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Vic Mensa Announces Debut Album The Autobiography, Out This Month

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)

Vic Mensa has announced The Autobiography, his debut album. It’s out July 28. Today, the Chicago rapper posted a photo of himself standing behind a bookstore window scrawled with the words “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS TOLD BY VIC MENSA BASED ON A TRUE STORY.” (Previously, he’d been working on a debut album called Traffic.) Mensa released his EP The Manuscript last month.

https://twitter.com/VicMensa/status/884871348241055744

Today, Mensa posted Google Maps printouts of bookstores in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, and instructed fans to take a photo at the location. “If you’re fast enough,” Mensa said in a tweet. “[I]’ll play u my debut album this weekend.”

https://twitter.com/VicMensa/status/884811399179886592