Chance The Rapper purchased a local Chicago news site but what does that mean for the future of journalism?
“If you can't beat them. Buy them” won't be an apt headline anymore because Chance The Rapper did not just buy a local news media in Chicago but plans to beat the rival media house that wrote a scathing opinion piece about him last year. Surprising his fans with four new tracks he explains in one that the reason he purchased Chicagoist is "to run you racist b*****s outta business.” The aforementioned "racist b*****s" referred to is the Chicago Sun-Times, who last year brought up a child-support dispute between Chance and the mother of his daughter, Kristen Corley, after Chance donated $1 million to Chicago Public Schools.
On a track titled “I Might Need Security,” he raps; "And I can’t do nothing right, they gon’ always be at me/ I missed a Crain’s interview, they tried leaking my addy/ I donate to the schools next, they call me a deadbeat daddy/ But Sun-Times get in that Rauner business/ I got a hit-list so long I don’t know how to finish/ I bought the Chicagoist just to run you racist b*****s out of business."