unofficial import version, MINT & SEALED and on purple vinyl!! Acid Rap isn’t trying to be an alternative; it’s an attempt to encompass everything. There are shout outs, musical or lyrical, to practically every important Chicago tradition short of Thrill Jockey. It invites elements of classic soul, juke, gospel, blues-rock, drill, acid jazz, house, ragtime scat, and R. Kelly, Twista, and a young Kanye to the same open mic poetry night, where the kid on-stage is declaiming about what’s going unreported. Its genius is that he somehow makes this work.
The structure is as expansive and freewheeling as any strange trip. Acid Rap is a less about the attempt to break on through than a way of describing the hallucinatory shades, transitory revelations, and cigarette burns of the journey. You can get off or on the bus at any juncture. There is no ideology or orthodoxy. No arbitrary binaries between conscious or gangster, apostle or agnostic. Freaks and free thinkers are accepted. Chance understands that those who are frightening are often frightened, too. He comes off as a guy who could find something in common with anyone but a high school principal.
| A1 | Good Ass Intro (So Good) | 3:59 |
| A2 | Pusha Man | 2:23 |
| A3 | Paranoia (Bonus Track) | 4:38 |
| A4 | Interlude (That's Love) | 2:29 |
| B1 | Cocoa Butter Kisses | 5:08 |
| B2 | Juice | 3:36 |
| B3 | Everybody's Something | 4:37 |
| C1 | Lost | 3:04 |
| C2 | Favorite Song | 3:05 |
| C3 | NaNa | 3:20 |
| C4 | Acid Rain | 3:36 |
| D1 | Smoke Again | 4:32 |
| D2 | Chain Smoker | 3:30 |
| D3 | Everything's Good (Good Ass Outro) | 5:33 |
