Chance the Rapper Looks Back on the Impact of 'Acid Rap'

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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"A rap game Ferris Bueller." "Fun and life affirming." That's what Pitchfork called the buzziest mixtape of 2013: Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap. The mixtape launched Chance's career and put him alongside some of the biggest artists in hip-hop. To commemorate Acid Rap's 10-year anniversary, Sam chats with Chance about his time touring with Mac Miller, Donald Glover, Eminem, and Macklemore after the mixtape's release; his relationship with Kanye West; and how hip-hop — and his own view of politics — has changed in the decade since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Intuit from Vulture and New York Magazine.
0:03.0	I'm your host, Sam Sanders.
0:05.6	Flashback with me to 2013, if you will.
0:10.4	A decade ago.
0:12.0	In 2013, Iron Man is the biggest movie of the year.
0:15.4	Nothing's been the same since New York.
0:17.8	McLemore has the biggest song.
0:20.6	Hey, McLemore, can we go through shopping?
0:24.6	Can you recall thrift shop?
0:26.2	I mean, how could you forget?
0:28.4	Oh!
0:31.4	But the biggest and busiest mixtape of 2013,
0:35.8	that came from Chance the Rapper.
0:37.8	Even better than I was the last time, baby.
0:41.2	It was called Acid Rap.
0:42.8	Will we back?
0:43.8	I'm good.
0:45.8	Acid Rap made Chance a star.
0:48.8	And not every song on this mixtape was happy.
0:53.8	But there was an exuberance that felt extremely festive
0:57.2	and joyous and bummed.
0:59.4	Balancing on sport, GCD, and fucking pure joy.
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