Chance the Rapper apologizes to Dr. Dre for mocking his record label

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Chance the Rapper, the first independent, streaming-only artist to win a Grammy, has apologized to Dr. Dre for mocking Dre's Aftermath label and other music institutions on his 2017 Be Encouraged tour. 

On the tour, Chance played his anti-label single "No Problem" while the screen behind him projected parody names of various music labels. Def Jam became "Don't Join," and Dre's Aftermath read "Can't Do Math," Pitchfork reports. 

Chance took to Twitter on Thursday to apologize specifically to Dr. Dre, a legendary figure in hip-hop, and Aftermath for "publicly disrespecting their hard work and contributions to music."

"Dre is a premier example of creating space for wealth and ownership in an industry designed for creatives to be the foot soldiers," Chance wrote of the Aftermath CEO and former member of N.W.A.

"I set out to empower and I completely missed the ball and I know that now," Chance added. "Once again Sorry to Dre, all the artists/producers at Aftermath and all the other folk trying to make a difference in music that I belittled."

Read Chance's tweets below:

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When I went on the Be Encouraged tour I made LED content to satirize and degrade major labels.Tweet Embed:
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/877917668002680834
But also singled out artist-owned ventures that have only worked to progress the cultureTweet Embed:
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His work with Beats, Compton Schools and artist like Kendrick, Game, Eminem, .Paak, 50 NWA and others is unmatched and how i inspire to beTweet Embed:
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/877918747154984961
once again Sorry to Dre, all the artists/producers at Aftermath and all the other folk trying to make a difference in music that I belittled

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