Chance the Rapper targets Jamaica as next destination for Black Star Line Festival

Stevian Francis

3 years ago

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Chance the Rapper says he wants to bring the Black Star Line Festival to Jamaica following its successful staging in Ghana last weekend.

The rapper who is one of the organizers of the event revealed his intentions during a recent interview on the popular Late night talk show Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

“We’re actually thinking about hosting the next one in Kingston, Jamaica,” Chance shared.

“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 a community in other spaces.”

The show, which he says was the biggest-ever concert in Ghana’s history, pulled over 52,000 patrons to the free event which featured the likes of T-pain, Jeremih, and Erykah Badu among several other notable stars.

“It was very successful,” he says of the event, held earlier this year with a lineup featuring Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle, T-Pain, Jeremih, Sarkodie, Tobe Nwigwe, Asakaa Boys, and M.anifest.

Chance then shared that they were aiming at a January date for staging which he wants to be in the home of Reggae Jamaica.

“I’m actually looking to do it again in January, Myself and Vic Mensa,” he said before dropping the Caribbean island as the targeted destination next year.

“We wanna just continue to just create a community in other spaces and not make it such a stagnant thing,” he said adding “so we’re looking for any country who wanna host us and wanna host black folks from around the diaspora….we wanna bring that experience”.

The Black Star Line was a shipping transport company founded by Jamaica’s first national hero and International civil rights activist Marcus Garvey in 1919.

The purpose of the line was “to transport people and make largely symbolic port visits to cities in Latin America in celebration of black self-determination, business ownership, and economic potential” as per Blackpast.org