Wings

Album: The Autobiography (2017)
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  • Here, Vic Mensa reflects on his success and the personal struggles from drug addiction to suicidal thoughts that have come with it.

    Will they love me when I die?
    Will I ever learn to fly?


    Mensa explained to Billboard: "The sentiment behind that lyric was really more just the question of appreciation of art and appreciation of me from an external perspective and just imagining if I was gone. A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I was thinking of - like Rembrandt, van Gogh or Gauguin. Some of those guys, they got whole floors of museums to themselves but weren't really appreciated in their time at all."
  • The song features Pharrell Williams (who also handles production) and singer/poet Saul Williams. During the hook, Pharrell talks about how he is ready to "spread his wings", and let go of the past troubles and issues of his life.

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