Chance The Rapper Calls Spike Lee's 'Chiraq' A 'Sexist, Racist Flop'

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Mar 9, 2016 5:26PM

Spike Lee's controversial whirlwind-tour through Chicago to film and promote Chiraq last year was met with a mixture of excitement and condemnation. Our film critic called the movie, meant to serve as a musical adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata set in Chicago's most violent areas, a "disastrous mix of satire and tragedy."

South Side native Chance the Rapper had even harsher words for the film when he Tweeted about it, a week after Lee was in Evanston talking about the movie: Chance, born Chancelor Bennett, called it "sexist and racist" and an "offensive, unsuccessful flop of a movie."

The Tweets are apparently in response to to Lee's recent appearance at Northwestern University, during which he reportedly called the rapper a "straight-up fraud."

Come on now This guy promoting this offensive unsuccessful flop of a movie ... about the Southside...in fucking Evanston...

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016

And then get mad when students at the screening challenge him on his sexist, and RACIST movie and he wanna point the finger at me

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016

Boy. You are a lame. But more importantly a liar.

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016

Now stop tweeking for I get to releasing audio of you begging me to be in that trash ass movie

— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) March 8, 2016

Chance's father, Ken Bennett, works in the mayor's office—a fact Lee has pointed out before while publicly feuding with the South Side native over the movie.