When it comes to joy in hip-hop, Chance the Rapper has a stranglehold.

Rapping in a high-pitched ribbit, he has become one of hip-hop ’s signature stars of the 2010s by enthusiastically following a path others rarely even peek down: jubilation, ecstasy, positivity, glee. It’s in his subject matter, and it’s in his delivery — an indefatigable belief in the power of positive rapping.

Chance, 26, got married in March, and large swaths of his new album, “The Big Day,” are devoted to the joys of wedded life, a topic that has made for very little worthwhile music. The pains of divorce, the wounds of betrayal, the clouds of mistrust — rich muses, all of them. But pure marital bliss is challenging to render as richly textured.

In places here, Chance achieves that with his musical selections; his palette is broad. “I Got You (Always and Forever)” has the swing of the early 1990s — Heavy D, the “Living Single” theme song, and so on — and Chance opens with an early Busta Rhymes flow pattern. The excellent “Ballin Flossin” takes a sample of Brandy’s “I Wanna Be Down” and jostles it into an up-tempo house record. “Found a Good One (Single No More)” lays gospel overtones atop a foundation of Miami bass.

This is Chance’s real provocation on this album: suggesting that the same mediums that transmit sin might also transmit salvation. Often his touchstone is the hybrid gospel-pop of artists like Kirk Franklin and Tye Tribbett. Add to that a lyrical approach that emphasizes cleverness in rhyme, and sometimes the result leans toward the tightly wound thrill ride of musical theater.