How Much Acid

“[There] was a lot of acid involved in Acid Rap,” he said, chuckling. “I mean, it wasn’t too much — I’d say it was about 30 to 40 percent acid … more so 30 percent acid.” So naturally, we had to ask: Was it difficult to rap under that influence?“No, it’s not hard to rap on acid,” he responded matter-of-factly. “But it wasn’t the biggest component at all. It was something that I was really interested in for a long time during the making of the tape, but it’s not necessarily a huge faction at all. It was more so just a booster, a bit of fuel. It’s an allegory to acid, more so than just a tape about acid.”

Chance’s flow, by the way, is certainly a unique one, but again, that wasn’t just the acid rapping. “It’s definitely changed,” he explained of the way he spits his bars. “I used to sound just like Kanye when I rapped because that was all I listened to. I went through my Kanye phase, went through my Eminem phase, my Lil Wayne phase, my Andre [3000] phase.” “I listened to a lot of different music, and when you listen to something, it’s not really a choice of yours on whether the influence will come through — it’s inevitable. But I have found my own sound and I’m still experimenting with it and it’s never gonna sound the same. It doesn’t sound the same from 10 Day and it definitely doesn’t sound the same as the stuff I was doing when I was a freshman in high school.”