Over the past few months, Chance the Rapper has parlayed Coloring Book into accolades like "Best New Artist" and "GQ cover boy," and maybe it's time to add "burgeoning politician" to the list. After his Grammy win in February, Chance seized upon a congratulatory tweet from Illinois governor Bruce Rauner by asking if the two could sit down and talk shop sometime soon.

Rauner was willing—plus, for politicians, now is probably not a great time to be saying no to Chance the Rapper—and the pair finally got together on Friday afternoon. Chance's request, it turns out, stems from his concern the funding for Chicago Public Schools, which has become a pawn in a bitter, two-year political struggle over the state budget between Rauner, a Republican, and Democratic state senate president John Cullerton. Illinois has not approved a full budget in two years, but the legislature has pushed through stopgap measures in order to keep schools open and running.

That changed in late November when Rauner, unsatisfied with the concessions Cullerton and his Democratic colleagues had made on pension reform, vetoed a bill that would have allotted $215 million to Chicago Public Schools. With the rug pulled out from under it, CPS is staring down the possibility of laying off thousands of staff or even shortening the school year. In February, the city's Board of Education sued the state on behalf of the city's black and Hispanic students, alleging that the state education funding scheme unlawfully discriminates against CPS' predominantly minority student body. (Despite enrolling nearly 20 percent of the state's students, CPS gets only about 15 percent of Illinois' education budget.)

Chance, Chicago's favorite son, has been understandably dismayed by these developments. Based on his comments after his meeting with Rauner, though, it does not sound like the two made a whole ton of progress on Friday.