--- title: Alec Baldwin Raps With Chance the Rapper description: Chance the Rapper provides beats canonical: https://time.com/3728572/alec-baldwin-rap-chance-the-rapper/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-02T19:17:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:17.474Z og:title: Watch Alec Baldwin Valiantly Attempt to Rap for Charity og:description: Chance the Rapper provides beats og:url: https://time.com/3728572/alec-baldwin-rap-chance-the-rapper/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Alec Baldwin Valiantly Attempt to Rap for Charity twitter:description: Chance the Rapper provides beats twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Alec Baldwin Valiantly Attempt to Rap for Charity by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 2, 2015 7:17 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 2, 2015 7:17 PM UTC Alec Baldwin is many things: An actor, philanthropist, [dating advice guru,](http://time.com/3594510/alec-baldwin-love-ride-advice-web-series/) podcaster and former [Words with Friends enthusiast](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/07/baldwins-booted-brethren-10-celebrities-who-have-been-kicked-off-planes/). Now, he can add rapper to that list. [Chance the Rapper](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/13/14-bands-and-artists-to-watch-in-2014/) posted a video to [Instagram](https://instagram.com/chancetherapper/) that features him beatboxing while Baldwin freestyles beside him. It goes about as well as you think, with Baldwin giving it his all while reading his rhymes from a piece of paper. The video came about because Baldwin, Chance, Alfred Woodard and Ali from A Tribe Called Quest were in Chicago for a fundraiser for [Young Chicago Authors](http://www.youngchicagoauthors.org/), an organization Chance credits as helping him become a leader. While it’s clear Baldwin probably shouldn’t give up his day job, he deserves props for giving it a go for a good cause, namely, promoting YCA’s [Louder Than A Bomb ](http://youngchicagoauthors.org/blog/ltab/)poetry festival. Plus it seems like he had a good time: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3728572/alec-baldwin-rap-chance-the-rapper/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3728572/alec-baldwin-rap-chance-the-rapper/"},"headline":"Watch Alec Baldwin Valiantly Attempt to Rap for Charity","datePublished":"2015-03-02T19:17:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:17.474Z","description":"Chance the Rapper provides beats","url":"https://time.com/3728572/alec-baldwin-rap-chance-the-rapper/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","viral","Alec Baldwin","Viral Videos","chance the rapper"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/3728572/alec-baldwin-rap-chance-the-rapper/","name":"Watch Alec Baldwin Valiantly Attempt to Rap for Charity"}}]}] ```