All Night — Chance the Rapper ft. Knox Fortune

Look for a Kaytranada remix of “All Night” and you land on the original. The song, with Knox Fortune on vocals, is the tenth track on Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book, and the credits name Kaytranada as co-producer. It sits on a mixtape that critics described as upbeat gospel rap and that went on to win a Grammy.

A Kaytranada production, not a remix

The track is produced by Chance the Rapper and Kaytranada. The writing credits go to Kevin Rhomberg (Knox Fortune), Louis Kevin Celestin (Kaytranada’s real name) and Nico Segal. On the wider mixtape, production was shared between Chance’s group The Social Experiment, Lido and Kaytranada, among others.

The sample at the heart of it is “Dealer’s Corner” by Sven Torstenson. Sampling runs through the whole mixtape: “Juke Jam” uses Mount Kimbie’s “Adriatic”, “Summer Friends” borrows from Francis and the Lights, “How Great” interpolates the worship song “How Great Is Our God”, and the “Blessings” reprise samples Fred Hammond.

Coloring Book

Coloring Book is Chance the Rapper’s third mixtape, after 10 Day and Acid Rap. It came out on 13 May 2016, first exclusively on Apple Music, then on other streaming services from 27 May. Recorded at Chicago Recording Company, it runs 14 tracks and 57 minutes. It reached No. 8 on the Billboard 200, the first release to chart there on streams alone, and stayed on the chart for 33 consecutive weeks.

In 2017 it won Best Rap Album at the 59th Grammy Awards, the first streaming-only album to win a Grammy. The RIAA later certified it platinum, and it kept selling: No. 33 on the Billboard 200 year-end chart for 2017, a year after its release.

In the mix

In a DJ set, “All Night” is the bridge track from Coloring Book: a Kaytranada production that can follow house as easily as rap. For his remix work, dig into “Girl” by The Internet (Kaytranada Remix).