Vic Mensa shares his new album “Victor”.
Vic Mensa continues putting out new music as he finally releases his brand new album “Victor”, titled after his real name Victor Kwesi Mensah. This is the Chicago rapper’s second studio album, a follow-up to 2017’s “The Autobiography”. Just recently, the rapper celebrated his 30th birthday with a playlist album “93′ to 23′: VICTOR”.
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The new album comes with a pack of 18 tracks, with guest appearances from Jay Electronica on “The Weeping Poets”, G-Eazy & Chance The Rapper on “$wish”, Common on “$outhside”, Rapsody on “Blue Eyes”, Ty Dolla Sign on “Eastside Girl” and more.
“The album was originally going to be called C Tape to finish off the V Tape and I Tape EP trilogy, but I think just in the process of doing that, opinion on EPs really shifted. People devalue music. People are like, Man, it’s astounding that this is only your second album, you know?” he told Grammy. “It’s not such a big difference from seven songs to 10 songs but its reception means so much. When you say “album” people just think completely differently. So instead of doing the VIC trilogy, I thought, let me just use my name. Just call it Victor.”
He continued, “About last October, I was on a deep dive on mushrooms in the woods and I was meditating on the genesis of my name. I was named Victor to commemorate the victories and battles of an ancestor from my father’s family — he was fighting in the Burma Camp in Ghana against the invasion of the British and the subsequent robbing of African people from the continent. In many ways, he was a freedom fighter.”
“I speak a lot in this album about working to have people released from prison, like man, this was ordained for me. You know, it’s no coincidence that I would be named after a freedom fighter and I would grow to become one myself. And I had another realization in that moment: That no matter what I experience — the ups, downs, scuffles, controversies — I am named to be the victor of them all.”
Mensa’s previous album “The Autobiography” was released through Roc Nation and Capitol Records. It featured appearances from Chief Keed, Pharrell Williams, Ty Dolla Sign, Pusha T and more. The Autobiography debuted at number 27 on the US Billboard 200 chart, moving 15,977 copies in the first week.
