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Chance the Rapper has always loved baseball caps, which he viewed as a small form of rebellion growing up in Chicago. “I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away,” he told GQ in 2017. “…At the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.” Apparently, hats weren’t in the dress code, but that just made Chance more eager to wear them. It, therefore, stands to reason he’d incorporate caps as part of his daily wear.
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Before the advent of 3, Chance would often wear a Chicago White Sox hat, and he redesigned his home team hats circa 2016, per Bleacher Report. However, he wanted a cap that meant something to him, which is why he settled on a number that represented the important things in his life. “I thought [3] made the most sense because it was the third project,” he explained. In this case, 3 refers to Chance’s third album, “Coloring Book,” and “Coloring Book” was just too much of a mouthful to put on a hat. Plus, the pithy logo represents other things too. “…It stands for … the Holy Trinity, and the three-pronged family of myself, my daughter, and my girl,” Chance added.
