VIC MENSA AND WHAT A REAL BLACK MAN SOUNDS LIKE

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   Excessive violence and aggression are staples of toxic masculinity – a topic Vic Mensa rapped about when challenging the posthumous idolization of XXXTentacion by his fans. During the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher, Mensa caught a wave of controversy with the lyrics, “We all know you won’t live that long/ I don’t respect s**t posthumously, homicide ain’t new to me/ catch up with Akademiks at your eulogy.”
     Supporters called out Mensa for lacking consideration of the deceased rapper's friends and family, especially XXXTentacion's mother who was in attendance.
     “I had no idea a grieving mother would be in the audience to honor her lost son,”      Supporters called out Mensa for lacking consideration of the deceased rapper's friends and family, especially XXXTentacion's mother who was in attendance.     “I had no idea a grieving mother would be in the audience to honor her lost son,” 

    Pitchfork reported Mensa said in a clip. “However, I vehemently reject the trend in hip-hop of championing abusers, and I will not hold my tongue about it.”  

      "Sometimes it can be hard to have empathy for someone else, until you need God to have empathy for you...When I first said the s**t in the rap, I wasn't having any empathy for the man because I was seeing no humanity in him," he said.

     The late rapper was accused of -- and later heard admitting to -- horrendous acts of domestic violence against his girlfriend...
     While Mensa doesn't regret his lyrics, he does a have an enlightened perspective on violence, and he attributes his new ideology to feminist writer bell hooks...
     “My whole life, I was programmed in that way,” Vic Mensa said during an interview on The Breakfast Club. “When I started to read bell hooks, that’s when I peeped game and started to break down why I was so violent.”
     Her essays highlight the world’s need for feminism and confront the mechanics of gender...

~Blavity.com

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