Skip to Content
News

Watch Vic Mensa’s Monstrous Freestyle Over Kendrick Lamar’s “HiiPower”

LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 20: Rapper Vic Mensa performs at Prophets of Rage and Friends’ Anti Inaugural Ball at the Taragram Ballroom on January 20, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

|Kevin Winter/Getty Images

We don't post a whole lot of radio-show freestyles here, but sometimes radio-show freestyles are special. Last year, Chicago rapper Vic Mensa released his impressive official debut LP The Autobiography. And on Friday, the day the album came out, he stopped by the Sway In The Morning radio show to absolutely decimate the beat from "HiiiPower," a J. Cole-produced track from Kendrick Lamar's 2011 album Section.80. He just really tore that shit up. Watch it below.

[videoembed size="full_width" alignment="center"][/videoembed]

And while we're on that Vic Mensa media-blitz shit, here's his genuinely entertaining conversation with Hannibal Burress on Burress' Handsome Rambler podcast:

And while I haven't watched it yet, I'm reasonably certain that Mensa on Desus & Mero is worth watching:

[videoembed size="full_width" alignment="center"][/videoembed]

The Autobiography is out now on Roc Nation.

GET THE STEREOGUM DIGEST

The week's most important music stories and least important music memes.