Likelihood the Rapper is opening up about co-parenting along with his ex-wife as he prepares to launch a brand new album and go on a nationwide tour.
The rapper from Chicago stopped by the “CBS Morning” studio on Monday to debate the discharge of his second studio album, “Star Line.” Likelihood, whose actual identify is Chancelor Bennett, described the brand new EP as his “most expansive work.”
“It covers a number of totally different areas in my life,” he stated.
Likelihood etched his means into the music world after recording a mixtape throughout a highschool suspension. He self-released “10 Days” in 2012 and commenced his profession as an unbiased artist, a path that he continues to comply with.
He adopted up his debut LP with “Acid Rap” a yr later, and “Coloring Guide” in 2016. In 2023, Likelihood celebrated the tenth anniversary of his second mixtape by performing your entire tape on the Kia Discussion board.
“I wrote [Acid Rap] after I was opening up for artists enjoying 300-cap rooms. I’m rapping about doing open mics however closing my eyes and seeing arenas. Going again and enjoying arenas for that venture simply makes me proud,” Likelihood stated in a 2023 interview.
Now, the rapper behind tracks like “Cocoa Butter Kisses” and “No Drawback” stated his new album displays the change his private life has gone via within the final six years, together with his divorce from Kirsten Corley, with whom he shares two youngsters.
“It’s all the time only a good factor to, as an artist … launch and to love, you understand, simply share with the world,” he added.
The couple married again in 2019 and introduced their separation final yr on their Instagram. Corley filed for divorce in December 2024. They proceed to lift their two younger daughters collectively.
“, household is like one of many largest issues for me, for [Corley], for my youngsters, for my mother and pa, so I feel crucial factor for anyone that’s ever navigating [parenting after a divorce] is ensuring that you just preserve an setting for the children the place they perceive that [family is] the precedence,” Bennett stated.
His final album, “The Huge Day,” was launched in 2019. Likelihood the Rapper is releasing his follow-up on Friday and can go on tour beginning in September, with a cease in L.A. on Oct. 20.
