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

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• Vic Mensa:

  I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I

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  The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exa

• Vic Mensa:

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  Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to n

• Vic Mensa:

  I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizat

• Vic Mensa:

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• Vic Mensa:

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

• Vic Mensa:

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

• Vic Mensa:

  I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or

• Vic Mensa:

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