During Governors Ball/Summer Jam weekend in New York City last weekend, a who’s who of music stars converged on New York City and talked, partied and performed in various places (or streets, if you’re G.O.O.D. Music). One of those places was Jay Z‘s 40/40 Club on Sunday night, where Vic Mensa celebrated his birthday and a successful impromptu show at Webster Hall, where he played in lieu of his Governors Ball set being cancelled in the wake of inclement weather. During the night’s festivities, Vic and his longtime friend and collaborator, Chance The Rapper, posed for a sure-to-be iconic photo with Jay Z and Beyonce that quickly went viral.
Vic has obvious ties to the Carter family, thanks to his signing to the Roc late last year, and Chance has developed a relationship of his own, to the point where he refers to Bey as “Auntie Yoncé.” Vic and Chance are regarded as the leaders of the new wave of Chicago music that gained international prominence in 2013, and their Save Money collective has been instrumental. Unfortunately, today, there appears to be trouble in paradise.
Vic Mensa, who’d previously uploaded the picture with the caption “Birthday with friends,” re-uploaded the picture today with the same caption, but there was something noticeably different: Chance The Rapper had been blacked out of the photo.
There has been no other recent indicator of bad blood or a feud between the two artists. It’s worth noting, however, that back in 2013, Chance rapped “If you touch my brother, all that anti-violence goes out the window along with you and the rest of your team” in reference to Vic, directly after admitting that the two still get jealous of each other. Hopefully that hasn’t evolved into anything full-blown in 2016, considering how essential both these artists are to the current and future landscape of Hip Hop.
