Vic Mensa trades sets on the bench with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan doctor running to become the first Muslim elected to the United States Senate, then takes it inside for a conversation about faith as accountability and the roots of Islamophobia. They talk Arab, Muslim and Black solidarity in Detroit, what it means to speak plainly about Palestine and why Abdul sees American health care as a racket. It all comes back to one question: what would we build if we treated all our kids like all our kids?📱 Follow @vicmensa · @abdulelsayed 🎤 Guest: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed(00:00) Let’s put some plates on(03:27) “A terrorist to the Senate”(06:29) Faith as accountability(11:25) The DNA of Islamophobia(17:13) Henry Ford, Arab Detroit and Motown(20:25) Arab, Muslim and Black solidarity(29:22) Palestine and the price of speaking up(34:35) Top five Detroit artists(37:24) The health care racket(45:51) Getting money out of politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Vic Mensa trades sets on the bench with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan doctor running to become the first Muslim elected to the United States Senate, then takes it inside for a conversation about faith as accountability and the roots of Islamophobia. They talk Arab, Muslim and Black solidarity in Detroit, what it means to speak plainly about Palestine and why Abdul sees American health care as a racket. It all comes back to one question: what would we build if we treated all our kids like all our kids? 📱 Follow @vicmensa · @abdulelsayed 🎤 Guest: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (00:00) Let’s put some plates on (03:27) “A terrorist to the Senate” (06:29) Faith as accountability (11:25) The DNA of Islamophobia (17:13) Henry Ford, Arab Detroit and Motown (20:25) Arab, Muslim and Black solidarity (29:22) Palestine and the price of speaking up (34:35) Top five Detroit artists (37:24) The health care racket (45:51) Getting money out of politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vic Mensa trades sets on the bench with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan doctor running to become the first Muslim elected to the United States Senate, then takes it inside for a conversation about faith as accountability and the roots of Islamophobia. They talk Arab, Muslim and Black solidarity in Detroit, what it means to speak plainly about Palestine and why Abdul sees American health care as a racket. It all comes back to one question: what would we build if we treated all our kids like all our kids?📱 Follow @vicmensa · @abdulelsayed 🎤 Guest: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed(00:00) Let’s put some plates on(03:27) “A terrorist to the Senate”(06:29) Faith as accountability(11:25) The DNA of Islamophobia(17:13) Henry Ford, Arab Detroit and Motown(20:25) Arab, Muslim and Black solidarity(29:22) Palestine and the price of speaking up(34:35) Top five Detroit artists(37:24) The health care racket(45:51) Getting money out of politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Abdul El-Sayed: When Money Talks, The People Pay

Vic sits down with Van Lathan Jr., Oscar-winning producer, CNN panelist, and co-host of Higher Learning, for a conversation about politics, culture and the true cost of freedom. At its heart is an honest reckoning with the Black experience: the price of "earning your humanity" through talent and how one word flattens a whole world of culture, whether you're standing in Chicago, Ghana, or South Africa.📱 Follow @vicmensa · @vanlathan🎤 Guest: Van Lathan Jr.(00:00) Cold open(01:13) Van Jones, Palestine and the price of the invitation(12:13) Reparations, Coates and the white liberals(19:33) The Matrix was a documentary(26:56) Kamala, the aunties and who the party serves(34:46) Whose dead bodies matter(44:15) Get Rich or Die Tryin' and the violence that raised us(01:02:28) Black here, Black in Ghana, Black in South Africa(01:19:23) Boxing, Spike Lee and Mo' Better Blues(01:56:20) TMZ, the headlines and the cost of being watched Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Vic sits down with Van Lathan Jr., Oscar-winning producer, CNN panelist, and co-host of Higher Learning, for a conversation about politics, culture and the true cost of freedom. At its heart is an honest reckoning with the Black experience: the price of "earning your humanity" through talent and how one word flattens a whole world of culture, whether you're standing in Chicago, Ghana, or South Africa. 📱 Follow @vicmensa · @vanlathan 🎤 Guest: Van Lathan Jr. (00:00) Cold open (01:13) Van Jones, Palestine and the price of the invitation (12:13) Reparations, Coates and the white liberals (19:33) The Matrix was a documentary (26:56) Kamala, the aunties and who the party serves (34:46) Whose dead bodies matter (44:15) Get Rich or Die Tryin' and the violence that raised us (01:02:28) Black here, Black in Ghana, Black in South Africa (01:19:23) Boxing, Spike Lee and Mo' Better Blues (01:56:20) TMZ, the headlines and the cost of being watched Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vic sits down with Van Lathan Jr., Oscar-winning producer, CNN panelist, and co-host of Higher Learning, for a conversation about politics, culture and the true cost of freedom. At its heart is an honest reckoning with the Black experience: the price of "earning your humanity" through talent and how one word flattens a whole world of culture, whether you're standing in Chicago, Ghana, or South Africa.📱 Follow @vicmensa · @vanlathan🎤 Guest: Van Lathan Jr.(00:00) Cold open(01:13) Van Jones, Palestine and the price of the invitation(12:13) Reparations, Coates and the white liberals(19:33) The Matrix was a documentary(26:56) Kamala, the aunties and who the party serves(34:46) Whose dead bodies matter(44:15) Get Rich or Die Tryin' and the violence that raised us(01:02:28) Black here, Black in Ghana, Black in South Africa(01:19:23) Boxing, Spike Lee and Mo' Better Blues(01:56:20) TMZ, the headlines and the cost of being watched Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Van Lathan Jr.: Revolutionaries at Equinox

