Vic Mensa Freestyles Over Pusha T’s “Drug Dealers Anonymous”

Hot 97's annual Summer Jam concert rang off at Met Life Stadium on Sunday (June 5), but a few days prior, Vic Mensa stopped by the New York radio station to coast over Pusha T and Jay Z's "Drug Dealers Anonymous" and he does so with Rosenberg-baffling results. With ties to both G.O.O.D. Music and Roc Nation, Vic finds his pocket on the instrumental with such ease, it's as if he's had time to get familiar with it.

Opening up his free, Mensa raps, "Revolutionary anonymous, secret service want my surveillance like I’m Obama’s kids / 16 shots and now they got me on a wire tap / Run into Trump with a blunt, yerp, fire that." Later on, he evokes the artwork to his recently released There's Alot Going On EP and the shooting range target he embodies on it. In the above clip, he raps, "I know that I’m a target / So I drew it on myself let the industry be the marksman / If you look close you see that every bullet missed my frame / Them 16 shots around me not enough to count the names."

Like his seven track EP, Mensa's bars here pack a socially and politically charged punch, but never waver in terms of lyrical complexity or depth. Vis said in a recent interview, "I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old," and his handiwork here is example enough. Watch his take on the "DDA" beat up top.

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