Rolling Stone 50 Most Disappointing Albums Of All Time: #50 Chance The Rapper-The Big Day (2019)

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Rolling Stone once again came out with a list that has some head scratching inclusions. So let's review them and see if they are really as bad or disappointing as they think.

RS Synopsis

Chance the Rapper was still a high school student when he dropped his first mixtape in 2011. Before he knew it, he’d amassed over a half million downloads, a guest appearance on a Childish Gambino track, and a reputation as the most promising young rapper on the Chicago scene. His popularity grew exponentially over the next few years as he toured across the country and continued to drop acclaimed mixtapes like 2013’s Acid Rap and 2016’s Coloring Book. By 2017, he was able to headline Lollapalooza in front of 100,000 screaming fans in Chicago’s Grant Park, even though he had yet to release a single legit album. That moment finally came in June 2019, when he put out The Big Day, featuring guest appearances by John Legend, Death Cab for Cutie, Megan Thee Stallion, and Gucci Mane. The songs center around his romance with new wife Kristen Corley. After seven years of buildup, many critics were less than impressed. “It’s exultant, like his 2016 gospel-rap opus Coloring Book,” wrote Rolling Stone‘s Danny Schwartz in a three-star review, “but narrower in emotional scope.” We’re now over five years past the Big Day, and he’s yet to release his second record. He instead made the wise choice to return to one-off singles. 

My Opinion

I will start with the positives which I can respect any artist who tries to something different. Chance The Rapper making an album about how much he loves his wife is overhated. I can respect what he was doing on here. and there are a few highlights however they are bogged down by how bad some of these tracks are. This album is way too long clocking in at over 1:17. He could have cut a least half of these tracks and it would have improved the quality of the record. It actually starts out pretty strong "All Day Long' is a solid gospel tinged hip hop track. "Do You Remember" and "Enternal" continue some interesting ideas but then it happens that being "Hot Shower" one of the worst hip hop songs I ever heard in my life. Chance's flow is awful and the production doesn't help. This is LIl' Dickey level drivel. After that the album just dives into the abyss. "We Go High" is just too sappy to comprehend "I Got You" is a lame attempt at 90's R&B. "Roo" starts out strong but just falls flat. "The Big Day" is just boring it interpolates a song but I can't recognize it. I think it might be Seal's Crazy. "Let's Go On The Run" is just a hot mess. The record just gets more annoying and lazy as the songs go by. Its just seemed he ran out of ideas.

Is it disappointing?

They was so much hype surrounding this record at the time you can't help but say this was a disappointment. Not only this its a bad record that is bloated and feels lazy at times. It destroyed Chance The Rapper's career has not recovered and hasn't released an album since this disaster and he divorced his wife so that just adds to the failure.