Favorite Song (Chance the Rapper song)
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| "Favorite Song" | |
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| Song by Chance the Rapper featuring Childish Gambino | |
| from the album Acid Rap | |
| Released | April 30, 2013 |
| Length | 3:05 |
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"Favorite Song" is a song by American rapper Chance the Rapper from his second mixtape Acid Rap (2013). It features American rapper Childish Gambino and was produced by Chance himself and fellow Social Experiment member Nate Fox. The song samples Betty Wright's "Clean Up Woman", so the song's writers, Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid, are credited as writers alongside Chance and Fox.
Although the song was not released as a single, the song hit number 20 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart and peaked at number 14 on the Rap Digital Song Sales chart, becoming the only non-single song from the album to chart and Gambino's first non-single song as a feature to chart.
The song was not the only collaboration from the two artists, as they previously collaborated on the track "They Don't Like Me" from Gambino's sixth mixtape Royalty, and they would later collaborate again on "The Worst Guys" from Gambino's second studio album Because the Internet, another non-single song to chart and the duo's most recent collaboration.
The song contains a sample of "Clean Up Woman" by Betty Wright,[1][2] described as "tropical guitar samples".[3] Due to the sample, the song's writers, Willie Clarke and Clarence Reid (also known as Blowfly) are credited as writers. Fred Thomas of AllMusic described the instrumental as "happily melodic".[2]
The second verse of the song uses a staccato rhythm and internal rhyme scheme that is also used in the song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 opera The Pirates of Penzance and the poem Song of Eärendil from The Lord of the Rings series. This was noted by Stephen Colbert in a video of Rolling Stone's "Song Breakdown" series.[4]