Chance The Rapper announces new album Surf, working with Frank Ocean

Chance The Rapper has announced his new album Surf, featuring his live band The Social Experiment. 

Following on from the incredible Acid Rap mixtape, Chance The Rapper has announced a new LP that will also focus on his live band The Social Experiement. It will also be available as a free download and may be released to the internet by the end of the year.

“The band has been backing me on a lot of the shows, so when you go to a Chance the Rapper show it’s billed as a Chance the Rapper show,” he told Billboard, “and even though you bought a ticket for a Chance the Rapper show, you end up going to a Social Experiment concert, you know? And you get the full experience of the musicality of four seasoned players.”

Moving on to discuss playing with a live band he said: “It’s something different. It’s something new. It’s a bit of theater. It’s a culmination of going to all these dope concerts and seeing cool Broadway plays. A lot of influence has come from The Lion King musical. You could probably tell if you listen to ‘Arthur’. We’ve been trying to take in all these cool, different outside cultural experiences and make that into a free listenable project. That’s the new thing.”

While there are no guests confirmed for the album just yet, Chance has recently been in the studio with Pharrell, Frank Ocean, Rick Rubin, the members of Migos, J. Cole, and singer Emily King.