{"id":491655,"date":"2019-10-27T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=904296"},"modified":"2019-10-27T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:00:25","slug":"see-chance-the-rapper-pay-tribute-to-chicago-second-best-things-with-snl-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-chance-the-rapper-pay-tribute-to-chicago-second-best-things-with-snl-monologue\/","title":{"rendered":"See Chance the Rapper Pay Tribute to Chicago, \u2018Second-Best\u2019 Things With \u2018SNL\u2019 Monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-27-at-7.47.53-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><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> opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/tv-recaps\/chance-the-rapper-snl-recap-904280\/\">his episode of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> with a musical monologue that paid tribute to both his native Chicago and \u201csecond-best\u201d things.<\/p>\n<p>After throwing his support behind the teachers\u2019 strike in Chicago \u2013 Chance wore a Chicago Teachers Union sweatshirt for the monologue \u2013 the rapper delivered an ode to \u201cthe Second City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the second-best is better than the first,\u201d Chance the Rapper said before unspooling a list of runners-up that he prefers to the universally recognized best thing: The search engine Bing, Burger King fries, Pepsi, Luigi, Bee Gees\u2019 Barry Gibb, Chili\u2019s Too and NBC Nineties sitcom <em>California Dreams<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the kind of guy who likes the second-best better \/ I\u2019m the kind of guy who likes second best one \/ I like DMC better than Run,\u201d Chance the Rapper noted before <em>SNL<\/em>\u2018s Kyle Mooney joined him onstage.<\/p>\n<p>To close out the musical monologue, Chance looped back to his native Windy City. \u201cI\u2019m the kind of guy who likes second-best best \/ I think Chicago is better than the rest \/ I take seconds at dinner and second glances \/ I believe in second chances,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love my wife and my family is true \/ A month ago we welcomed daughter number two \/ Now I\u2019m in New York, it\u2019s great to be alive \/ I\u2019m back for the second time hosting <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-snl-chicago-monologue-904296\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance the Rapper opened his episode of Saturday Night Live with a musical monologue that paid tribute to both his native Chicago and \u201csecond-best\u201d things. After throwing his support behind the teachers\u2019 strike in Chicago \u2013 Chance wore a Chicago Teachers Union sweatshirt for the monologue \u2013 the rapper delivered an ode to \u201cthe Second [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 04:14:28","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}