{"id":26361,"date":"2016-08-15T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26361"},"modified":"2016-08-15T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:17:14","slug":"watch-chance-the-rapper-give-telling-performance-of-summer-friends-on-gma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-08\/watch-chance-the-rapper-give-telling-performance-of-summer-friends-on-gma\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Chance The Rapper Give Telling Performance of &#8220;Summer Friends&#8221; On GMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3-650x364.jpg\" alt=\"Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3-650x364.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3-450x252.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cp2mtM0UkAA0iU3.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a long, strange trip it&#8217;s been for <a href=\"http:\/\/chanceraps.com\/\"><strong>Chance The Rapper<\/strong><\/a>. As evidence that the Chicago phenom is blowing up everywhere (thanks Mom!),<strong> Chance<\/strong> made his daytime TV debut this morning on <strong>Good Morning America<\/strong>. Following on the heals of his appearances this weekend at <strong>Justin Vernon&#8217;s Eaux Claires Music Festival<\/strong>, <strong>Chance<\/strong> and pals <strong>Francis Starlite (Francis and the Lights)<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Cottontale (The Social Experiment)<\/strong>\u00a0evidently teleported overnight to appear on<strong> GMA<\/strong> this morning. Watch below as Chance and the gang give a stellar performance of <em><strong>Summer Friends <\/strong><\/em>(replete with <strong>Vernon-esque<\/strong> vocals from <strong>Starlite<\/strong>; lyrics at bottom)\u00a0off his critically-acclaimed monster &#8220;mixtape&#8221; <em><strong>Coloring Book<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0You can also check out\u00a0<strong>Chance&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0superb interview on the show\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/chance-rapper-talks-finding-independent-success-unique-style\/story?id=41384401\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>. As expected, he comes off very well.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DiQkDZ1ofOE\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Summer Friends:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, oh, oh, incredible<br \/>\nMy lord is incredible<br \/>\nI believe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Socks on concrete, jolly rancher kids<br \/>\nI was talking back and now I gotta stay at grandma&#8217;s crib<br \/>\nBunch of tank top, nappy headed bike-stealing Chatham boys<br \/>\nNone of my brothers ain&#8217;t had no dad<br \/>\nNone of my brothers ain&#8217;t have no choice<br \/>\nJJ, Mikey, Lil Derek and them<br \/>\n79th street was America then<br \/>\nIce cream truck and the beauty supply<br \/>\nBlockbuster movies and Harold&#8217;s again<br \/>\nWe still catching lightning bugs<br \/>\nWhen the plague hit the backyard<br \/>\nHad to come in at dark cause the big shawtys act hard<br \/>\nOkay now, day camp at Grand Crossing<br \/>\nFirst day, homey shooting<br \/>\nSummer school get to losing students<br \/>\nBut the CPD getting new recruitment<br \/>\nOur summer don&#8217;t, our summer<br \/>\nOur summer don&#8217;t get no shine no more<br \/>\nOur summer die, our summer time don&#8217;t got no time no more<\/p>\n<p>(You&#8217;re my friend)<br \/>\nSummer friends don&#8217;t stay<br \/>\nSummer friends don&#8217;t stay around<br \/>\nSummer friends, summer friends<br \/>\nSummer friends don&#8217;t stay<br \/>\nSummer friends don&#8217;t stay, hey<br \/>\nStay around here<\/p>\n<p>Oh I used to kill &#8217;em with the long hair<br \/>\nMomma hair salon doing perms out the armchair<br \/>\nDad was working late, he treat the crib like it&#8217;s a timeshare<br \/>\nI would mow some lawns<br \/>\nFold my ones like a lawn chair, huh, huh!<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m the same way, over time all the time, every night, hey<br \/>\nReady my blessing, now I&#8217;m ready how I wait<br \/>\nNever let a friendship get in my way<br \/>\nNever let a blog get in my way<br \/>\nMake the whole song do whatever I say<br \/>\n79, 79, 79, place<br \/>\n79, 79, 79, place<br \/>\nSome of my homegirls got lost in the paperwork<br \/>\nThey was good friends but I faked the flirt<br \/>\nCause if it ain&#8217;t work, can&#8217;t make it work<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been a minute since I called on a friend<br \/>\nScrewed up and messed all my friends<br \/>\nAll my friends, all my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stick around<br \/>\nSummer friends, summer&#8230;<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my friend&#8230;<br \/>\nSummer friends don&#8217;t stick around<br \/>\nStick around<br \/>\nAnd some of us&#8230;<br \/>\n79, 79, 79, hey<br \/>\n79, 79, 79, hey<br \/>\n79, 79, 79, hey, hey, hey<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re my friend<br \/>\n79, 79, 79, hey, 79<br \/>\nSo put your head on my shoulder<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide, hey<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide, hey<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide, hey<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide, hey<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide<br \/>\nCitywide, citywide, citywide&#8230;.<br \/>\nI will wait around for you<br \/>\nI will wait around for you<br \/>\nSo lay your head on my table<br \/>\nLay your head on my table<\/p>\n<p>May the Lord give your journey mercy<br \/>\nMay you be successful, grant you favor<br \/>\nAnd bring you back safely, I love you<\/p>\n<p>When I was so young before I could remember<br \/>\nI would always treat my gang like family members<br \/>\nEven when I changed, I never changed up<br \/>\nI always bring my friends, my friends, my friends, my friends up<br \/>\nWhen I was so young before I could remember<br \/>\nI would always treat my gang like family members<br \/>\nEven when I changed, I never changed up<br \/>\nI always bring my friends, my friends, my friends, my friends up&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a long, strange trip it&#8217;s been for Chance The Rapper. As evidence that the Chicago phenom is blowing up everywhere (thanks Mom!), Chance made his daytime TV debut this morning on Good Morning America. Following on the heals of his appearances this weekend at Justin Vernon&#8217;s Eaux Claires Music Festival, Chance and pals Francis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26367,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26361\/revisions\/26367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}