[Video] Vic Mensa: "Orange Soda"
It seems like Vic Mensa has been channeling his inner-Kel Mitchell with the latest video for his song, "Orange Soda." A few weeks after he came out with "Did It B4," Mensa's back with the Verluxe-directed video for the next single from his upcoming mixtape, INNANETAPE. The song has a relaxed R&B vibe with a smooth bass line holding the rhythm down behind Mensa's vocal delivery.
You can check out "Orange Soda" below. Remember, INNANETAPE is coming out super soon, but you can catch Mensa and the rest of the SaveMoney Army tonight at FakeShoreDrive's Red Bull Sound Select show at the Double Door. Information on that is here.
http://youtu.be/ZLp7M5SMBkQ
[Video] Vic Mensa: "Did It B4" + KTD Breakup
Vic Mensa was arguably the first artist from this booming Chicago generation to obtain national attention when he released his debut EP Straight Up, a couple of years ago. Now that everybody is trying to share the spotlight, Vic felt fitting to remind you all who paved the way with this new video/single entitled "Did It B4". The SaveMoney emcee murked the track with straight raps and no fillers, while director Austin Vesely brings the eccentric and edgy feeling the song transpires through a visual perspective.
On a sad note though, today was officially announced the Kids These Days break-up. Vic talked to XXL about the split:
"It’s never going to be an “I hate you” type of situation. For the most part it’s a happy settlement. There were certain moves made by some people that weren’t all the way stand-up moves, but at the end of the day there isn’t really any bad blood. It’s not like I can’t be in the room with everybody in the band, and I wish everybody the best. But the band breaking up wasn’t my ultimatum, I didn’t bring that to the table, but once it was brought to the table it kind of opened up a world I’d already been living in in my own head for a while. I just see it as a great opportunity. Kids These Days was great and it was a lot of fun, but now I want to do something different."
We wish everyone involved in KTD the best of luck in any future endeavors and hopefully we'll hear more from them individually soon!
http://youtu.be/qvXnymQ1Glw
[Interview] Vic Mensa Is The Internet
Any way you look at it, Vic Mensa is a staple in Chicago's innovative musical landscape. The college-aged musician has been swerving through all the correct lanes since 2009 and has countless solo material under his belt, along with his role as a lead member of one of the nation's most exciting young bands in Kids These Days. What's next you may ask? I spoke to Mensa last night at SoundScape where he was working on his a new solo project, which is tentatively titled The Internet.
"I had this beat machine for a little while and just bullshitted with it for mad long," Vic says about the early stages of the project, one that will feature mostly his own production. "When I was on tour I was just sitting around, fucking with the beat machine because I was on the bus for so long. When I got off tour, I got into a groove of making simple ideas enough to write a song to."
With Traphouse Rock released, and some time off before their next tour, Vic has time to focus on his own solo project, one that was born out of a mushroom trip in which he convinced himself he was the Internet. He stuck with the concept after the shrooms wore off and saw real world parallels to his crazy trip. "The climate of the world we live in, the fabric of the society we live in, is so amorphous right now, something that’s constantly changing," he said during a break in recording. "I think the Internet is a representation of continuous change on its own, and I am that mothafucka."
Vic is in the earliest stages of the project and has no expectations or reasons to rush out the music, but we could see something this spring or summer. Before then, he is still playing shows with Kids These Days and continuing to build with is SAVEMONEY camp. We'll keep you posted on the new project as time goes on. For now, keep bumping that Traphouse Rock.
[Closed Sessions] Sir Michael Rocks: "So Stupid" feat Vic Mensa (prod by DJ Babu)
When DJ Babu came out to Chicago last October to DJ at our "Natural High" release party, I knew we could set up a pretty ill Closed Session with some of Chicago's rising emcees. Babu left it up to me, and I asked Sir Michael Rocks of The Cool Kids and Vic Mensa of Kids These Days to take part in a session with the Dilated Junkie. Both were fans of Babu, and also wanted to work with each other, which they had previously never done. What they created is "So Stupid", the latest drop from Closed Sessions Vol. 2, which drops in full tomorrow, August 30th.
The collaboration is multifaceted, with the various angles explored in the short documentary. On one hand, you have DJ Babu trying to re-introduce himself to a new and younger audience. You also have Sir Michael Rocks entering a new stage in his career after breaking out as part of The Cool Kids in 2008. Lastly, there is Vic Mensa, who is just starting his ascent as part of Kids These Days. They all intersect here. Watch the new video and download "So Stupid" on the next page.
RH First Look: Vic Mensa
"The only way it's really affected me personally is by making me feel like I have to get it popping ASAP while I still am so young, but a bit of motivation never hurt anyone," says Vic Mensa, the youngest member of Brainiac Society a collective of artists, DJs, and producers handpicked by Naledge of Kidz In The Hall.
Mensa was added to the crew in the winter of 2009, attending studio sessions as soon as the final bell rang at Chicago's Whitney Young where he is still a student. "I’ve pretty much always been able to get by in school without having to do too much, so I've really just kept on doing what I've been doing. There have been those nights when I miss homework time because I'm in the studio, but it's all good."
It's all good because Mensa displays "better than good" emceeing abilities. Put in his music and it's very easy to forget that he's not old enough to vote. On the heels of his first release, an EP titled Straight Up, we turn our First Look spotlight on Chicago's youngest hopeful, Vic Mensa.
Vic Mensah: "Save Money" (Get Money Remix)
So....I've been getting mad response to the homie lil Vic Mensah...so I figure since people are asking they shall recieve... here is Vic Mensah - "Save Money" (Get Money Remix). Get it below.