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Chance The Rapper, Kanye West Serve Blessings At Inaugural Meadows Festival
Lil' Chano from the 79th, also known as Chance The Rapper, was full of blessings at the Meadows Festival in Queens, NY. | Photo by Vickey Ford (SneakShot) for Okayplayer.
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Chance The Rapper Officially Cancels 'The Big Tour'

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY. Photo Credit: Vickey Ford of SneakShot for Okayplayer

The Chicago rapper pulls The Big Plug on The Big Tour.

Following a series of postponements and delays, Chance The Rapper has officially canceled The Big Tour.

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In an Instagram post this afternoon, Chance announced the cancelation, apologizing to fans and promising to "come back much stronger and better in 2020." The Big Tour was initially announced in the weeks following the release of the Chicago rapper's "debut" album The Big Day with an intended mid-September launch.

By the time September crept in, Chance and his wife welcomed their second child, sparking the tour's first delay to the end of the month. Eventually, September had come and gone and Chance had only performed the tour's hometown set, rescheduling the rest of the shows for early 2020. In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Chance explained his decision to take a brief paternity leave, citing the difficulty of being on the road with a newborn at home.

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You can read Chance The Rapper's full statement on the tour's cancelation below.