{"id":2448560,"date":"2019-09-11T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=882885"},"modified":"2019-09-11T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:20:32","slug":"watch-chance-the-rapper-channel-motown-with-eternal-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-chance-the-rapper-channel-motown-with-eternal-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Chance the Rapper Channel Motown With \u2018Eternal\u2019 on \u2018Ellen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/chance.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><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> donned a tuxedo and channeled Motown choreography on Wednesday\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ellen\" data-tag=\"ellen\">Ellen<\/a><\/em>, performing his recent song \u201cEternal\u201d with fellow Chicago-based rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/smino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smino\" data-tag=\"smino\">Smino<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Flanked by a pair of backing vocalists, Chance alternated between singing and rapping as he clapped and shimmied on an elevated stage \u2014 offering the song a classy, Temptations-styled vibe. Smino joined halfway through for a lengthy verse, and host Ellen DeGeneres \u2014 decked out in her own white jacket and black bowtie \u2014 made a surprise cameo in the final chorus, much to Chance\u2019s delight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEternal\u201d appears on Chance\u2019s July-issued debut LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/chance-the-rapper-the-big-day-865145\/\"><em>The Big Day<\/em><\/a>, which follows his trio of acclaimed mixtapes: 2012\u2019s <em>10 Day<\/em>, 2013\u2019s <em>Acid Rap<\/em> and 2016\u2019s Grammy-winning <em>Coloring Book<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The emcee, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-kanye-west-chicago-sunday-service-881521\/\">performed \u201cUltralight Beam\u201d at Kanye West\u2019s Sunday Service in Chicago<\/a>, will promote <em>The Big Day<\/em> in 2020 with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-big-day-tour-2020-882106\/\">rescheduled North American tour<\/a>. His 2019 itinerary includes a Chicago show on September 28th, a pair of Las Vegas festival dates (Life Is Beautiful on September 20th, iHeartRadio on September 21st) and the Miami Beach Pop Festival on November 10th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-eternal-ellen-882885\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance the Rapper donned a tuxedo and channeled Motown choreography on Wednesday\u2019s Ellen, performing his recent song \u201cEternal\u201d with fellow Chicago-based rapper Smino. Flanked by a pair of backing vocalists, Chance alternated between singing and rapping as he clapped and shimmied on an elevated stage \u2014 offering the song a classy, Temptations-styled vibe. Smino joined [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448560","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 15:20:48","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}