Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

10th ANNIVERSARY VINYL If Chance the Rapper's 2012 debut mixtape, 10 Day, was exciting, its 2013 follow-up Acid Rap was nothing short of monumental, heightening the enthusiasm, personality, and creative power of the already impressive debut. Chance's combination of nonstop charisma and genuine rap skills would have made him stand out over even the most generic instrumentals, but his euphoric blur of gospel, jazz, soul, and multiple eras of hip-hop production made his tracks even more infectious. Acid Rap amplifies Chance's stylistic dexterity and slaphappy genre juggling with clearer production, and the psychedelic undercurrent hinted at in the title comes through in the form of riskier songwriting moves and lyrics born from the kind of cosmic thinking that happens at the peak of an acid trip. There's a mellow joyousness that flows throughout the mixtape, even when Chance is getting into bars about paranoia, overdoing it with substances, or even losing friends. "Favorite Song" is brigh