A biography for Vic Mensahasn’t been written yet.
“I wanted to go to a place with my first album that was just to the root, to the heart of emotion, and just unbridled by anything that wasn't truly in my heart.”
“I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a place of selfishness, but I'm also cognizant of potential impact on others. And I try to make that impact positive.”
“You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old.”
“You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.”
“Nirvana is my favourite band.”
“I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.”
“I'm not motivated by money or fame. I'm more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.”
“I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.”
“To be an American is to be indoctrinated with racism, violence, capitalism and manifest destiny, the principles upon which the land of the free was founded.”
“I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.”
“I'm really into vintage clothes. So I've been... vintage shopping and kind of adding and reconstructing things and just doing a little bit of designing.”
“Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.”
“The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.”
“By nature I can be a confrontational person. I don't feel like there's anything wrong with that.”
“I'm one of the only people I know that often sleeps in boots.”