NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Kirsten Corley and Chance the Rapper attend The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue )
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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:
