Chance the Rapper “Star Side Intro” (Live Performance) | Open Mic - video Dailymotion

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Chance the Rapper pulled up to Genius to deliver an electrifying performance of his track “Star Side Intro.” The introspective opener from his latest album 'STAR LINE' flips Cleo Sol’s “Life Will Be” and Three 6 Mafia’s “Mafia Niggaz” into something entirely his own. On today’s Open Mic, the Chicago MC lights up the stage with his unmatched energy.

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00:00The Chicago nigga

00:07Yeah

00:08Surprise, it's the boy who lived

00:11It's the West Chatham Santa with some toys to give

00:13A 38 special I call Noisy Cricket

00:16I got a chain on now called Roy G. Biff

00:18It's the new, new edition like poison

00:20Biff Belle DeVoe, it's time to make that noise again

00:23Lorraine Hill said she see me on the voice again

00:25But this the end of the road like Boyz II Men

00:27Said use your pen, baby use your heart child

00:30Where's your viewpoint, where's your art style

00:32Sometimes a teardrop can make your heart smile

00:35Looking for a sign and he sends a star shout

00:37Fresh off surviving the coup d'etat

00:39The music stop, you just might lose your spot

00:41No fairytale enders if you lose the plot

00:44It was written in a notebook if you forgot

00:46It's a love letter

00:49I used to hate math, used to love letters

00:51They had me in the class with the dumb niggas

00:54This nigga come to class with an umbrella

00:56This school day walker, I'm a sun dweller

00:58Until I met a brother Mike, he said

01:00Young fella, everybody dies, some write poems

01:02So I raise my right arm and I said write on

01:05Put my name on that don't get no fuck list

01:07America's own niggas, you can't trust list

01:09I got a Sig Sauer called MC Hammer

01:11I got a chain on now called you can't touch this

01:14I said I gotta figure out a huh

01:16Gotta figure out a way to get this money by the mom

01:19If you know me it ain't funny anymore

01:21If you owe me ain't no running anymore

01:23Oh, life will be

01:26Ha!

01:27Be

01:28Put on that full armor

01:30Learned that from my mama

01:32She said

01:33Life will be

01:35Just you believe in

01:37Separate the waters

01:39It's a fleet of ocean liners

01:41Star side

01:42Kingin' for Starline

01:43Workin' for Starline

01:44Kingin' for Starline

01:45Kingin' for Starline

01:46You better

01:47Kingin' for Starline

01:48Workin' for Starline

01:49Workin' for Starline

01:50And we back

01:51Look mama, I seen a star

01:54Big and pretty and it ain't that far

01:56Bright and bold and black like me

01:58And it's right in the mirror I'm shinin' hard

02:01The last time that my check got commas

02:03My wits got horses, my chains got blinders

02:05The teachers got laptops, the kids got binders

02:08Celebrity bar, but my stars all lined up

02:10The three went platinum, the one went diamond

02:12I had a F minus, but that's behind us

02:15My pen on paper worth millions of dollars

02:17Shout out to the fact that he still ain't signed us

02:19No contract, no fine print

02:21No lease, no co-signment

02:23I emptied the safe for a case

02:25I ain't never been broken

02:26But you don't know how broke I've been

02:28Tell me how can you now afford to file divorce

02:30The child support, the back door

02:32Take the trial to court

02:33Either I'm the best or these times is good

02:35It's only two reasons this shit could rhyme this good

02:38Heavy is the crown, I'm ahead my time

02:40I left breadcrumbs when I read my rhymes

02:42So if I catch a red dot to the dome

02:44They'll find me with a note on my head saying you read my mind

02:47Pin gon' flow God, I'm your vessel

02:50Now bless my soul God, we gon' wrestle

02:52The writings on the wall baby, it's a fresco

02:54It's a death note, it's a manifesto

02:56Do you believe it?

03:01In the armor

03:03I learned that from my mama

03:05She said life

03:06Life will be

03:07Life will be

03:08Life will be

03:09Just you believe it

03:10Separate the waters

03:12It's a fleet of ocean liners

03:14Star side

03:15Life will be

03:16Hey

03:18Dance break

03:20Dance break

03:21Ha ha ha

03:22Applause

03:23Applause

03:24Applause

03:25Up

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