Rapper Vic Mensa on His Political Debut Album: ‘I Could Never Choose to Be Ignorant’

As any of his loyal fans will tell you, Vic Mensa's much hyped debut studio album The Autobiography has been a long time coming, but it's not because the 24-year-old rapper has been letting grass grow under his feet.

Mensa, a native of South Side Chicago, released his first solo mixtape, Innanetape, in 2013, the same year he started attracting attention as a founding member of the SAVEMONEY rap collective that helped launch the career of Chance the Rapper.