Chance the Rapper returns with “vulnerable” new song, 'Child of God'

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Chance the Rapper may have gone off the rap radar for a bit, but he made a powerful return on Thursday with the drop of his new single, “Child of God.”

It’s the first solo project since his 2021 track, “The Heart and the Tongue,” but the Chicago rapper brought to it the same level of vulnerability and openness that he has on many tracks of the past.

Song lyrics include, “Truth be told, I got the ball on a string // Carried the weight of the world, but it came with some handles // I drag it