Vic Mensa Addresses the Elephant in the Room with "Empathy"

Earlier this week, Hip-Hop tuned into the BET Hip-Hop Awards, where Vic Mensa used his platform to diss XXXTentacion:

The only time you bear arms is in a wife beater, loser
Your favorite rapper’s a domestic abuser
Name a single Vic Mensa song
XXX we all know you won’t live that long
I don’t respect n***as posthumously
Homicide ain’t new to me, catch up with Akademiks at your eulogy…

Naturally, it received a pretty harsh response from most of Vic’s peers — especially given the fact that XXXTentacion’s mother was in the crowd to hear those bars. Following a pre-premiered response, the Chicago emcee has now delivered a new track titled “Empathy,” which sees his addressing the controversy head-on:

They say you shouldn’t cast stones from a glass home
The whole world wanna see me fall, but I stand strong
I say what’s right, but they don’t hear me ’cause my past wrongs
I got so down on my luck, I made it a dance song
Reflected that on the women I’ve loved and left, got a call from my ex
She forgive, but she can’t forget, sometimes I disrespect
I was just keeping it a stack but all of my good intentions turn into bad press…

Listen to the track in its entirety below.

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