The 13th track on Vic Mensa's debut album, The Autobiography, this finds the Chicago rapper explaining that his people can achieve a lot more united than divided. That we could be free If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other Mensa explained the song's meaning to Billboard: "The vision is religion of power. That's how you rule and conquer to separate your subjects, and I think that particularly at this point in time, we are at such a moment when the differences between people of different colors, ethnic backgrounds, theological sects are being highlighted more than ever. It's crazy because all you have to do is leave outside of a major city in most places in the nation for the entire outlook on life to do a full 180. I live in Chicago, and you could spend your whole life in Chicago not interacting with anyone conservative, any Trump supporters. In the city of Chicago, you could spend your whole life in [that bubble] of progressive, urban people. And then you could go an hour outside of Chicago to Kankakee, Illinois, and you got the KKK. You know what I'm sayin'? It's like the boundaries that separate us are so thin, and I feel that this separation is really just a tool of the powers that be to benefit from all of our pains. So, the violence in Chicago -- somebody still makes money every time a gun is sold, as with mass shootings in suburbia and rural white America. The NRA and the corporations that make glocks and ammunition, they all experience huge hikes in their profits every time there's one of these murders. Yet, we're convinced by our different media of choice - media and propagandas of choice - that these guns are necessary and they're our right and they in fact keep us safe when they really kill us. I guess that was kind of a long-winded way to say that I just think that I want to use music to unite people."
Vic Mensa debuted the song in September 2016 during his opening act in Paris for Justin Bieber's Purpose World Tour.
Ty Dolla Sign joins Mensa at the end of the song and also croons the outro.
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