Chicago hip hop artist Vic Mensa has been in studio with Gorillaz creator, Damon Albarn. A new album from the animated group is well in to production and other collaborators on it include Liam Bailey, Jamie Hewlett and French composer Jean Michel Jarre.
Now it seems that we can add rapper Vic Mensa to the list after Remi Kabaka posted an image of Mensa in a recording studio in The Windy City. Kabaka is the voice actor for the fictional Gorillaz band member Russell Hobbs and is the long time producer for the group.

A photo posted by Every5ingleDay (@remikabaka) on May 17, 2016 at 11:58am PDT

Collaborator for visuals Jamie Hewlett has been teasing fans with Instagram posts and videos of new artwork of the band members as well glimpses in to the studio. Yesterday he posted a photo with the caption "Goodbye Chicago". The last studio album released by Gorillaz was 2010's Plastic Beach.

Goodbye Chicago X

A photo posted by hewll (@hewll) on May 17, 2016 at 11:28am PDT

Light me up

A photo posted by hewll (@hewll) on Mar 30, 2016 at 2:21am PDT