Six days before the midterms, Vic sits down with Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson, the Memphis organizer now running for Congress. They start with Angela Davis and the idea that every revolution meets a counterrevolution. Then they get into the fight over Memphis’s congressional district, Elon Musk’s data centers in Black neighborhoods, the Black church as a base for political power, and why Justin says what this country is short on is not resources but political courage. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd.📱 Follow @vicmensa · @justinjpearson 🎤 Guest: Justin J. PearsonThis episode includes a conversation about suicide. If you're struggling, you're not alone. In the US, call or text 988 anytime.(00:00) Angela Davis and the counterrevolution(04:49) How Tennessee split up Memphis(08:57) "Willing to die for this"(18:18) Zohran, Bowdoin and social reproduction(23:50) Elon Musk's data centers in Memphis(33:36) Knocking on Juicy J's door(35:54) The church and the story of Joseph(44:38) Hair as resistance(49:33) Tyre Nichols and funding the people(01:05:32) Getting big money out of politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Six days before the midterms, Vic sits down with Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson, the Memphis organizer now running for Congress. They start with Angela Davis and the idea that every revolution meets a counterrevolution. Then they get into the fight over Memphis’s congressional district, Elon Musk’s data centers in Black neighborhoods, the Black church as a base for political power, and why Justin says what this country is short on is not resources but political courage. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd. 📱 Follow @vicmensa · @justinjpearson 🎤 Guest: Justin J. Pearson This episode includes a conversation about suicide. If you're struggling, you're not alone. In the US, call or text 988 anytime. (00:00) Angela Davis and the counterrevolution (04:49) How Tennessee split up Memphis (08:57) "Willing to die for this" (18:18) Zohran, Bowdoin and social reproduction (23:50) Elon Musk's data centers in Memphis (33:36) Knocking on Juicy J's door (35:54) The church and the story of Joseph (44:38) Hair as resistance (49:33) Tyre Nichols and funding the people (01:05:32) Getting big money out of politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Six days before the midterms, Vic sits down with Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson, the Memphis organizer now running for Congress. They start with Angela Davis and the idea that every revolution meets a counterrevolution. Then they get into the fight over Memphis’s congressional district, Elon Musk’s data centers in Black neighborhoods, the Black church as a base for political power, and why Justin says what this country is short on is not resources but political courage. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd.📱 Follow @vicmensa · @justinjpearson 🎤 Guest: Justin J. PearsonThis episode includes a conversation about suicide. If you're struggling, you're not alone. In the US, call or text 988 anytime.(00:00) Angela Davis and the counterrevolution(04:49) How Tennessee split up Memphis(08:57) "Willing to die for this"(18:18) Zohran, Bowdoin and social reproduction(23:50) Elon Musk's data centers in Memphis(33:36) Knocking on Juicy J's door(35:54) The church and the story of Joseph(44:38) Hair as resistance(49:33) Tyre Nichols and funding the people(01:05:32) Getting big money out of politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Justin J. Pearson: Billionaires vs. Everybody

