Chicago rapper faces the ultimate question.

A new short film by director Colin Tilley for Vice‘s I’m Short Not Dumb series stars Chancellor Bennett, aka Chance The Rapper, as a depressed young man looking for a way out.

Stuck in a menial job, Bennett considers suicide but finds himself unable to do it. That’s when he comes across a website for Mr. Happy that schedules his murder for two days later. The next day Bennett meets someone who makes him reconsider the contract he just took out on himself.

The film came about after Tilley met Bennett on the shoot for Justin Bieber’s ‘Confident’ video. He told Vice that “we were shooting Chance’s part and we got to hang out all day and got into some really cool conversations. We talked about film and he was telling me how he wanted to get more involved in it. Crazily enough, he had a lot of the same taste in weird movies as I do. A couple days later I get pitched this idea for Mr. Happy. After getting together with my friends who wrote it—Steve Mcclean and David Singer-Vine—I sent it to Chance, he loved it. After trying to find a consecutive five days in his whirlwind of a schedule we figured it out and shot the movie.”

You can watch the result below.

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