Vic Mensa

Everyone's life is for sale in America.

— Vic Mensa

I really make music from the heart.

— Vic Mensa

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

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Nirvana is my favourite band.

— Vic Mensa

Every time Emma Gonzalez speaks, I listen.

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

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

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Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he's the real King of Pop.

— Vic Mensa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then…

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

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

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

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You can go into a psychiatrist sometimes and just feel that this person's only role and their only desire is to write…

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You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most…

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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,…

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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…

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

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My foundation mainly works in Chicago, and the city needs a lot of help. I'm glad that was able to be incorporated…

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I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters.…

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

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We've got a lot of love from Chicago, you know we've been selling out big venues in Chicago that other people don't…

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

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Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me…

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

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I had white family members, black family members, white friends, black friends by the time I was 16.

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

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I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

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

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

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Wings' was my moment to free myself from everything that was destroying me.

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

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

— Vic Mensa