Earlier this month, Chance The Rapper was a social media hot topic after multiple videos of him at Jamaica’s 2023 carnival surfaced. Fans and critics immediately questioned his wife’s whereabouts, but Kirsten Corley-Bennett didn’t publicly react.
Then, on Wednesday (April 26), the mother of two posted a cryptic Maya Angelou text. The copy claims, “Most people don’t grow up,” before explaining that some just “get older.”
This is Kirsten’s first feed post following the circulation of the videos, which show Chance grinding on two different women.
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To be more specific, one short clip shows the artist leaning back as two other people support him. Meanwhile, a woman dressed in a carnival costume throws her peach back into his pelvic area. At one point, he slaps the woman’s bare cheeks twice. The woman’s identity has not been revealed.
Hey man, @chancetherapper was LIVEEE 😭🤣 x @xoduscarnival
📺/ @melaxgoddess#JamaicaCarnival #CarnivalInJamaica2023 🇯🇲 #JamaicaCarnival2023
ɪɴsᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ https://t.co/8lEfQwJmXo pic.twitter.com/AqJfW3mNJa— ʟᴜᴄʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠᴀɢᴀʙᴏɴᴅ 🇯🇲 (@LucyAndVagabond) April 17, 2023
And that wasn’t the only dance Chance received at the festival. Another clip shows a woman in a white bodysuit throwing it back as he lightly gripped her waist.
Chance the Rapper got a hall pass for the weekend and going crazy pic.twitter.com/jJfrBLiuYe
— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) April 18, 2023
Chance and Kirsten have known each other since they were nine and welcomed a daughter Kensli in 2015 before getting married in March 2019. They welcomed their second daughter, Marli, later that year.
No Reaction From Chance, But Fans Think Kirsten Is Firing Subliminals With Her Post
Primarily seen as an unproblematic (and private) couple, the footage of Chance getting a likkle wine caused trending conversations. Nonetheless, the rapper seemingly avoided reacting online.
Instead, Chance has directed most of his internet energy towards promoting his Acid Rap Tenth Anniversary Show, which will go down in Chicago on August 19.
Acidrap done broke da ticket master 🤦🏽♂️
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) April 26, 2023
Why was Chance in Jamaica? It turns out the artist visited the Caribbean country to celebrate his birthday weekend–and even had some time to meet a US ambassador while there. Again, it’s unclear if Kirsten was on the island with her husband at the time of his carnival pleasures.
Ambassador Perry met with @ChanceTheRapper as part of his birthday trip to Jamaica. The two discussed the rapper’s upcoming plans to host the Black Star Line Festival in Jamaica. pic.twitter.com/MzHpVgRizb
— US Embassy Jamaica (@USEmbassyJA) April 19, 2023
Still, fans seem to think the text in her only feed post in April–minus a series of reels–is a subliminal aimed at her husband.
The highlighted part of Wednesday’s post reads:
“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. 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. 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.”
In her caption, the wife wrote, “I hope one day, we all choose to grow up.”
Looking at Kirsten and Chance’s Insta-feed, none of their 2023 content so far appears to feature their significant other–though they both still follow each other.
Keep scrolling to see some of the online chatter:
-chance the rapper wife is absolutely correct , if y’all had seen HER at carnival throwing that ass on a random yall would be giving us lectures on how wives are supposed to act 😂
— CuRii GOAT ✨🌻 (@thePoWer_RangeR) April 27, 2023
LMFAOOO chance the rapper's wife shading him is hilarious because he was really at carnival having a ball 😭 but sister girl gotta understand that is the culture
— 7/7 💕 (@diamondjamei) April 27, 2023
They carnival video discussion is funny in hindsight because I just assumed if you famous and dancing like that in public view y’all have some type of understanding. But apparently nobody understood but Chance. 😭
— ……. (@PrinceHAK33M) April 27, 2023
re: chance the rapper
you can’t love your wife and also catch ass at carnival?
the straights make marriage sound unbearably stale. pic.twitter.com/7B5LwSTWPT
— thuggish ruggish bo 🖤 (@bodabaddie) April 18, 2023
Am I reading correct is chance the rapper wife mad about carnival? Or it’s because too much internet ppl giving them input swayed her 🧐
— Nique Wallace (@sh_nique) April 27, 2023
Amaricans refusing to understand cultures outside of America will never not be funny to me because how tf are they saying Chance The Rapper is cheating on his wife at a Carnival pic.twitter.com/sENX9vXbrK
— Sanade (@Sw33tSanade) April 17, 2023
Chance The Rapper at Carnival: pic.twitter.com/BM9YeGwjr9
— Riley Writts (@RileyWritts) April 17, 2023
The problem with Chance at carnival is he liked the video light too much
— Sir J Wavy (@mrjwavy) April 27, 2023
Based on how y'all are reacting to Chance dancing at Carnival I can tell there are a lot of boring ass relationships out there. This my friends is why most of y'all get cheated on, ya damn partner can't even have fun and dance for fucks sake pic.twitter.com/CuDg2viEs0
— IChooseViolence (@shesmaryann) April 18, 2023
