JUMPING AT THE CHANCE

Since March, when a particular email arrived in his inbox, Chancelor Bennett — who performs as Chance the Rapper — has been numb to his many successes. The email said, “Lolla sent over an offer. We confirmed. Headlining BMI stage.”

For Bennett, reared in the South Side’s Chatham neighborhood, and privy to the way in which the threeday music festival “is the biggest thing for our city,” it was an unparalleled moment. Says the rapper, now just 20, of his impending Lollapalooza gig Friday: “It’s probably one of the landmark moments of my life.”

Coming from Chance, it’s a big statement: In the time since receiving this offer, he has become one of the brightest music talents to emerge from Chicago — and more impressively, one of the most highly touted new names in all of hip-hop. His recent mixtape, “Acid Rap,” demonstrates his trademark whip- lash wordplay (“the most brokest cold stock broker winter solstice”). It’s also an impressive grab bag of genres that lays down equal parts of jazz, soul and ghetto-tech juke beneath his winding, dexterous flow.

The mixtape’s success is palpable: Chance is in the midst of a 36-date tour with fellow young MCs Mac Miller and Earl Sweatshirt, and he heads to Europe in the coming weeks, where he tours with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and opens for Eminem. (Before his Lolla gig, Chance also will perform at 3 p.m. Friday at artist Hebru Brantley’s pop-up store Penny Candy, 902 S. Wabash.)