{"id":3671,"date":"2016-05-14T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/14\/chance-the-rappers-coloring-book-is-an-early-contender-for-rap-album-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T06:39:12","slug":"chance-the-rappers-coloring-book-is-an-early-contender-for-rap-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/14\/chance-the-rappers-coloring-book-is-an-early-contender-for-rap-album-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper&#039;s &#039;Coloring Book&#039; is an early contender for rap album of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chance\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzEzLzFlL2NoYW5jZS5lMDBmYi5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk1NzV4MzIzIwplCWpwZw\/2bb90120\/acc\/chance.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Chance+the+Rapper%27s+%27Coloring+Book%27+is+an+early+contender+for+rap+album+of+the+year&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F13%2Fchance-the-rapper-coloring-book-review%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F13%2Fchance-the-rapper-coloring-book-review%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">n an interview in January, Future, the Atlanta rapper behind often tragic, always druggy rap hits like &#8220;Codeine Crazy&#8221; and &#8220;March Madness,&#8221; said he doesn&#8217;t do drugs. He raps about it because that&#8217;s what people like to hear, he said at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many Future fans <i>freaked out<\/i>, felt downright betrayed and manipulated. Their reactions brought up an interesting question: What happens when Future puts down the lean? What happens when he isn&#8217;t sad? <\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Future is a drug addict or not, it indicated he has an awareness of something: There&#8217;s a part of us that <i>likes<\/i> it when artists are sad, that views darker art as more serious, more real. He&#8217;s made a career off of this, and he knows it <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/13\/chance-the-rapper-coloring-book-review\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/chance-the-rapper\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Chance The Rapper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/KO8LF-kNO98\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in January, Future, the Atlanta rapper behind often tragic, always druggy rap hits like &#8220;Codeine Crazy&#8221; and &#8220;March Madness,&#8221; said he doesn&#8217;t do drugs. He raps about it because that&#8217;s what people like to hear, he said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/14\/chance-the-rappers-coloring-book-is-an-early-contender-for-rap-album-of-the-year\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}