Chance The Rapper talks Black Star Line Festival in Jamaica
Chance The Rapper’s plans to host the next Black Star Line Festival in Jamaica are seemingly becoming more concrete as the American rapper met with US Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry, in Kingston during his birthday trip to the island.
An Instagram post on the ambassador's official Twitter page Wednesday revealed the meeting between the two, where, according to the post, Chance The Rapper’s plans to host the festival in Jamaica were discussed.
The 30-year-old, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, also participated in Jamaica's Carnival and hosted his official birthday party at Uptown Mondays in the country's capital city.
The Black Star Line Festival is slated to be held in January 2024. It is inspired by the Black Star Line steamship founded by Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Garvey, in 1919.
The company, which was owned and operated by black people, facilitated international travel and shipping between America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Chance The Rapper had previously disclosed his plans to host the festival in Jamaica in an interview on The Tonight Show in March.
“We’re actually thinking about hosting the next one in Kingston, Jamaica,” he explained. “We’re still working it out in our heads. And we love the city of Accra and Ghana and West Africa as a whole. We just want to continue to, like, create community in other spaces,” he said.
The inaugural staging of the festival was held in Ghana in January and the Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer described it as very successful, attracting up to 52,000 people.
It featured acts like Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle, T-Pain, Jeremih, Sarkodie, Tobe Nwigwe, Asakaa Boys, and M.anifest.
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