. ♪ hands tied >> reporter: chance says a return to faith and the work of gospel legend kirk franklin ♪ do you want a revolution >> how does faith influence your sound? >> i don't remember what it was that made me start listening to kirk again. but i grew up in the church. but i didn't really know how good kirk franklin was until i was in l.a. ♪ god shall wipe away every tear ♪ >> when i stlistening to that, okay, is in what i need to be working on. ♪ the revolution >> it got me into arranging music, understanding how chords work, how -- not just how important pitch is but how important tone is. >> reporter: the rapper became a first-time father in 2015. he and his 1 1/2-year-old daughter kensley take to instagram to show off their daddy/daughter escapades. >> we just look adorable! >> kensley coming in was the refreshing jump start. not even refreshing. it didn't refresh my life, it started my life. when she came along, everything fast tracked and became so much more important. >> reporter: it's also chance's love for his hometown that keeps him grounded. >> i'm a plant. you uproot a

franklin kirk-- clerk for him and said he was wonderful and on the court right now i like a number of the justices, but sonja soda mayor-- i have been to the housing project she grew up in the bronx and single mother and at a time when the idea of this puerto rican woman going up in the housing projects with a single mother making it to the us supreme court was such a long shot and she has done it with such grace and great personal character, but she has met-- a said many great things and sit up for many important causes, so i would look to both of those people. >> lets me add judge martha daughtry. six circuit court amid pete-- court of appeals and judge daughtry was the dissent. she was on our side and she wrote a blistering defense and she was one of the first female law students of vanderbilt university, one of the very first female federal judges. she's unable credible person and also she has been through a lot as a woman in the legal profession, so i think she is also worth learning about and reading about. reading her dissent, it's a blistering. the best word i can come up with