Chris Crack. Photo by 10photos, courtesy of the artist
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Chicago's Chris Crack is known for his outlandish track titles and songs so short, they're over before you can process what he just said. The new mixtape he released last week, Free Sex, continues the pattern. Ringing in at 26 minutes, the project boasts 16 tracks, most of them averaging around the one-minute mark.
Its fourth song, "Trip Sitters Are The Best Friends" flaunts Chris Crack's strengths in one minute and 11 seconds. The rapper rhymes effortlessly over soulful sample-based beats, immediately filling the room with positive energy. "Pick yourself up, you gotta keep moving / It's the calm before the storm, you gotta get through it," he spits to start it off.
Despite the strong message and nods to mental health, he doesn't take himself too seriously, breezing through his bars by poking fun at religion and delivering quick-witted puns. He ends the track just as he began, encouraging folks with "you gotta pick yourself up, nobody else will do it."
