Vic Mensa's genre-blending INNANETAPE might be his official introduction for listeners who only know him as part of the now disbanded Chicago-based group Kids These Days. But it was actually a night of celebration and antics with those former band members that give birth to Mensa's latest project.
"The inspiration came from me tweakin' one night with a lot of friends at my homegirl's house," Vic told MTV News of the project, led by the singles "Orange Soda," and "Hollywood LA." "It was actually the night that Kids These Days' Traphouse Rock album had just finished mastering and we [wanted to] go get out of our minds, and listen to it front to back."
And, apparently, even when you're tweakin', a little WiFi still comes in handy. "I was just [asking] my friend, 'yo do you have the Internet?' because it was her house. And she was like 'I am the Internet.' His response? "Hell no, you're not the Internet girl, I'm the Internet. And from then on I was the Internet. So I just kept running with it."
With a title down, the only thing left to do was start recording. Vic hit the studio the following day to get working on early tracks like with producer and friend Cam, but he still had plenty of inspiration left on that first night.
"'Hollywood LA' was one of the first songs I made that actually stayed on the tape, but I thought I made the whole INNANETAPE, the night I decided I was the Internet," he said laughing. ...
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