Wow, this is truly a beautiful moment in music right now, as Chicago’s own Vic Mensa just blessed the world with his highly anticipated album The Autobiography. If you are anything like me, you have been impatiently waiting this moment ever since he dropped Innanetape back in September of 2013, and you are feeling nothing but pure joy as you first dive into this one. The intro to this tape is beautiful to say the least, Vic jumped on the most ear pleasing & soulful beat that I have heard in recent memory and reflected on his life. The momentum carried all the way throughout the project, each song seemingly being better than the last. This album is a total of fifteen tracks in length, and contains some fantastic features from Weezer, Syd, The-Dream, Pharrell, Saul Williams, Ty Dolla $ign, Pusha T, The O’Mys, Chief Keef & Joey Purp! One track that really stuck out to me was “Heaven On Earth”, because Vic told the story behind his friend that was tragically murdered in Chicago a few years ago, but the main thing that grabbed my attention was how he spit a verse from his perspective, Cam’s perspective, then finally the gunman’s point of view. If you ask me, Vic outdid himself with this body of work, I have nothing but good things to say about it. The story telling, the aggressive verses, the excellent production, the all around idea of the album, it was just all perfect. Enough reading about it though, stream the brand new album here for yourself & let me know what you think about it in the comments!
