It’s been a tumultuous week for Vic Mensa. The Chicago rapper faced criticism following a performance during the Bet Hip-Hop Awards in which he denounced domestic abusers, with a line that many assumed was aimed at the late Florida rapper XXXTentacion. “Only time you bear arms is in a wife-beater, loser/Your favorite rapper’s a domestic abuser,” he rapped, before following with the line “I don’t respect [censored] posthumously.” While it’s unclear what he said in the line that Bet censored, many have guessed that it identified XXX by name.
- 10/17/2018
- by Brendan Klinkenberg
- Rollingstone.com
Vic Mensa draws from African music on the rapper’s new single “Metaphysical,” a song “for the ladies,” the rapper proclaimed.
“This is a song about desire. Admiration. Respect. Uncertainty. Surrender,” Mensa said of the single in a statement. “Musically it’s African, tribal. My father is Ghanian so I’ve wanted to take it there for a long time. I got Stefan Ponce who did ‘Down On My Luck’ for me & Papi Beatz and just spoke my truth into song.”
The artwork for “Metaphysical” also draws from the album...
“This is a song about desire. Admiration. Respect. Uncertainty. Surrender,” Mensa said of the single in a statement. “Musically it’s African, tribal. My father is Ghanian so I’ve wanted to take it there for a long time. I got Stefan Ponce who did ‘Down On My Luck’ for me & Papi Beatz and just spoke my truth into song.”
The artwork for “Metaphysical” also draws from the album...
- 7/27/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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