After wrapping up his nearly six-year marriage, Chance the Rapper admits he doesn’t have the “answers” when it comes to building healthy relationships.
The Star Line artist stopped by Angela Yee’s Lip Service radio show on Friday (Aug. 15), where the Grammy winner opened up about toxic marriages he witnessed growing up and how they influenced his outlook.
Chance, 32, was married to Kirsten Corley from 2019 to 2025, and the former couple share two daughters, Kensli and Marli Bennett.
During the interview, around the 31-minute mark, he referenced his song “No More Old Men,” pointing to lyrics about couples who “split up and never get divorced” but continue living in “two different parts of the house.”
That’s when Yee brought up Chance’s own “hard decision” to divorce, sharing how her parents also split after she graduated college but still chose to live under the same roof.
“I don’t know the answers at all. I don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong,” Chance admitted. “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.”
“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?” Chance reflected. “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.”
He clarified that while he doesn’t view divorced couples living together as the “right way,” he also isn’t condemning it, since it’s what he grew up seeing.
“But then also, like, I agree totally that people should go in the pursuit of happiness and in the pursuit of love and making decisions that are going to be best for their hearts,” he added.
Chance went on to explain that the lyrics from his Star Side Intro weren’t directly about his divorce, but rather tied to “other things” from his life that he doesn’t openly discuss.
“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 breakup with Corley, the two have managed to keep a strong coparenting bond. Chance even gave her a special shout-out during his 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 shared 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.”
