Listen to Vic Mensa Rip His Verse on "Hands," Produced by Tree

This is a banger.

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Tree, a rapper and producer out Chicago, shared a number of unreleased records with NahRight for their "Heavy Rotation" series. One of the five songs included was "Hands" featuring Vic Mensa. Tree says the files for the song were lost, and what he had left was a "dirty version." Dirty is a great way to describe "Hands," because it definitely sounds like a rough draft from their session that took place a year or so ago. It's also dirty in the sense that it is melodically and lyrically raw.

Tree is proud about the collaboration with Vic, who he met a while ago as he tells NahRight:

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Tree does his part by delivering a soul trap backdrop complete with a piercing soul sample ala Kanye West in the early 2000s. Vic Mensa then jumps in with a 16-bar verse that highlight's a young MC's determination to win. His unique voice weaves in between the dirty drums and he flips his words with a finesse that is rarely heard from a teenage rapper. It's also evident how much progress he's made between "Hands" and his impressive new mixtape INNANETAPE. Clearly Vic's hard work is paying off, too, as evidenced by his recent tweet of joining Mobb Deep in the studio.

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