#635 Vic Mensa, Opinions on tUnE-yArDs, Dolores O'Riordan & Hugh Masekela
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On his debut record, The Autobiography, Vic Mensa raps about his life growing up on the South Side of Chicago. With a confessional tone, he explores topics like community, violence, drugs, and racism. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Mensa about his influences, his struggles and the experience of growing up “five blocks from the projects and five blocks from Obama’s house." Plus, they review the latest album from tUnE-yArDs and Jim pays tribute to the late Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries and Greg bids farewell to South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Chicago! From W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regatus. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm Greg Kott. This week we're talking with the outspoken Chicago rapper Vic M Mensa about music, racism, gun violence, and more. |
| 0:36.0 | People that aren't from Chicago sometimes don't understand how it is that you could be five blocks from the projects and five blocks from Obama's house but it's a |
| 0:45.0 | real thing. Plus we'll review the new album from Art Pop Musician tune yards |
| 0:49.1 | and pay tribute to Dolores O' Reardon, the lead singer of the cranberries and trumpet legend U Masakala. |
| 0:56.0 | That's all coming up on Sound Opinions. |
| 1:01.0 | You're listening to Sound Opinions and Greg later on in the show will be talking with |
| 1:04.8 | Chicago rapper Vic Mensa. An incredible talent who is fast-rising has been |
| 1:10.6 | opening arena shows for Jay-Z put out a phenomenal album we both were |
| 1:14.9 | fond of reviewed last year, but first we've got some new music. |
| 1:18.4 | Oh, it's giving me a heart attack, we jump so high but fall right back. |
| 1:24.4 | Giving me a heart attack, |
| 1:25.9 | a cack, don't let me lose my soul. |
| 1:28.8 | Giving me a hard attack, a cuck, we jump so hard that for a back giving me a heart attack. |
| 1:34.0 | Gac, gac, don't let me lose my soul. |
| 1:37.0 | That's a track called Heart Attack from the new Toonyards album, I Can Feel You |
| 1:45.1 | Creep Into My Private Life, the fourth studio album from Toon Yards, |
| 1:49.6 | aka Merrill Garbus, previous guest on sound opinions. |
| 1:53.9 | She started out as a ukulele playing, drumming, |
| 1:57.0 | vocal loop triggering one woman band on stage |
| 2:01.9 | and that has evolved over the last decade or so. She started out |
| 2:06.8 | you know studying Swahili in Kenya, African music, got into puppet theater of all things. |
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