The Social Experiment is a Chicago band featuring Donnie Trumpet, Peter Cottontale, and Lido, who has worked with Chance and his SaveMoney crew.

Chance, who recently hinted he was going to drop this album this week, says Surf is "the first Social Experiment project," not a proper Chance the Rapper record. So expect a lot of trumpet courtesy of the Social Experiment's Donnie Trumpet, with Chance playing more of a producer role on the release than anything else.