Chicago Tribune — Chicago's largest music festival returns Thursday with some new features and a lineup expected to draw 100,000 fans each day to Grant Park. Chance the Rapper, the Killers, Muse and Arcade Fire are slated to headline Lollapalooza, which runs Thursday ... more info

AllHipHop — "THE CITY NEEDS US TO BE UNIFIED" more info

AllHipHop — WATCH THE TWO RAP SUPERSTARS SHARE A STAGE IN LIL CHANO'S HOMETOWN more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar has been peppering his DAMN. tour with surprise guests. In New York it was 2 Chainz, in Detroit it was J. Cole, and last night at Chicago's United Center it was hometown hero Chance The Rapper. Chance performed "No Problem," which ha... more info

Chicago Tribune — The woman behind the ticket window sat up a bit higher in her chair. She spotted a teenager in a high school track T-shirt racing toward her, moving so fast that when he reached her window he threw his hands flat against the glass, as if to slow his ... more info

Chicago Tribune — In a 2013 interview, when Chance the Rapper was still little known outside of Chicago, he dismissed the notion of ever seeing the need to sign with a music label. "It's a dead industry," he said. This from a kid fresh out of Jones College Prep High S... more info

Chicago Tribune — With Chicago's national reputation ranging from tourist heaven to gang war zone, it seems appropriate that two of its brightest stars are rap golden boy Chance the Rapper and rap bad boy Chief Keef. Beyond their divergent musical styles, the artists ... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Kendrick Lamar, with this latest masterpiece “DAMN.,” continues to represent himself as an artist for the people. more info

Stereogum — Before every game, athletes normally have a playlist they can turn to for motivational purposes. For Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper, his artists of choice are Logic and Chance The Rapper. On Wednesday (July 26), Harper's fiery playlist re... more info

Stereogum — About a month ago, MTV laid off most of the journalists who worked for its recently-relaunched MTV News website. After the mass layoff, SPIN reported a story about how the site never really had a chance, since MTV would remove articles that were even... more info