{"id":27941,"date":"2019-07-30T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1060839"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:24:21","slug":"chance-the-rapper-says-wife-kirsten-corley-saved-his-life-by-becoming-celibate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-says-wife-kirsten-corley-saved-his-life-by-becoming-celibate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Says Wife Kirsten Corley &#8221;Saved His Life&#8221; By Becoming Celibate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.690285714286\">\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\/2019610\/rs_634x1024-190710091114-634-chance-the-rapper.cm.71019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Kirsten Corley, Kensli Bennett, Chance The Rapper\" alt=\"Kirsten Corley, Kensli Bennett, Chance The Rapper\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Charley Gallay\/Getty Images for Disney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.650717703349\">\n<p><strong>Chance the Rapper<\/strong> is counting his blessings!<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old star, whose real name is <strong>Chancelor Jonathan Bennett<\/strong>, opened up about his relationship with his longtime love,&nbsp;<strong>Kirsten Corley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chatting with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nicki_minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a><\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/post\/sa.037dc780-b014-11e9-8d29-0b6ff3f86c9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Radio on Apple Music&#8217;s Beats 1<\/a>&nbsp;to discuss his new album <em>The Big Day<\/em>, the Chicago native laid it all on the table. In fact, he&nbsp;was so candid that he said his wife &#8220;saved&#8221; him by abstaining from sex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need you to hear one song on my album that has my best verse that I written in my life,&#8221; he told the <em>Pink Friday<\/em> rapper.&nbsp;&#8220;It&#8217;s called &#8220;We Go High.&#8221; I explain that my wife literally saved my life by becoming celibate and going and getting baptized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;It changed her life obviously, but we talking about me right now. It changed my life for real. Now I know exactly where my strength comes from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.950819672131\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.311475409836\">\n<p>He explained that his spiritual awakening happened after his 2016 <em>Coloring Book<\/em> album.&nbsp;He and Kirsten&nbsp;were also separated&nbsp;around this&nbsp;time and later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/chance-rapper-kirsten-corley-relationship-timeline-couple-gets-engaged-2697501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reconnected in January 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is all after <em>Coloring Book<\/em>, after I proclaimed that I love Jesus, and all that stuff. You&#8217;re never fully, fully sanctified, so I had to keep figuring it out. I had to do the Grammy&#8217;s by myself. I had to do a lot by myself. Then when my girl was gracious enough to have me back, it changed my whole life,&#8221; he shared. &#8220;Now I know exactly where it all comes from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201926\/rs_1024x759-190306132431-1024-chance-the-rapper.cm.3619.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Chance The Rapper, Kirsten Corley\" alt=\"Chance The Rapper, Kirsten Corley\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Swan Gallet\/WWD\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22\">\n<p>The Grammy winner added, &#8220;The other day, last night, or the night before, I was lower than I ever been. I know the caricature of me is super&#8230; positive. I was lower than I ever felt in my life, and I really had to get down on [my] knees and be like, &#8216;I know I can&#8217;t solve this problem by myself.&#8217; So I&#8217;m here right now happier than I ever been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it seems Chance and his longtime love are happier than ever. The two tied the knot earlier this year in Newport Beach, Calif. They said their &#8220;I Do&#8217;s&#8221; in front of 150 family members, friends&nbsp;and of course, the couple&#8217;s 3-year-old daughter <strong>Kensli Bennett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Making things more&nbsp;exciting for the newlyweds? They&#8217;re expecting baby number two! They made the special announcement in March.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.058441558442\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.8311688311688\">\n<p>To hear more about Chance&#8217;s upcoming album, his relationship with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> and more, you can listen to&nbsp;his interview on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/post\/sa.037dc780-b014-11e9-8d29-0b6ff3f86c9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Radio on Apple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1060839\/chance-the-rapper-says-wife-kirsten-corley-saved-his-life-by-becoming-celibate?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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Chatting with&nbsp;Nicki Minaj on Queen Radio on Apple Music&#8217;s Beats 1&nbsp;to discuss his new album The Big Day, the Chicago native laid it [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-16 19:37:29","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":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}