Vic Mensa talks about his sophomore album, Victor, the Black Star Line competition in Africa, working and collaborating with different artists reminiscent of G-Eazy, Frequent and Probability the Rapper, his hashish model 93 Boyz and extra!
Vic Mensa:
We broke out the sage.
Tetris Kelly:
Oh, after all!
Vic Mensa:
Or the palo santo! And similar to, “Yeah, so what you thinkin’?” What’s up, y’all? I’m Vic Mensa, and also you’re watching them Billboard Information.
Tetris Kelly:
It’s Tetris with Billboard Information. A whole lot of swag simply hit the sofa. What’s up, Vic?
Vic Mensa:
How are you doing, man?
Tetris Kelly:
Let’s discuss this music. You bought your sophomore album coming, and I really feel like your identify has been round so lengthy. It’s loopy that is solely your second providing. So inform me how’s it really feel to place your second piece of labor out?
Vic Mensa:
I’m very enthusiastic about it. It’s actually a narrative of redemption and triumph, and spirituality and love and ache and battle — human expertise. That’s the place I write from. That’s what I purpose to speak and to convey. And I’m simply so excited to open that dialog with any and everybody who listens to this album.
Tetris Kelly:
We’ve obtained some nice collaborators G-Eazy, Frequent, Ty Dolla $ign. Love Ty. So how do you go about deciding who you wish to deliver right into a venture?
Vic Mensa:
I feel in the beginning, it’s like, the relationships as a human being, as a person with these brothers particularly, like these are those that have long-standing private relationships with in order I’m creating music, and I hear a voice to do one thing — Frequent, for instance, is my favourite MC since being slightly child. After I made this music referred to as “Southside Story” that’s that includes Frequent, instantly I knew it’d be loopy to have his voice on right here, and his paintbrush, his texture.
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