Songs that Matter: Chance the Rapper feat Noname - Lost (2013)

 


People say "you had to be there" but to be a teenager in Chicago in the early 2010s you just had to be there to know the momentum and omnipresence of Chance the Rapper and his mixtapes. 10 Day never got a huge amount of air play out of me but Acid Rap was just 100% the sound of the city from the Southside suburbs to Westside hoods. The cover art alone is so nostalgic for me. This was the sexiest song to me when I was 15. Takes me right back to first period freshmen year of high school; sitting in the chair attached to my desk daydreaming....

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