Vic Mensa has continued to preview his new album Victor by dropping off another track from the project called “Blue Eyes.”
The powerful new single finds Mensa reflecting on the role colorism and racism played in his upbringing as a young kid from Chicago, and how he came around to love himself and his culture.
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“It’s like I was livin’ two lives/Internalized self-hatred with racism in society is as American as apple pies/Psychologically terrorized/To the point where the mirror could even tell you lies/I would stare at my parents and wonder why my appearance was different, used to wish I was white, would fantasize,” he raps.
Listen below.
The new track comes as Mensa gears up to drop Victor on September 15, serving as his sophomore follow-up to 2017’s The Autobiography – which peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard 200.
The rapper teased the album with a new trailer earlier this week, which finds a shirtless Vic Mensa sitting on a stool in the center of an art gallery as artists work around him. It closes on a portrait of him one of the painters was creating.
“And I tried to tell you that I’m not gon’ stop/I was down bad, still came out on top,” he raps on the song. “I been up a milli, brought it back to the block/Give no fuck, middle finger up ’til I drop!”
The new album comes as Vic Mensa finds himself in some legal trouble. As seen in a court docket obtained by HipHopDX last month, Vic Mensa is scheduled to appear in landlord-tenant court on Friday (August 25) to answer for an eviction request.
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The initial claim for eviction was filed on July 25, alleging the rapper is behind more than $8,000 in unpaid rent. For his part, Vic has disputed the claims, while alleging that the landlord actually put his family in danger.
The attorney for 3936 S Indiana LLC, however, is airing his grievances out in the press, issuing a statement TMZ about the case.
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The landlord’s attorney, George Georgopoulos, is lamenting that the owner “is left holding the bag of paying real estate taxes, maintenance, and other costs for the building while Vic Mensa continues to use and occupy the space without paying rent.”
A rep for Vic Mensa, however, has disputed this, and claimed that the rapper’s steps were necessary to ensure the safety of his girlfriend and his family.
