“Next time I’m in church, please, no photos,” Kanye West rapped in 2009, on Jay-Z’s “Run This Town.” If any rapper had found a way to make sacred spaces part of the secular conversation, it was Mr. West, but by that point in his career, he’d come to realize that it went both ways — you had to be prepared for the ways the secular world could impose upon your private worship space.

It took Chance the Rapper, a devout student of Mr. West, a shorter period of time to arrive at this conclusion. On his new song “First World Problems” — which he debuted this week on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” before the song even had a title — Chance sounds exhausted and burdened. “I go to church, they want a flick/I wanna flip the table,” he raps.

This meditation on burnout is really a series of winces. Chance confesses to being an absentee parent, a bad cousin, missing his high school prom, being busier than a hummingbird. For two and a half verses, Chance bathes in his melancholia. But midway through the third verse, he finds a reserve of energy, not to serve himself, but others: He talks about dirty water in Flint, and bent knees and the hypocrisy of bigots. So much horror in the world: He can’t slow down now. J.C.