Vic Mensa sits down with Grammy-Award winning rapper, activist and entrepreneur Killer Mike inside Chairman Fred Hampton's childhood home, the Hampton House. They get into the Black Panther Party's legacy, Cuba and Haiti, growing up with police in the family, Cop City, and the "move like a capitalist" line that turned Mike into a meme. Mike breaks down what "by any means necessary" means to him, from his great-grandparents' farm in Tuskegee to his relationship with Governor Brian Kemp, and lays out a plan to fund the movement one small donation at a time, starting with the Hampton House.
Donate to save the Hampton House: https://donorbox.org/save-the-hampton-house
Follow @vicmensa · @killermike
 
(00:00) Cold open
(00:38) Inside Fred Hampton's childhood home
(02:24) The Panthers, free breakfast and education
(05:08) Cuba, Haiti and the cost of sanctions
(07:15) Always prepared
(09:13) Cops in the family, Red Dogs on the block
(16:18) Cop City and the battles worth fighting
(22:18) Same oppressor: Black America and the diaspora
(28:25) "Move like a capitalist"
(38:38) Jared Ball and the trillion-dollar myth
(45:16) Tulsa, Rosewood and organizing the South
(48:57) From sharecroppers to landowners
(54:30) Brian Kemp and staying in the room
(1:03:01) A million people, ten dollars a month
(1:05:19) A revolutionary act every day
 
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Vic Mensa sits down with Grammy-Award winning rapper, activist and entrepreneur Killer Mike inside Chairman Fred Hampton's childhood home, the Hampton House. They get into the Black Panther Party's legacy, Cuba and Haiti, growing up with police in the family, Cop City, and the "move like a capitalist" line that turned Mike into a meme. Mike breaks down what "by any means necessary" means to him, from his great-grandparents' farm in Tuskegee to his relationship with Governor Brian Kemp, and lays out a plan to fund the movement one small donation at a time, starting with the Hampton House. Donate to save the Hampton House: https://donorbox.org/save-the-hampton-house Follow @vicmensa · @killermike (00:00) Cold open (00:38) Inside Fred Hampton's childhood home (02:24) The Panthers, free breakfast and education (05:08) Cuba, Haiti and the cost of sanctions (07:15) Always prepared (09:13) Cops in the family, Red Dogs on the block (16:18) Cop City and the battles worth fighting (22:18) Same oppressor: Black America and the diaspora (28:25) "Move like a capitalist" (38:38) Jared Ball and the trillion-dollar myth (45:16) Tulsa, Rosewood and organizing the South (48:57) From sharecroppers to landowners (54:30) Brian Kemp and staying in the room (1:03:01) A million people, ten dollars a month (1:05:19) A revolutionary act every day Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vic Mensa sits down with Grammy-Award winning rapper, activist and entrepreneur Killer Mike inside Chairman Fred Hampton's childhood home, the Hampton House. They get into the Black Panther Party's legacy, Cuba and Haiti, growing up with police in the family, Cop City, and the "move like a capitalist" line that turned Mike into a meme. Mike breaks down what "by any means necessary" means to him, from his great-grandparents' farm in Tuskegee to his relationship with Governor Brian Kemp, and lays out a plan to fund the movement one small donation at a time, starting with the Hampton House.
Donate to save the Hampton House: https://donorbox.org/save-the-hampton-house
Follow @vicmensa · @killermike
 
(00:00) Cold open
(00:38) Inside Fred Hampton's childhood home
(02:24) The Panthers, free breakfast and education
(05:08) Cuba, Haiti and the cost of sanctions
(07:15) Always prepared
(09:13) Cops in the family, Red Dogs on the block
(16:18) Cop City and the battles worth fighting
(22:18) Same oppressor: Black America and the diaspora
(28:25) "Move like a capitalist"
(38:38) Jared Ball and the trillion-dollar myth
(45:16) Tulsa, Rosewood and organizing the South
(48:57) From sharecroppers to landowners
(54:30) Brian Kemp and staying in the room
(1:03:01) A million people, ten dollars a month
(1:05:19) A revolutionary act every day
 
