Album: Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap
A few years removed from Acid Rap’s 2013 debut as a free mixtape, it’s surprisingly easy to hear impending greatness in Chance the Rapper. This hindsight comes, of course, well after the BET, Soul Train and NAACP Image awards for best new artist, the Best Rap Album Grammy, hosting Saturday Night Live, the noted influence on rap demigod Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, the friendship with the Obama family, the Kit Kat endorsement and so on. But it’s here, across 13 genre-melding tracks (14, if you count the second half of “Pusha Man”), on the follow-up to 2012's debut 10 Day.