After the end of his nearly six-year marriage, Chance the Rapper said he doesn’t have the “answers” about healthy relationships.
The Star Line artist was a guest on the Friday (Aug. 15) episode of Angela Yee‘s radio show Lip Service, where the Grammy winner spoke about toxic marriages that he witnessed while growing up.
Chance, 32, was married to Kirsten Corley from 2019 to 2025, and the ex-spouses share two daughters, Kensli and Marli Bennett.
Around the 31-minute mark below, Chance referenced lyrics from his track “No More Old Men,” where he mentions people who “split up and never get divorced” and live in “two different parts of the house.”
This led Yee to bring up Chance’s “hard decision” to have a divorce, and she explained that her parents divorced after she graduated college but still live together.
“I don’t know the answers at all. I don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong,” Chance said. “I do know that, like, growing up I used to see—and I didn’t understand it when I was a kid. I’m like, ‘Damn, why my uncle live like sleep in the basement? Why is my auntie’s room on the top floor?’
“It just felt like that’s just how they live,” he continued. “And then you understand, like, they, at some point, made a decision that that’s how they wanted to live, but they also decided that they didn’t want to, you know, go through court or have their kids living in separate houses or feel like they were alone in any way.”
Chance also mentioned his “No More Old Men” lyrics, where he raps: “Sleep in separate rooms for years when they hearts broke/So at least somebody there if they start stroke.”
“It’s like you split up and you spent all this time with somebody and now you alone and who’s going to be there … when you get sick or if anything happens to you?” he continued. “And I think that’s the decision that a lot of our parents and aunts and uncles and everybody made to keep some sort of family house or some sort of family dynamic.”
Chance expressed that he wasn’t considering divorced roommates to be “the right way,” but wasn’t “vilifying it” because it’s what he “grew up knowing.”
“But then also, like, I agree totally that people should go and in the pursuit of happiness and in the pursuit of love and making decisions that are going to be best for their hearts,” he said.
Chance also explained that lyrics from his “Star Side Intro” weren’t necessarily about his divorce but about “other things” from his life that he doesn’t “talk about.”
“I have, like, all these things to worry about. So, I’ve tried not to, I guess, cloud the information that I’m putting out,” he said.
Despite his split from Corley, the exes have maintained a healthy coparenting relationship, and Chance shouted her out during an appearance on CBS Mornings last week.
“You know, family is one of the biggest things for me, for her, for my kids, for my mom and dad,” Chance said on the show. “So I think the most important thing for anybody that’s having to navigate that is making sure you keep an environment for the kids where they understand that’s the priority.”
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