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

Vic Mensa

Categorized in : Always You Like Way

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

picture look music life

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

only know boots people

I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.

looking future inspiration past

My foundation mainly works in Chicago, and the city needs a lot of help. I'm glad that was able to be incorporated into what I'm doing with Wolverine. It's important to keep one foot firmly planted at home and try to benefit my people well.

city important home people

I just stand by the things I believe in and if that upsets people, which it often does, then we got a situation on our hands. Everybody is okay and safe. I'm just blessed to be awake.

situation blessed believe people

So much of my life and my style and sensibility are influenced by skateboarding. It's counter-culture and skateboarding is my introduction to counter-culture.

my-life style introduction life

Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little kid, I didn't feel fully accepted by black kids and I definitely didn't feel fully accepted by white kids cause I just felt like I could never be neither one.

feel black white people

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

words own my-own different

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

always comfortable bed home