The Chi-Raq controversy continues.
Chance the Rapper has slammed Spike Lee over his forthcoming comedy musical, Chi-Raq, following the director’s comments at a recent Q&A, where he called the former Chicaogan of the year a “fraud.”
Come on now This guy promoting this offensive unsuccessful flop of a movie … about the Southside…in fucking Evanston…
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016
And then get mad when students at the screening challenge him on his sexist, and RACIST movie and he wanna point the finger at me
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016
Boy. You are a lame. But more importantly a liar.
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016
Now stop tweeking for I get to releasing audio of you begging me to be in that trash ass movie
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016
The pair began sparring in December, when Chance the Rapper criticised Chi-Raq and Lee responded by calling Chance out for his ties with the mayor of Chicago.
Lee told MSNBC in December: “He’s not criticized the mayor. Why? His father works for the mayor.” Chance’s father, Ken Bennett, was appointed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff and director of the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement last year.
Starring Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Hudson and John Cusack, Chi-Raq is a comedy musical that reimagines the ancient Greek play Lysistrata. In the original, the women of Greece withhold sex to stop a war; in Chiraq, the war has been replaced with Chicago gang warfare.
In other Chance the Rapper news, he’ll be donning some fangs to star as a werewolf in Austin Vesley’s Slice.
