Vic Mensa Debuts New Song “Stoner”

Fans at the 2016 Zumiez Best Foot Forward Finals in Seattle, Wash. got a special treat from Vic Mensa. The Chicago rapper debuted a new track called "Stoner" during his performance at the skateboard contest.

"They say Vic are you okay/Dude no way/I don't even know no more/I don't even blow no more/But I be leaning like a cholo/Tony Hawk, I'm goin overboard," Vic raps on the song.

The record features more of the brutal honesty listeners heard on Vic Mensa's There's Alot Going On EP. Vic has been very open about his battle with drugs in both his music and interviews.

"I was in a point of time since probably 2013 where I jumped from drug to drug as, like, a creative crutch," Vic recently told the Phoenix New Times. "It was really like a handicap, but I got to a point where I just felt like I needed drugs to write, to be creative."

In that interview, Vic Mensa spoke about a bad trip which had him contemplating suicide. The rapper said that trip had a long lasting impact on him.

"I was in the studio with some of my friends and we did acid and we started buggin’ out, somehow things just took a really negative turn. I just felt really low and at the bottom of it, and I was on the ground trying to sink into the floor. Then I went outside and I went to my car. It was near Halloween and I had this toy pistol in my trunk, it was part of my costume. And I’m just glad it wasn’t a real pistol. I was just thinking about bridges and all that suicidal shit. It scarred me for a while. I was definitely dealing with that bad trip for at least a year."

Now, Vic is in a much better place with a renewed focus on helping others. The MC just participated in Vevo's "Why I Vote" mini-series to shed a light on the importance of participating in the election.

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