I’m never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me. Vic Mensa Read Quote
You can live an entire lifetime in Chicago and not hear a gunshot, but if you go in a certain neighborhood then you can live your whole lifetime hearing gunshots all the time. Vic Mensa Read Quote
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. Vic Mensa Read Quote
I like the story about Bon Iver. They said he kept his GRAMMY in, like, the basement bathroom so he could just focus on getting another one. If I won a GRAMMY, I’d probably keep it at my mom’s house on 47th Street. Vic Mensa Read Quote
I’d be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I’m doing at all. And it hurt, it hurt badly. I knew every day that I couldn’t continue this way. Vic Mensa Read Quote
I don’t love America; I love people and places in America. How could I truly love an entity that views me as subhuman, that wrote in its constitution for me to be considered three-fifths of a person? Vic Mensa Read Quote
But I love Chicago summers on Lake Michigan, Philly cheesesteaks on South Street, falling in love in Brooklyn, street fairs in Asheville, North Carolina. Vic Mensa Read Quote
I love putting in work for the city that raised me with my foundation SaveMoneySaveLife, and putting resources into the streets of Chicago. Vic Mensa Read Quote