Vic Mensa’s New Podcast Performs Off Cam’ron Beef & Presents Likelihood The Rapper Premiere
Vic Mensa is taking Hip-Hop past the recording sales space and IG.
The Chicago brother man has responded to alleged beef with Cam’ron with a brand new podcast constructed round tradition politics and the conversations which have formed his worldview.
The Chicago rapper launched “The Vic Mensa Present” on Monday (Aug. 10), with the primary episode scheduled to reach Aug. 26. Likelihood The Rapper will be a part of his fellow Chicago native for the premiere, giving the brand new collection an instantaneous hometown connection.
The present will roll out each Wednesday afterward with 24 episodes deliberate for its first season. Mensa is bringing collectively friends from music, leisure, literature and activism, together with Rapsody, Durand Bernarr, Lena Waithe, Aja Monet and Van Lathan Jr.
Reasonably than merely including one other celeb interview podcast to an already crowded discipline, Mensa is positioning this system as an extension of concepts which have adopted him all through his profession.
“Music, tradition and politics have at all times been intrinsically intertwined in my apply and within the bigger custom from which I emerge,” Mensa tells Billboard. “A lot of my historic and political lens has derived its impetus from music; whether or not studying about Assata [Shakur] from Widespread, battle diamonds from Lupe [Fiasco] and Kanye [West], or capitalism from Lauryn [Hill].”
These musical classes ultimately pushed Mensa towards writing and longer conversations about politics, race and society. His work has appeared in The New York Occasions and Time and people pursuits additionally fueled his Webby-winning “Orange Tree” video collection.
“As I additional unpeeled the concepts that hip-hop launched me to, the dialog expanded past track, discovering its means into my writings in retailers like The New York Occasions and Time, and finally into my Orange Tree collection. From that evolution, The Vic Mensa Present was born — an area to deepen the dialogue by involving artists, thinkers, family members and sensible minds throughout mediums within the many discussions I’ve been holding concerning the human situation.”
“The Vic Mensa Present” is being launched by means of a partnership with Mass Attraction and ORANJ, Mensa’s new multidisciplinary manufacturing firm. Pickup Media and Clean Sq. Productions are government producing alongside Mensa. Episodes are anticipated to be distributed throughout main podcast platforms together with Spotify, Apple and YouTube.
The challenge additionally provides Mensa one other outlet for the social and political pursuits which have more and more occupied area alongside his music. The 33-year-old has remained concerned with grassroots applications, charitable work and neighborhood initiatives in Chicago.
“The Orange Tree illustrated for me the transcendent potentialities of dialog: an area for the dialogue of radical concepts, humor, honesty and vulnerability,” Mensa stated in an announcement. “What started as a dialog with my neighborhood on-line is now increasing, by means of The Vic Mensa Present, to incorporate nice minds that I respect throughout many disciplines.”
Musically, Mensa’s most up-to-date studio album was “Victor,” launched in 2023. He later appeared on Likelihood The Rapper’s 2025 album “Star Line.”
