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G ood E nough (Released December 11, 2013)

“Lavmar” along with G ood E nough on December 11, 2013. The recording included collaborations of five songs, which are: In the Pen Dance , featuring Nico Segal Nostalgia Dear Chicago Summer Kick Back , featuring Joey Davis and Zekur September 7th , featuring Akenya and Nico Segal The song September 7th has neo-soul influences reminiscent of Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Ledisi, as well as a mix of Sarah Vaughan scat and cool jazz trumpet. The B ack to S chool P ack EP has been downloaded, so far, more than 87,000 times from DatPiff.com, and listened to nearly 95,000 times. F ree EP (Released August 05, 2015) The production F ree was released in collaboration with solo hip-hop artist Lil B on August 05, 2015. This freestyle-based mixtape was made up of free-flowing raps and tunes. So far, it has been downloaded nearly 68,000 times on DatPiff.com and listened to 169,000 times.

This mixtape was discovered on a forgotten Facebook page and released to the internet via Reddit. According to a user named “Lavmar,”who spoke in an interview with MTV, I found Chance the Rapper’s old Facebook [account] yesterday and got a bunch of old pics/vids/music. Here’s 2 of his earlier mixtapes. [The release also included the mixtape B ack T o S chool P ack .] Enjoy, I’m a huge Chance fan and it’s cool as hell hearing his real old s--t like this so I thought y’all would like to hear it too. There’s actually some good s--t on those mixtapes. There were no collaborations noted in this release, but G ood E nough , with nine songs— including one of the same title—further defined Chance the Rapper’s style and highlighted the ease with which a mix of musical influences were shaping his successful career. The production has been downloaded nearly 100,000 times via DatPiff.com, with over 100,000 audio plays through the website. B ack to S chool P ack EP (Released December 11, 2013) As mentioned, this extended-play mixtape was also released through Reddit by user

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