If you didn’t know who Chris Patrick was before, you do now, or will in the very near future. The New Jersey native, who has previously opened for Travis Scott and received applause from T-Pain, delivered one of the most notable freestyles of the year when he sat down with Kai Cenat and On The Radar’s Gabe P. during “Mafiathon 3.” Rapping over three beats, Patrick went from braggadocious to clever to introspective to emotional as he rhymed his way through stories about opening for Russ, traveling overseas, losing his grandmother, falling on hard times, and much more. His nearly seven-minute display of lyrical excellence earned praise from Kai Cenat, DJ Hed, Ray Vaughn, Russ, and many others within music, streaming, and beyond. To celebrate the success, Chris Patrick offered fans a new single.
“The love [that I’ve received] over the last few days [has] been overwhelming, thank you fr. To every one of y’all who felt my pain with that, I got something special coming for y’all tonight,” Patrick wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Chris Patrick channeled the same pain that fueled the final portion of his “Mafiathon 3” freestyle into something special he calls “Ramen Noodles.” It’s a three-minute track that serves as both an autobiography and a therapy session. The East Orange shares stories of air mattresses gone flat, label promises soured, resilience cobbled together in the margins, and ultimate success with the type of urgency that grabs you and never lets go. Each Patrick’s painful verses bleed into the hook, which hears Patrick trading a tone of aggressive desperation for a tuneful, R&B-vocal as he sings, “All I want is a check with a few hundred thousand.” Then, at the 188-second mark, the song leaves, fading away as Patrick sings and leaves listeners wanting more. This is recovery music, blunt and unfinished, but alive.