 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Killer Mike: By Any Means Necessary

Imagine getting so high and thinking… I am the internet. Vic Mensa sits down and takes us through the Innanet Tape era, circa 2013. The who, the what and the whys of how this project was created, friendships gained and lost, and what doors creating this work of art opened for him as an artist. Now, in 2026, The Innanet Tapes will be released on DSPs and streaming everywhere, on September 30th. Check it out.📱 Follow @vicmensa(00:00) Cold open(00:32) Kids These Days and the breakup(04:59) Do or die: the first solo project(08:48) The Chicago blueprint: Common, Kanye and Lupe(11:13) Independent then and now(12:56) The cover art(14:27) Finally on streaming(16:57) Why orange?(17:57) Reading the liner notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Imagine getting so high and thinking… I am the internet. Vic Mensa sits down and takes us through the Innanet Tape era, circa 2013. The who, the what and the whys of how this project was created, friendships gained and lost, and what doors creating this work of art opened for him as an artist. Now, in 2026, The Innanet Tapes will be released on DSPs and streaming everywhere, on September 30th. Check it out. 📱 Follow @vicmensa (00:00) Cold open (00:32) Kids These Days and the breakup (04:59) Do or die: the first solo project (08:48) The Chicago blueprint: Common, Kanye and Lupe (11:13) Independent then and now (12:56) The cover art (14:27) Finally on streaming (16:57) Why orange? (17:57) Reading the liner notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Imagine getting so high and thinking… I am the internet. Vic Mensa sits down and takes us through the Innanet Tape era, circa 2013. The who, the what and the whys of how this project was created, friendships gained and lost, and what doors creating this work of art opened for him as an artist. Now, in 2026, The Innanet Tapes will be released on DSPs and streaming everywhere, on September 30th. Check it out.📱 Follow @vicmensa(00:00) Cold open(00:32) Kids These Days and the breakup(04:59) Do or die: the first solo project(08:48) The Chicago blueprint: Common, Kanye and Lupe(11:13) Independent then and now(12:56) The cover art(14:27) Finally on streaming(16:57) Why orange?(17:57) Reading the liner notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

INNANETAPE: Thirteen Years of Loading

Vic Mensa has done it all. Music with Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Jay-Z. Roles on Showtime's The Chi and Peacock's Bel-Air. And a fervor for speaking hard truths, even if the world isn't ready. What some saw as a problem turned out to be his purpose. His award-winning Orange Tree Series is now The Vic Mensa Show, a video-first sit-down at the intersection of politics and culture. Stories over statistics. Roast the powerful, never the victim. He is the format. New episodes every Wednesday starting August 26, available wherever you get your podcasts. Pull up. 
 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Vic Mensa has done it all. Music with Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Jay-Z. Roles on Showtime's The Chi and Peacock's Bel-Air. And a fervor for speaking hard truths, even if the world isn't ready. What some saw as a problem turned out to be his purpose. His award-winning Orange Tree Series is now The Vic Mensa Show, a video-first sit-down at the intersection of politics and culture. Stories over statistics. Roast the powerful, never the victim. He is the format. New episodes every Wednesday starting August 26, available wherever you get your podcasts. Pull up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vic Mensa has done it all. Music with Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Jay-Z. Roles on Showtime's The Chi and Peacock's Bel-Air. And a fervor for speaking hard truths, even if the world isn't ready. What some saw as a problem turned out to be his purpose. His award-winning Orange Tree Series is now The Vic Mensa Show, a video-first sit-down at the intersection of politics and culture. Stories over statistics. Roast the powerful, never the victim. He is the format. New episodes every Wednesday starting August 26, available wherever you get your podcasts. Pull up. 
 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="noopener noreferrer">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

The Vic Mensa Show (Official Trailer)

Vic Mensa has done it all. Music with Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Jay-Z. Roles on Showtime's The Chi and Peacock's Bel-Air. And a fervor for speaking hard truths, even if the world isn't ready. What some saw as a problem turned out to be his purpose. His award-winning Orange Tree Series is now The Vic Mensa Show, a video-first sit-down at the intersection of politics and culture. Stories over statistics. Roast the powerful, never the victim. He is the format. New episodes every Wednesday starting August 26, wherever you get your podcasts. Pull up.

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