Chance made it clear that he's one of Kanye's biggest fans when he graced the cover of GQ magazine's February 2017 issue. In the accompanying interview, Chance praised Kanye, calling him "the smartest man in the world."
"I remember my dad would introduce us to folks and they would ask, 'What're you going to be when you grow up?' . . . . And I remember they asked me, and I said a rapper. And my dad laughed it off, like, 'No, he doesn't.' You know?" he explained. "And I remember that sh*t used to bother the f*ck out of me, because I thought Kanye West was the smartest man in the world. The best poet in the world. The freshest-dressed in the world. That's what a rapper was to me, and I wanted everybody to feel that way about the word 'rapper.'"