Whenever Chance the Rapper’s mini-mes pop up on social media, they instantly melt hearts, but his love story with wife Kirsten Corley is equally adorable. Although the pair officially began dating in 2013, they actually met way back in 2003 when the artist was only 9 years old. As he recounted on Twitter in 2019, mere days before his wedding, Corley’s mother was actually his mother’s boss at a real estate firm. One day, they hosted an office party for staff and their family and that’s where Corley wowed her future husband as she performed a dance to Destiny’s Child “Independent Women Part 1.” She was Kelly Rowland.
As Chance recalled, he was instantly smitten. “Now I’m locking eyes with the prettiest girl I ever seen in my almost-a-decade of life on earth,” he wrote. While his dad encouraged him to join in and show off his own dance moves, Chance ultimately refused. “Not just because it wasn’t my party, not because it was their moment to dance, not even cause I was nervous about dancing in front of folks,” he explained. “It’s cause I knew I was gonna marry that girl. And I ain’t wanna jump the gun.” Well, his premonition turned out to be correct — although it would take some time to come true. “I never saw her again until SXSW 2012 in Austin, Texas where we met and eventually when back in Chicago we connected the dots,” he clarified on Twitter. After that, everything fell into place.
