Chance the Rapper kicked off his tour by covering Kanye West's 'Waves'

🎶 Waaaaves don't diieeeeee 🎶

Chance the Rapper kicked off his first arena tour Monday night, and when you do things that big, you gotta bring out the hits.

While the Chicago native has bangers of his own, Chance has an impressive resumé working with some famous faces. He's worked on a few standout tracks—namely a few Kanye West's The Life of Pablo songs that he whipped out for his first show on the "Be Encouraged" tour in San Diego.

Chance, who is famously blamed for the delay of TLOP, performed his version of the song "Waves," a song that West claimed Chance kept tweaking before the release of TLOP. Immediately after, Chance jumped straight into West's "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 2," and had the whole crowd singing along with the Metro Boomin produced track.

He also reprised his contributions in West's "Ultralight Beam"—a verse he joined West on the Saturday Night stage for last February.

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