Vic Mensa last joined Kanye West for his performance at the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special. The pair performed "Wolves" with Sia from Yeezy's upcoming album, So Help Me God. Now, Mensa has dropped a track featuring his mentor titled "U Mad," and it's another successful collaboration.
Mensa and Yeezy go hard on the new track, rhyming about women, fame and the occasional bar brawl. Check out the full track below, via Pitchfork.
West announced So Help Me God in February, but no release date has been set. The album will feature the rapper's collaboration with Rihanna and Paul McCartney titled "FourFiveSeconds" and another with the former Beatle titled "Only One."
Yeezy spoke to Zane Lowe about the album earlier this year.
"[I'm] just working hard on it, and it's fun, it's fun to work hard and we're being inventive and I've still got a lot of opinions and perspectives that are important and could be inspiring to people that fight," he said. "College Dropout, the album, came out of a fight to want to rap and this new album's coming out of a fight to want to design ... it's a joyful noise unto the Lord. It is still the struggle, but the beauty from the struggle. The song 'Amazing Grace,' coming out of the worst pain possible and making the most beautiful song possible."
So Help Me God will follow up 2013's Yeezus. It was a commercial and critical success behind hits like "Hold My Liquor," "Bound 2" and "Black Skinhead." Rolling Stone gave it a glowing review.
"Yeezus is the darkest, most extreme music Kanye has ever cooked up, an extravagantly abrasive album full of grinding electro, pummeling minimalist hip-hop, drone-y wooz and industrial gear-grind. Every mad genius has to make a record like this at least once in his career," Jon Dolan wrote.
