This man is flowing effortlessly throughout the entire thing. Multiple different flows, inflections, and tones. Double entendres and wordplay. Surprise endings for certain lines and playing with your preconception of what certain words mean. Vivid imagery. Powerful irony and metaphors. He weaves in 3-4 different themes throughout the song without you even noticing, and reinforces each theme with different lines.

This has been one of my favorite songs since the day it came out, and only 7 years later am I now starting to figure out what the words really mean, to me.

In my opinion, it seems like this is a song about
1. being vulnerable / being exposed.
2. Exposing ugly truths, and "beautiful" lies in the world
3. Using d**** as a coping mechanism for "the rain" (the rain = reality, or the truth)
4. Finding solace in nostalgia

Chance starts the verse by exposing a very small part of himself.

"Kicked off my shoes, tripped acid in the rain"

This is him stripping himself of his shoes, which is just a small step towards him revealing himself. & it's important that he does this at the very beginning, bc I think there is a connection here with "getting your feet wet".
Getting your feet wet = kicking off your shoes in the rain. He can't just go all in at the beginning of the song, he has to get his feet wet first

There's a lot more obviously but I can save it for later if anyone cares for more of a breakdown. I just want y'all to go read the lyrics or listen to the song and ask yourself "is this the greatest verse of all time?"
If you say no, what verse do you think is better and what makes it better?

Idk about greatest verse of all time, but fantastic verse.

Kinda the song that made me a huge fan (at the time)

Amazing verse and amazing song.

Classic tape too

Easily one of my favorite songs of all time

Not true new slaves second verse

pac rolling in his “grave”

His grave was designed by virgil??

cocoa cocoa butter kisses

his grave a beach house in cuba

Unraise it

def up there as Chance's best track

No. But it is Chance's best song and he hasnt even come close to making something as good as that again.

Great song and mixtape

Pusha Man + Paranoia is still dum hard

Paranoia + Acid Rain subject matter is some of my favorite words chance ever spit

I feel like Chance music peaked w this era when he dropped Juice and Acid Rap was bout to drop

was my favorite on the tape back then

Go bar for bar. It's not better

Travis "Beibs in the trap" verse begs to differ

My big homie died young, just turned older than him

vs

Tryna text my account, ain't no service in the mountains (straight up!)

the thought of not having service in the mountains