--- title: Chance the Rapper Calls Ellen DeGeneres' Birthday a Holiday description: Chance the Rapper took to 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' to declare that Ellen DeGeneres' birthday should be a holiday for the rest of us. canonical: https://time.com/5129308/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres-birthday/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-01T20:58:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:17.784Z og:title: Chance the Rapper Calls Ellen DeGeneres' Birthday a Holiday og:description: The rapper and Jimmy Kimmel and Jamie Foxx dropped by og:url: https://time.com/5129308/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51a8f4b323b13e8a/6988fa47bc6cfc21c43e4da0/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival - Night 2 - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chance the Rapper Calls Ellen DeGeneres' Birthday a Holiday twitter:description: The rapper and Jimmy Kimmel and Jamie Foxx dropped by twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51a8f4b323b13e8a/6988fa47bc6cfc21c43e4da0/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chance the Rapper Declares that Ellen's Birthday Is a Holiday for the Rest of Us > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for iHeartMedia) Rich Fury—Getty Images for iHeartMedia  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 1, 2018 8:58 PM UTC [Ellen DeGeneres](http://time.com/4728994/ellen-degeneres-1997-coming-out-cover/) is celebrating 60 rotations around the sun, which is why [Chance the Rapper](http://time.com/4631321/chance-the-rapper-on-kanye-west/) dropped by for a surprise visit to her eponymous talk show on Thursday. The Chicago rapper, who showed up with a gift of a large bouquet of flowers for DeGeneres, was excited to celebrate DeGeneres’ birthday, declaring that it was an especially “good day.” DeGeneres cheekily pointed out to Chance that he wasn’t the only famous Chicago resident to pay her a visit, as [Michelle Obama had made an appearance earlier](http://time.com/5129005/michelle-obama-talks-barack-obama-on-ellen/), something that Chance emphasized by pointing out to her that they both “wanted to show love for somebody that’s so special.” He echoed that sentiment a few moments later when “I’m just happy to be here, happy to be able to celebrate this time with you, ” he said. “It’s like a holiday, right?” DeGeneres was more than happy to agree with him, conceding happily: “Yeah, it is.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5129308/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5129308/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres-birthday/"},"headline":"Chance the Rapper Declares that Ellen's Birthday Is a Holiday for the Rest of Us","datePublished":"2018-02-01T20:58:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:17.784Z","description":"Where is the lie?","url":"https://time.com/5129308/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres-birthday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Ellen Degeneres","chance the rapper","The Ellen Degeneres Show"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51a8f4b323b13e8a/6988fa47bc6cfc21c43e4da0/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51a8f4b323b13e8a/6988fa47bc6cfc21c43e4da0/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival - Night 2 - Show","caption":"2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival - Night 2 - Show","creditText":"Rich Fury—Getty Images for iHeartMedia","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5129308/chance-the-rapper-ellen-degeneres-birthday/","name":"Chance the Rapper Declares that Ellen's Birthday Is a Holiday for the Rest of Us"}}]}] ```