Vic Mensa has raised his voice against police violence with his “16 Shots” single, a tribute to Laquan McDonald, a Chicago teenager who was killed after being shot 16 times by an officer.
The Roc Nation signee posted a story on Snapchat yesterday detailing his own run-in with law enforcement after officers apparently accused him and his friends of theft.
“Tired of dealing with these motherfuckers over here just giving a nigga trouble for all types of stupid shit,” he says in a series of posts. “I go in Barneys and spend four racks and get accused of stealing. This pussy-ass motherfucker over here, man, talk about we stole some shit. They don’t even know where we stole some shit from, but they think we stole some shit.”
Mensa further details his shopping trip to help explain the situation.
“The craziest part about it is that I just went, bought some Yves Saint Laurent boots,” he says, moving the camera to his shoes, “some other shit from Barneys and we get pulled out the fucking car…on top of that, they don’t even know what they think we stole.”
The 23-year-old has been working hard to raise awareness about social injustice. Besides “16 Shots,” his There’s Alot Going On EP features “Dark Blue,” a song about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. He also released the “Free Love” single about LGBT rights.
“This shit be funny, but really, I got shit to do, you can’t be a young Black man out here doing anything legal, positive and you still get treated like a criminal,” he continues on Snapchat.
Mensa moves the camera to show an officer and gives his case for his innocence.
“We don’t have to steal shit, man,” he says. “We could buy nicer shit than you buy your wife for her right now.
The day wasn’t all negative for Mensa. He performed a show at The Roxy and brought out Raury and fellow Savemoney members Towkio and Joey Purp during the sold-out show. He then partied at Ohm nightclub.
“You guys need to read more books,” he tells his Snapchat audience while vibing to Yo Gotti’s “The Law.”
Check out the video, as well as some screenshots from the Snapchat story, below.
Well he is black, so……….
I’m going to listen toone of this guys songs one day, one day. AnybOdy got any suggestions?
Any of the one’s where he ain’t on em
He lucked out being a no talent idiot is not a crime.
My 11 year old kid sister could easily beat the shit out of this moron.
Cornball Alert! *SIRENS*
Another deleted comment by the most worthless journalist in the history of the world victoria hernandez lets see how many times this dumb bitch throws out slang terms she dont get or how many times she takes a hit off ol baldy in daddys pants paying for her student loans for a worthless career this week as the dumbest journalist in american history do the world a favor cut your fingers off go on some teeny bop site and post about drake vic mensa and uzi vert and the other corny ass talentless crap you are always posting about but then again birds of a feather right
¨look i am a thug now, i have problems with the law and everything, just like tupac¨ motherfucka gets questiond about something simple like a routin check and he gets pussy about it