Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018. (
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CHICAGO (AP) - Chance the Rapper is weighing in on the Chicago mayor's race.
The Grammy Award-winning artist from Chicago endorsed Amara Enyia in the 2019 race to replace Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, said during a Tuesday news conference at City Hall that he and Enyia "share a vision for what Chicago could be." He says they both want to help "people on the bottom."
He also says he "probably won't ever be running for mayor" himself, despite becoming more politically active in recent years.
Enyia is director of the Chamber of Commerce in a west side Chicago neighborhood. She ran briefly for mayor in 2015 but dropped out before the election.
More than a dozen people have said they're running in the February election.
Chancelor Bennett, aka Chance the Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, in Chicago.
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Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Amara Enyia, who is running for mayor of Chicago speaks during a news conference where Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper endorsed her at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Amara Enyia, who is running for mayor of Chicago speaks during a news conference where Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper endorsed her at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chancelor Bennett, known professionally as Chance The Rapper, endorses Amara Enyia for mayor of Chicago during a news conference at City Hall, Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, 2018.
(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)