“Summer Friends” finds Chance reminiscing about growing up in West Chatham, while experiencing all the violence that happens every summer in Chicago. The song is a cry out for change in the city as it speaks on how Chicagoans miss their old friends killed in the summer.

This song shares themes with Acid Rap’s “Paranoia,” and features fellow Chicagoan Jeremih and pop band Francis & The Lights, who created one of Chance’s favorite albums, It’ll Be Better. In an interview with Complex, Chance spoke about Francis saying:

He’s the new Prince, nooooo gas.

This is the fifth collaboration between Chance and Jeremih, with the first four being “Planes (Remix),” “Somewhere In Paradise,” “The End,” and Surf’s “Wanna Be Cool.”