Vic Mensa

I don't want only young black people that listen to my music be able to appreciate it. I just want people to…

— Vic Mensa

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

— Vic Mensa

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

— Vic Mensa

I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different…

— Vic Mensa

I always try to take performances as an opportunity to implant my spirit into the hearts and minds of anyone in a…

— Vic Mensa

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in…

— Vic Mensa

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

— Vic Mensa

But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice.…

— Vic Mensa

I like the story about Bon Iver. They said he kept his GRAMMY in, like, the basement bathroom so he could just…

— Vic Mensa

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's…

— Vic Mensa

I just like Kodak Black. I feel like he's pretty self-aware, even if I don't agree with all the things he says.

— Vic Mensa

To be an American is to be indoctrinated with racism, violence, capitalism and manifest destiny, the principles upon which the land of…

— Vic Mensa

No I.D. is like an alchemist and he'll only give you so much at one time. It's for the best at the…

— Vic Mensa

So whether that's taking a bunch of people from Chicago down to Standing Rock or being in Flint, Michigan, or being in…

— Vic Mensa

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

— Vic Mensa

On family trips and vacations, I remember walking around with my little sister and making funny songs on the spot.

— Vic Mensa

I just love The Cure. I think that their songwriting is so next level, and I really like the juxtaposition between this…

— Vic Mensa

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a…

— Vic Mensa

I never look at it as if any of my successes were given to me through fate. Getting record deals, making the…

— Vic Mensa

I'm really into vintage clothes. So I've been... vintage shopping and kind of adding and reconstructing things and just doing a little…

— Vic Mensa

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political…

— Vic Mensa

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

— Vic Mensa

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a…

— Vic Mensa

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

— Vic Mensa

I might have 'couch syndrome.' I'm always sleeping on the couch at home, even when I have a comfortable bed. I'm used…

— Vic Mensa