Sex,drugs, rap and roll. Vic Mensa's transparency approximately his dysfunctional lifestyle is sobering throughout his confessional Autobiography, and released this summer. But on his latest video,"Rollin' Like a Stoner," he gazes back at his real-life battle with addiction through rock-star-colored lenses.
Directed by Mensa, and "Rollin'" is full of trippy B-film visuals that find the Chicago artist exploring the larger-than-life excess and addiction he devolved into in the years leading up to Autobiography. "Rollin' like a stoner,outta control / 'Cause I got a problem nobody knows," he raps, or in leather jackets as he floats between his motorcycle and drop-top,driving under the influence.
With so many of the genre's stars spinning drugged-out, depressive, or suicidal narratives in 2017,Mensa's absurd self-depiction — which ends with his name lit up on a theater marquee is a reminder that their disastrous lifestyle is our entertainment. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Source: thetakeaway.org