Chance The Rapper Drops “A Bar About A Bar,” Announces Next Single

Written by Morgan Ciocca on May 28, 2022

Chance the Rapper released his second multidisciplinary art piece, “A Bar About A Bar” this week — and announced a third work for next month.

Chance the Rapper dropped the new music video for “A Bar About A Bar” Thursday night, his second multimedia piece released this year. “A Bar About A Bar” is a short piece, released in collaboration with Chicago-based painter Nikko Washington, who recently collaborated with the Chicago Cubs on a clothing drop. Like Chance’s first interdisciplinary piece, “Child Of God,” “A Bar About A Bar” is composed of a song, music video and painting.

The video again finds Chance and the featured painter in his House of Kicks studio — this time, with Nikko Washington seated at an easel where Naïla Opiangah’s large-scale painting once was. Chance, writing at a desk nearby, is interrupted by fellow Chicago artist and frequent collaborator Vic Mensa during a writing exercise they’re working on.

“That’s 10 minutes,” Mensa says. “What you got?”

Chance delves into his “bar about a bar” as the scene he describes plays out, interspersed with shots of Washington’s finished painting. About a minute in, the video cuts to find Chance in Italy, announcing his next release, tentatively titled “The Highs and The Lows,” featuring Joey Bada$$ and artwork by Yannis Davey Guibinga, which is scheduled for release this June.

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Nikko Washington’s painting is currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through the weekend. Washington graduated from the School of the Art Institute in 2016.