. Chance the Rapper will perform at halftime of the NBA All-Star game on Sunday, February 16th at Chicago\u2019s United Center, home of the Bulls, with the NBA promising a medley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 01:09:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}