{"id":791769,"date":"2019-01-05T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=775415"},"modified":"2019-01-05T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:57:15","slug":"watch-chance-the-rapper-visit-sesame-street-in-t-is-for-theatre-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-chance-the-rapper-visit-sesame-street-in-t-is-for-theatre-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Chance the Rapper Visit \u2018Sesame Street\u2019 in \u2018T Is for Theatre\u2019 Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-05-at-10.14.02-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chance-the-rapper\/\">Chance the Rapper<\/a> educates Cookie Monster and Elmo on the letter T and the theater in a new <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sesame-street\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sesame-street\" data-tag=\"sesame-street\">Sesame Street<\/a><\/em> segment.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cT is for Theater,\u201d which premiered Saturday on HBO, Chance the Rapper and Cookie Monster compete for a role in a play about a monster who loves cookies. After Cookie Monster wins the role by devouring a plate of cookies, Chance the Rapper suggests, \u201cMaybe I should just be Waiter #3?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chance the Rapper\u2019s <em>Sesame Street<\/em> appearance aired over a year after he filmed his segment on the long-running PBS show: In December 2017, the rapper tweeted video of himself hanging out on the <em>Sesame Street<\/em> set with Oscar the Grouch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.9529411764706\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k5Qrv7KoDf\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/k5Qrv7KoDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chancetherapper\/status\/940656257735766016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chance the Rapper closed out 2018 by surprise-releasing a pair of new songs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-my-own-thing-the-man-who-has-everything-761773\/\">\u201cMy Own Thing\u201d and \u201cThe Man Who Has Everything,\u201d<\/a> just before December. The rapper also recently signed on to two high profile projects:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-hope-musical-755505\/\">Producing a musical<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cardi-b-chance-the-rapper-and-t-i-now-have-their-own-netflix-show-because-sure-755631\/\">judging a Netflix reality competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rappers-sesame-street-775415\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance the Rapper educates Cookie Monster and Elmo on the letter T and the theater in a new Sesame Street segment. In \u201cT is for Theater,\u201d which premiered Saturday on HBO, Chance the Rapper and Cookie Monster compete for a role in a play about a monster who loves cookies. After Cookie Monster wins the [&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":{"0":"post-791769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:41:26","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}