Straight out of Chicago came Vic Mensa with a very different story than many of his contemporaries from Chi. Vic attended the same high school as Chance the Rapper, but he was once in an indie rock group called Kids These Days. Mensa’s eclectic list of musical inspirations range from A Tribe Called Quest, J Dilla, Nas, and the Hieroglyphics crew, to Prince, Jimi Hendrix, Gorillaz and Nirvana.

By 2016, Vic Mensa was already a Grammy Award nominee for being a songwriter on Kanye West’s song “All Day,” and dropped his debut album The Autobiography on Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation with an interesting mix of features: Weezer, Pharrell Williams, Saul Williams, Syd, The Dream, Chief Keef, Ty Dolla $ign, and Joey Purp. But after entering the music industry with this big album and the pair of Eps that proceeded it: “There’s A lot Going On” and “The Manuscript” to be specific, many of his fans now need an answer to the question, “what happened to Vic Mensa?”

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