Chance The Rapper Is Not A Fan Of Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq'

Let me be the one from Chicago to personally tell you we not supporting this film out here

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

Critics are largely praising Spike Lee’s new movie Chi-Raq. The film — which tries to make a statement on Chicago’s gun violence problem through the lens of the Ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata — is being lauded as a return-to-form for the controversial director, but at least one prominent Chicagoan is not happy with the way his city was portrayed. Chance the Rapper took to Twitter to say that Chicago natives are “not supporting this film out here.”

That shit get ZERO love out here. Shit is goofy and it's a bunch of ppl from NOT around here telling u to support that shit 🙅🏾🙅🏾🙅🏾

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

The people that made that shit didn't do so to "Save Lives". It's exploitive and problematic

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

Also the idea that women abstaining from sex would stop murders is offensive and a slap in the face to any mother that lost a child here

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

You don't do any work with the children of Chicago, You don't live here, you've never watched someone die here. Don't tell me to be calm

— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

And this is coming from the Chicagoan of the Year, according to Chicago Magazine. But he is far from the only Chicago artist to speak out against Chi-Raq. Drill rapper King Louie released a video for a song with the straightforward title of “F*ck Spike Lee” earlier today.

The ire directed at Lee isn’t just contained to famous Chicago musicians. The director got absolutely roasted during a recent Twitter Q&A by people who thought his film was exploitative and poorly researched.

https://twitter.com/FreedomReeves/status/672135446487572485