Chance The Rapper Brings ‘Star Line’ Standout ‘The Negro Problem’ To ‘Colbert’

Chance the Rapper appeared on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform “The Negro Problem.” The track is off the Chicago native’s 2025 album Star Line.

The record marks Chance’s first LP in six years, following 2019’s The Big Day. The album’s fourth track, “The Negro Problem,” arrived along with Star Line on August 15, 2025.

In an October 2025 interview with Ebony, Chance detailed the track:

A lot of the interviews I would watch from the Dick Cavett shows and interviews with Malcolm X would talk about this thing called “The Negro Problem.” At that time, a buzzword or a question they would ask Black people who were intellectuals, “Well, how do we solve the negro problem?” I found out about this book of essays that Booker T. Washington put together with a bunch of other writers called “The Negro Problem,” and it’s a variety of what they thought the problem was, and all their solutions differ.

I wanted to do this piece to explain that intersectionality. Maybe you’re not the negro, but you’re adjacent at some crosshair. To understand that you got to hear all these things that I’m worried about, that if you listen to it, you can be like, “Oh, I’m worried about this shit too!” There is a gun problem in America, and it’s not just Black folks that’s feeling it; white people are scared too.

Watch Chance The Rapper perform “The Negro Problem” on Colbert:

Chance also sat down for a chat with Stephen. Check it out: