Chance The Rapper Delays ‘Star Line’ Release Due to Fans’ Impatience

Chance The Rapper has been hinting at his new project, Star Line, for quite some time. During a recent livestream chat, he gave his fans a unique condition for its release: they must refer to the project by its proper name instead of just saying “drop the album.”

“Alright, so this was the main point I was trying to make,” Chance explained. “Stop calling it the album. And I don’t mean that in an ungrateful way. I’m grateful that people are putting in my comments, ‘Drop the album.’ I’m not going to drop the album until y’all start calling it Star Line.”

He further elaborated, “That’s for all the other artists. That’s for everybody else, whose work I also appreciate. But what I’m doing is something different. It’s something very specific. It’s called Star Line… I’ve been saying one specific phrase for coming up on two or three years now… If y’all say, ‘Drop Star Line enough, it’s going to make me drop Star Line… I don’t know what the album is. I know about a Star Line.”

Back in June, Chance indicated that the album is either “83,” “83.5,” or “82.7” percent finished. In late July, he hosted a listening event to give fans a preview of what the project might include. He’s also released several songs already, such as “Buried Alive,” “Together,” and “Stars Out,” along with “Writing Exercise” freestyles demonstrating his lyrical progress in reaction to the lukewarm reception of his last album, The Big Day.