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Vic Mensa on ‘The Autobiography,’ Sobriety, and Empathy (Ep. 336)

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The Ringer

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4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Ringer’s Micah Peters sits down with rapper Vic Mensa to discuss his upcoming album ‘The Autobiography’ (0:30), becoming sober while battling depression (4:40), forgiving the man who killed his friend (10:00), and working with producer No I.D. (16:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:05.0

Yeah.

0:10.0

Hello, my name is Micropeter and I'm a staff writer with the ringer and this is a special edition of the channel 33 podcast.

0:16.6

I'm here with rapper Vic Mensa. How you doing today, ma'am?

0:20.0

Good. So around the release of the manuscript, you went to real talk 92.3.

0:29.1

When you were talking about the upcoming album, the autobiography out on Friday, July 28th,

0:34.9

and you said that it was going to be more personal.

0:37.2

And on the first song, which samples this Dorado record called Ditt and I,

0:42.8

which I only know that because I saw it in a breaking bad episode.

0:46.2

I think that's where the producer smoker on I saw it too.

0:50.0

Seriously? Yeah.

0:51.4

That one scene where he like puts the thing in the hood of the car.

0:54.4

I haven't seen the scene.

0:55.6

You haven't seen it?

0:56.4

I knew the song already because my boys, the Omis, the really dope band from Chicago.

1:02.9

That's the version that you hear right at the beginning of the record.

1:06.4

They've been playing that song for like 10 years in their live concerts.

1:10.5

So that's how I knew of the song.

1:12.0

I always thought it was their song actually.

1:13.9

Oh, really?

1:14.5

Yeah.

1:15.0

What did it, but so did, was it smoker that told you that it was actually Dorado that sang it?

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