Chance the Rapper has announced a release date for his long-awaited second album Star Line.
According to the rapper’s website, Star Line will be released on August 15 and fans can pre-order the album in various formats now.
Chance has not yet unveiled a tracklist for the project but did recently drop a song with Lil Wayne and Smino although it is not yet known if it will make the album.
It will be his first album since 2019’s The Big Day which was not well received by fans.
The Chicago rapper has been teasing a project entitled Star Line for a while but announced that he was putting it back because he didn’t like how fans were talking about his work.
In a video posted on Instagram last year, the Chance laid out his issues with his followers referring to his upcoming project as “the album” and not its official title when interacting with him on social media.
“Alright, so this was the main point I was trying to make: stop calling it ‘the album,’” he said while riding on his tour bus. “And I don’t mean that in an ungrateful way. I’m grateful that people are putting in my comments, ‘Drop the album.’
“I’m not finna drop the album until y’all start calling it Star Line. I’m not gonna drop the project, I’m not gonna do these installations — I got so much shit ready. But I hope that y’all understand that.”
Chance continued: “‘Drop the album’ — that’s for all the other artists, for everybody else whose work I also appreciate. But what I’m doing is something different. It’s something very specific. It’s called Star Line.
“So if y’all gonna press me for the project, don’t put ‘drop the album’ in my comments ’cause it makes me feel like y’all don’t know what’s going on. I’ve been saying one specific phrase for like two, three years now. I’ve been saying Star Line.”
Chanco then said that if fans start calling it Star Line, then he may release the album sooner: “If y’all say, ‘Drop Star Line‘ enough, it’s gonna make me drop Star Line. When y’all say ‘the album,’ it confuses me.”
