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EXCLUSIVE: ColorCreative has signed musician, actor, and filmmaker Vic Mensa for management. He’ll beryllium repped by nan company’s co-founder and president, Talitha Watkins, and Trey Witter.
“Vic is simply a existent creator who moves fluidly betwixt hip-hop, acting, activism, fashion, and entrepreneurship without ever losing attraction connected his taste impact. We’ve agelong admired his fearless committedness to his trade and his community,” said Watkins. “We couldn’t beryllium much excited to guidelines beside him supporting his work.”
Coming disconnected a Webby Award triumph for his integer bid Orange Trees, Mensa is simply a multidisciplinary creator whose activity spans music, film, and societal advocacy, often exploring connections betwixt Africa and nan African diaspora done cross-medium storytelling.
In music, Mensa roseate to prominence pinch early projects for illustration Innanetape and his 2017 debut medium The Autobiography, which he followed up pinch Victor (2023) and nan independent EP sundiata (2025). He has collaborated pinch artists including Kanye West, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, and Pusha T, earning nominations from nan Grammys, NAACP Image Awards, and mtvU Woodie Awards.
Alongside his euphony career, Mensa has built an acting resume pinch roles connected Showtime’s The Chi, HBO’s South Side, and Peacock’s Bel-Air. He is besides an emerging filmmaker, pinch his extended euphony video for nan opus “Blue Eyes” earning Best Cinematography astatine nan 2025 Conero Film + ADV Festival. His short movie Halfrican, which he wrote and starred in, continues its tally connected nan show circuit aft premiering astatine SXSW 2026.
Co-founded by Issa Rae, Deniese Davis, and Talitha Watkins, ColorCreative reps clients including Robert Townsend (The Bear), Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man: The Final Chapters), Syreeta Singleton (Rap Sh!t), Lawrence Lamont (One of Them Days), Daniel Ings (A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms), Avantika (Not Suitable for Work), Bishal Dutta (It Lives Inside), Emmanuel Osei Kuffour (Shōgun), Kira Kalush (Ghosts), Michele Giannusa (Ripple), Jan Oxenberg (Manhunt), Yuka Kouri (Shōgun), and Suraj Sharma (The Night Agent). Most precocious successful film, they produced TriStar’s drama One of Them Days, starring Keke Palmer and SZA, which debuted astatine #1, some astatine nan container agency upon its January release, and erstwhile it deed Netflix past April.
Mensa will proceed to beryllium represented by Buchwald.
