Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, aka Chance the Rapper, never made the school slam team that performed at the "Louder Than A Bomb," competition in Chicago. Kevin Coval the director of the slam poetry festival in Chicago, was one of the judges for the London 2003 slam where inner city teens won a trip to perform at Coval's Chicago slam festival. The Grammy award-winning hip-hop writer describes breakbeat poet Coval as his artistic father in the book entitled 'A People's History of Chicago'.