With so many bad reality TV out there, we kind of wish this were a show we could watch: Chance The Rapper moves in with James Blake. The 20 year-old hip hop artist revealed his temporary career plans to crash at Blake's pad, in the digital issue of NME Magazine. He has never before lived outside of his Chicago home, so he says: "It will probably be like being on vacation for the first couple of months. Then I'll start figuring out what kind of music I'll be making."
Though Blake is from London (he won the Album of the Year Mercury Prize, which goes to a British or Irish artist), the two will be at Blake's place in Los Angeles. They met at SXSW in Austin, Texas and kept in touch in working together from there, according to NME.
Chance The Rapper says, "We're probably going to make a bunch of shit every day. I don't know what we're going to do with it. We might give some shit to other artists." He adds, "We're getting a compound so we figure we might invite people round to the crib and make some music in the house, then kick them out and bring in some new people."
They collaborated on a video and remix of Blake's "Life Round Here." Chance is also known for sampling other British artists such as Coldplay and Adele. In Decemeber, Justin Bieber tweeted to Chance "we are next" in the studio together. Chance is quite sought after and Blake is hot now too, so fans are eager to see what else the duo will do.
James Blake has some international shows and returns to play the U.S. in March. Chance will play Coachella in California this April, fittingly. He's also slated for Firefly Music Festival in Delaware this summer. The move-in date hasn't been announced, but a vague later-in-2014 is thrown out there.
We'd love to be a fly on Blake's wall, but we'll have to settle with getting our hands on the material is produced as a result of their co-habitation. Music Times will be there to share as the creative collaboration unfolds.
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