The news station shared a video of the rapper testing out his reporting skills via Twitter Friday.
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"Maybe we should start calling him Chance the Meteorologist...? Or not," the news station joked.
Maybe we should start calling him Chance the Meteorologist... ?
— WGN Morning News (@WGNMorningNews) December 8, 2017
Or not. Here's your morning forecast from @chancetherapper ! #ChicagosVeryOwn #WGNToyDrive pic.twitter.com/yNu6Xw9CA7
In the clip, we see Chance in front of a green screen improvising what to say about the images popping up on the screen as his song Angels plays softly in the background.
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"Uh St. Louis is also a part of Illinois apparently," he says, adding his own humorous charm to the report. "Also tonight, light snow, low 23 (degrees). Every snowflake is different, they actually have like different DNA just like people."
He also grabs an "invisibility cloak" that disappears as he brings it into the shot and wraps it around himself.
"If I have to check out books at the Hogwarts library," he says, referencing the Harry Potter series.
At the end of the report, the rapper joked that the reporting "wasn't hard at all."
"I'm actually looking for a job," he joked.
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