Vic Mensa

You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.

— Vic Mensa

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

— Vic Mensa

By nature I can be a confrontational person. I don't feel like there's anything wrong with that.

— Vic Mensa

I can remember being a young kid, twelve, thirteen years old just with my headphones on, on the train, listening to rappers…

— Vic Mensa

I started taking my mental health seriously, really working with a therapist and a psychiatrist.

— Vic Mensa

Because many people deny the Palestinian struggle. They deny them everything. They deny them humanity, they deny them the right to be…

— Vic Mensa

My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement…

— Vic Mensa

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in…

— Vic Mensa

I'm one of the only people I know that often sleeps in boots.

— Vic Mensa

That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in…

— Vic Mensa

I just thought I could broaden my impact and my reach by starting a non-profit and putting investment into our community.

— Vic Mensa

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be…

— Vic Mensa

Hip-hop has always been speaking about the way your brain is manipulated by stress and struggle because hip-hop is borne from struggle.

— Vic Mensa

I think that everybody has their own interpretations of what it means to be American. But from my vantage point, being black…

— Vic Mensa

I'm not motivated by money or fame. I'm more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the…

— Vic Mensa

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring…

— Vic Mensa

Every time Emma Gonzalez speaks, I listen.

— Vic Mensa

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And…

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And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,…

— Vic Mensa

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew…

— Vic Mensa

Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.

— Vic Mensa

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

— Vic Mensa

I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.

— Vic Mensa

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about…

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I just stand by the things I believe in and if that upsets people, which it often does, then we got a…

— Vic Mensa