{"id":264453,"date":"2018-12-31T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T00:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1000472"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T00:12:36","slug":"chance-the-rapper-reveals-he-saved-a-man-from-fiery-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-reveals-he-saved-a-man-from-fiery-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Reveals He Saved a Man From Fiery Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018211\/rs_634x1024-180311181437-634a.Chance-The-Rapper-iHeartRadio-Music-Awards.ms.031118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chance The Rapper, 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards\" alt=\"Chance The Rapper, 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27\">\n<p>The new year often inspires a time of reflection, and for\u00a0<strong>Chance the Rapper<\/strong>, that meant sharing\u00a0details of a terrifying incident that took place months ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hip-hop superstar took to Instagram Stories on Monday with several memories from 2018, including one where he pulled an unconscious man out of a burning vehicle over the Easter holiday. Chance, 25, said he was on his way to church on April 1, 2018 when he witnessed a car going &#8220;like 90 [miles per hour]&#8221; barrel into a wall after exiting a freeway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was the only person out there when it first happened,&#8221; Chance explained, &#8220;and his car was on fire so I had to break his window, take off his seatbelt, let his seat back and pull a whole grown man out [of] the car unconscious.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;I was only by myself at first, then two older men helped me pull folks out the front after I got the doors open.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>The &#8220;No Problem&#8221; performer even admitted to thinking the entire car accident was a prank\u00a0\u00e0 la\u00a0<em>Punk&#8217;d<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.059405940594\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181131\/rs_634x1024-181231154839-634-chance-the-rapper-instagram-me-123118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Chance the Rapper\" alt=\"Chance the Rapper\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15.597315436242\">\n<p>Unfortunately, Chance said he was &#8220;never able to find out if [the] dude was alright,&#8221; and asked his 9.3 million followers for any leads in getting to the bottom of what happened after he left the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a fan\u00a0<em>would<\/em> contact the\u00a03-time Grammy winner with some wonderful news about the fate of the unidentified man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A kid DM&#8217;d me saying it was his uncle and that he lived!!&#8221; Chance <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chancetherapper\/status\/1079857962984882176\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite a year for the rapper, who in July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/949417\/chance-the-rapper-is-engaged-to-kirsten-corley-watch-the-surprise-proposal\" target=\"_blank\">proposed<\/a> to his longtime girlfriend\u00a0<strong>Kirsten Corley<\/strong>. The couple are the proud parents to a 3-year-old little girl named\u00a0<strong>Kensli<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000472\/chance-the-rapper-reveals-he-saved-a-man-from-fiery-car-crash?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartMedia The new year often inspires a time of reflection, and for\u00a0Chance the Rapper, that meant sharing\u00a0details of a terrifying incident that took place months ago.\u00a0 The hip-hop superstar took to Instagram Stories on Monday with several memories from 2018, including one where he pulled an unconscious man out of a [&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":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 07:14:23","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":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}