Chance the Rapper’s wife speaks out following cheating rumors

Chance the Rapper is in hot water after a video went viral on social media showing him dancing intimately with a woman at Jamaica’s Carnival. The clip prompted social media users to accuse him of cheating on his wife, Kristen Corley-Bennett.

His wife has finally broken her silence on the matter. On Thursday, Bennett took to Instagram to share a quote from American poet Maya Angelou.

An Instagram quote

The quote is an excerpt from Angelou’s essay ‘Home’, discussing how most people never mature. She captioned the post “I hope one day, we all choose to grow up.”

“What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth,” the post reads.

“It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed.”

While it’s unclear if Corley-Bennett is simply sharing her appreciation for the author or subtly commenting on her husband’s actions, since then, the internet has been divided on whether the rapper’s actions were disrespectful or normal within Caribbean culture.

However, according to a representative for the rapper, their relationship is just fine. “Everyone has their moments, but they’re all good,” the rep told TMZ.

Relationship history

Chance met his future wife back in 2003 when he was only nine years old. They began dating in 2013 and welcomed their first daughter in 2015.

They briefly broke up in 2016 but were back together by March 2017. Chance later proposed in 2018 on July 4.

The couple finally tied the knot in March 2019, just eight months after getting engaged. They welcomed their second daughter in August 2019.