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Ever since Spike Lee’s upcoming Chi-Raq was first announced as a “musical comedy” about violence in Chicago, it has drawn considerable ire from several Chicago natives. Lee — who is famously not from Chicago — called the film’s critics “misinformed,” and now Chance the Rapper (recently named a Chicagoan of the Year) is speaking out against the film. In a series of outraged tweets, Chance says the city doesn’t endorse the film, saying, “Let me be the one from Chicago to personally tell you we not supporting this film out here.” He claims the film, based on Lysistrata, is both “exploitative” of the violence that has escalated in the city in recent years and “problematic.”

Let me be the one from Chicago to personally tell you we not supporting this film out here — Chance The Rapper Owbum 📅 (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

That shit get ZERO love out here. Shit is goofy and it's a bunch of ppl from NOT around here telling u to support that shit 🙅🏾🙅🏾🙅🏾 — Chance The Rapper Owbum 📅 (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

The people that made that shit didn't do so to "Save Lives". It's exploitive and problematic — Chance The Rapper Owbum 📅 (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

Also the idea that women abstaining from sex would stop murders is offensive and a slap in the face to any mother that lost a child here — Chance The Rapper Owbum 📅 (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

You don't do any work with the children of Chicago, You don't live here, you've never watched someone die here. Don't tell me to be calm — Chance The Rapper Owbum 📅 (@chancetherapper) December 4, 2015

Update: Spike Lee has responded to Chance’s complaints in an interview with MSNBC: “First of all, Chance the Rapper should say full disclosure: His father works for the mayor. He’s the chief of staff. His father is the chief of staff. Show me any criticism, if you’re so concerned about Chicago, do your research, show me where he’s made criticisms about the mayor. I think your finds will be surprising. He’s not criticized the mayor. Why? His father works for the mayor.” Chance’s father, Ken Bennett, was appointed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff and director of the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement last year.