Mensa says he had to do some serious personal housecleaning before he could get to the stage where he could write such brutally direct lyrics and music. "The EP was made while I was writing music for the next album," which he says he hopes to have ready this year. "I made another entire album in the last couple years, but I was on drugs, and it didn't feel real to me. I started fresh after turning my life around. I'm in a space where I'm more clear and focused than I have been in a long time. I feel like myself for the first time since, I don't know, age 17. Right now I'm tapped into who I want to be, where I want to go. I've been 100 percent sober since January, so for the last six months, I stopped doing drugs and I'm not going to do drugs anymore. I like thinking with a clear head, I'm comfortable in my reality, as difficult as it can be sometimes."