“That's one thing I can't lose: I can't lose the realness in my music.” — Vic Mensa

I wanted to go to a place with my first album that was just to the root, to the heart of emotion, and just unbridled by anything that wasn't truly in my heart.

And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration, I think that the fear of immigration that has existed in American history from the first day, I just find it to be wrong.

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.