Chance The Rapper Says He Auditioned for a Role in Upcoming N.W.A. Biopic Straight Outta Compton

Chance The Rapper Says He Auditioned for a Role in Upcoming N.W.A. Biopic Straight Outta Compton

Chance The Rapper revealed he auditioned for a role in the upcoming N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, in a recent interview with Hannibal Burres for Interview Magazine. According to Chance: “I read for Dre, but it wasn’t in God’s plan.”

He also said that his upcoming album is “very much so a Beyoncé kind of thing. So I can’t say the date of the project,” he said, “but I can say that it’s super dope”. He also discussed his recent ventures into the comedy world:

CHANCE: You know, I’ve been dabbling in the comedy world, showing up at random improv shows. Been on stage doing four minute sets. So I figured, “Hannibal’s going give me my big break.” I can come out to NY and fucking crush it.

BURESS: I haven’t really seen your stand up yet. I think it’s a tough transition. It’s easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher. I mean, your name is “Chance the Rapper.”

CHANCE: You mean for me to go into comedy, I’m going to have change my name?

BURESS: “Chance the Comedian.”

CHANCE: I’m probably going to do some comedy shows at my new sets. I can be very funny. I actually went out for a role in Empire.

BURESS: Oh yeah?

CHANCE: I wasn’t trying to be on the show at all, but me going out for a role on Empire is something me and my friends would find humorous.

BURESS: I was going to ask you about that, actually. Are you interested in acting, things like that?

CHANCE: Yeah. In real life I am. I have to clear it out that in real life I didn’t actually go out for Empire. I just thought it would be funny if I said something like that. 

Read the rest of the interview here.

No release date has yet been announced for Chance’s forthcoming album Surf. Previous Social Experiment tracks released include “No Better Blues”, “Sunday Candy”, and “Nothing Came to Me”. Chance’s debut solo LP, which will be released after Surf, is also in the works. It will feature Andre 3000, as well as the previously reported Frank Ocean and J. Cole. 

Listen to “No Better Blues”:

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