Rolling Stone Vic Mensa Taps Chance the Rapper, Wyclef Jean for New Song ‘Shelter’
Track tackles racial injustice and arrives with video that poignantly captures Covid-19’s impact on black communities
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The song is centered around a poignant guitar loop and finds the three artists tackling racial injustice and systemic inequality with righteous clarity. The song arrives with a fittingly eerie and surreal music video, directed by Andre Muir, in which bodies lie in rest on the street in a nod to the devastating impact Covid-19 has had on black communities.
“’Shelter’ is a spiritual note, a healing frequency,” Mensa said in a statement. “It was inspired not by Hollywood or Paris, but by what’s going on on the ground in the real world, with the real people.”
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Vic Mensa has shared his first new music of 2021 in the form of ‘Shelter’, which features Chance The Rapper and Wyclef Jean.
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The hard-hitting track, which you can hear below, hears Mensa tackle the coronavirus crisis’ disproportionate effects on communities of colour, police brutality, incarceration and more.
A powerful video directed by Andre Muir sees actors lying down to symbolise the disproportionate mortality rate among Black people in the United States due to institutional racism.
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Mensa announced the track yesterday (February 4), describing it as “one of my favorite records I’ve ever done.”
SHELTER ft. @chancetherapper & @wyclef at midnight. This one of my favorite records I’ve ever done. Thank y’all for blessing it
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