Vic Mensa has dropped the follow-up to his “Strawberry Louis Vuitton” track, teaming up with Chance The Rapper and G-Eazy to deliver “$wish.”
Taking a more rapid-fire approach to spitting 16, the trio — perhaps an unlikely one, on the surface — make it clear that they’re about the big, fast life. The accompanying visualizer sees a street racing car pulling stunts — although it’s unclear who’s driving.
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“Rick Owens steppin’, I’m a rock star in Ramones/ Big house dilemma, cribbo got too many rooms, swish/ I got shooters in the field, they runnin’ zones, when I swish/ Make somethin’ shake for me stop playin’, playin’/ Thick in the hips, she poppin’ pussy and Patrón/ Fist look like Thanos, I got way too many stones, swish/ See me mobbin’ in the ‘Raq, I’m Al Capone…” Mensa opens up the track.
Listen to the rest below:
In January, Vic Mensa dropped the visuals to “Strawberry Louis Vuitton,” which was dedicated to the memory of Virgil Abloh. The official visuals were dropped exclusively via the rapper’s Facebook account on Friday (January 27), the same day the song hit streaming platforms.
The video intermittently shifts between Vic Mensa riding in an airplane as it climbs to a jumping altitude, skydiving while strumming an electric guitar, and walking along a dirt runway. Scenes of a woman waiting for him on a picnic blanket while capturing the footage on a handheld camcorder add to the nostalgic feel of the video.
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Meanwhile, Chance The Rapper recently dropped a freestyle that details the history of colonialism in Africa. The Chicago rapper took to Instagram in March to share the freestyle alongside snippets and pictures juxtaposed with Chance’s rhymes.
The rap highlights how African countries have been exploited for centuries for their resources and labor, with little to no benefit for the people living there. As an example, he cited the forced harvesting of latex from rubber plants in the Congo.
“They stung my savior on a rugged tree/ Mob violence and thuggery,” he raps on the track. “Then they went to Congo for the rubber trees/ Cobalt, Vibranium, Gold mines filled to the brim look like a stadium/ Coffee for the Dutch man/ The French man gone Haiti them.”
Also in March, G-Eazy dropped “Tulips & Roses,” the rapper’s first single since the passing of his mother in 2021.
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On the Gabriels-sampled track, G affirms that he’s back in the game and ready to dominate again.
“My star’s back shining bright, I just polished it,” he raps. “Something in my spirit woke back up/ Time to go to work pick the slack up/ Please no more comparisons you ain’t gotta bring that up/ Salute my brothers we can all coexist/ Took a hiatus, I’m like what did I miss?/ Gerald’s back in his bag they don’t do it like this.”
