Emily Zemler
View all posts by Emily Zemler August 4, 2026
Chance the Rapper performs on 'The Tonight Show.' Rosalind O'Connor/NBC via Getty Images Chance the Rapper appeared on The Tonight Show to perform his classic song “Same Drugs” and to chat with Jimmy Fallon about the anniversary of his 2015 mixtape Coloring Book.
The rapper took the late-night show stage alongside a guitarist to showcase the reflective track, one of the songs off Coloring Book. The lyrics famously pay homage to Peter Pan as the rapper considers growing old: “When did you change? Wendy, you’ve aged/ I thought you’d never grow up/ I thought you’d never/ Window closed, Wendy got old/ I was too late, I was too late/ A shadow of what I once was.”
Chance the Rapper sat down with Fallon to discuss the 10-year anniversary of Coloring Book, which won the Grammy for Best Rap Album in 2017. “We really believe in what we [were] making,” he said. “I say we like the band, myself, all the people that worked on it. We wanted it to be great.”
He added, “I think all of the songs came to me at the right time. As you go you collect more and more and you find a thesis and then they just meld together.”
He recalled making 200 versions of “Same Drugs” during that process. “It’s over 200 versions of it,” the rapper said. “I wrote it three years before Coloring Book came out. I wrote it right around the time I released Acid Rap, when I was living in Atlanta. It was just this simple refrain that was referencing Peter Pan and talking about the hardships of eventually growing old. … It ended up being one of my favorite or most proud works.”
