Two of Chicago’s top emcees and lyricist’s to emerge within the last decade-plus, Vic Mensa and Mick Jenkins are back showing why they are two of their generations best with their just released new single, the word. That sees Vic spitting such standout conscious bars as, “They wanna leave my body twitching, try to Kai Cenat me. I’m an Anunnaki. N***as gone take shots when you lead the people in exodus on your Robert Marley. Fvck a stream. My stream of conscious is just a dream. Channeled down from the supreme straight to the muttaqeen. Spitting like I got a ruptured spleen. You know them label n***as want you incircled like the usher chain. You don’t have to call. I don’t mind, I don’t fatigue. I keep it camouflaged. Bet they all fall in my lap. I feel like I’m Santa Claus. Who gon’ get screwed when the hammer falls. Republicans or Democrats. Or demagogues? The publishing. They want a public flogging for punishment. Run off on the masters. I’m on my Harriet Tubman sh*t. The slaves from the Amistad that jumped the ship. Making indie moves like jagger. That’s a shoutout to my brother Mick.” Before Mick then comes in with his own standout bars of, “Funny if you gotta wonder what we teaching these n***as. Just get to the money what we preaching. They’ll do to you whatever they do. To the least of these n***as fasho. You’ll never get the fishscale if they eating the roe. Heating the flow through cracked concrete. You see a rose peaking through bold. That’s the only way seed can grow. We pick the bear the same way the salmon swim against the flow. Penmanship showed that don’t move the needle like a singer.”
Vic and Mick also debuting earlier today alongside the very consciously soulful and creative new single, a just as creatively dope new accompanying video for the track. Which Vic Mensa himself directed and sees him carrying iron collar mics on his neck as if to mimic slaves, while he spits his verses and then Mick under a cross like Jesus while spitting his own standout bars. The visuals helping bring the record to life even more by showing the impact and message of the bars from both Chicago emcees and lyricist’s. The new single and video also coming before Vic drops his highly-anticipated newest project and EP, sundiata, tomorrow. That will also be his first independent release since leaving his longtime home of Roc Nation. Which is why the Juneteenth release date is even more appropriate too.