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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Vic Mensa: The Power of Perspective

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Trevor, Eugene, and David Kibuuka sit down with musician Vic Mensa for a conversation that moves easily between humor and hard truth. Drawing on his own experiences, Vic brings a raw, personal lens to topics like identity, privacy, and the strange contradictions of modern culture. As the conversation unfolds, it becomes a candid look at the gap between how we’re seen and who we actually are—and how much that perspective can shift depending on where you’re standing.

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0:00.0

The worst thing about being robbed by somebody on a bicycle is that it's a very, it's a very whimsical way to be robbed.

0:12.7

Do you know what I mean?

0:13.7

Because like if you get robbed at gunpoint, it makes you feel like you were part of something meaningful.

0:20.6

Something extreme.

0:21.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:22.3

So if someone pulls out a gun and they're like, give me, give me your phone, give me your wallet. No, but even after it happens, let's say if people were watching you, there's a certain amount of bravado that you get to maintain. For surviving a gunshot. Wow, man, I can't believe you got robbed. I saw what happened and you were there and you had to put your hands up and the person or even a knife, you know, you don't mean.

0:37.9

Yeah.

0:38.2

When you get robbed by somebody on a bicycle, it is one of, because just think of a bicycle and then the person grabs your phone. You said you were on a FaceTime. Yes. So now they're on a FaceTime with this person. I never thought about that. So one minute, you as Vick are like, man, let me tell you what I'm doing out here.

0:54.3

Let me tell you what I'm doing out here.

0:56.0

Let me tell you what I'm doing out here.

1:00.6

This is What Now with Trevor Noah.

1:09.1

The next. Trevor Noah.

1:19.7

You know what happened yesterday.

1:24.1

So I unintentionally bought a new iPhone.

1:25.9

Wait, before you guys carry on.

2:34.2

Can I just say you guys look like you got the same style memo? And then I was excluded from this? When are you think I don't research? So you dress like this for Vick? South African version. I was like, if I find an orange, the guests will never know the difference. You know, we should have got, I don't, I don't know if you, if this is because of you. I don't want to say it's because of you. And I haven't forgotten the iPhone thing. We're going to come back to it. I have experienced an extreme citrus craving. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not, I, yo, he, okay, he's my witness because he sees my fridge. My fridge always has watermelon in it. Always, always, always. Now, I have copious amounts of citrus. And I wonder, I genuinely wonder if it's partly because of you. You'll never get sick. Yeah, but I just wonder if like you've sort of, you know. Subconsciously influenced. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've created like a... I need to get a royalty from the citrus companies. You probably could get sponsored by like big orange or something. And after they can go to avocados. That's the real money. Can you imagine, Vic, pulling an avocado off the tree? That's not what the tree would be. Pulling an avocado. It's the real money. Can you imagine, Vic, pulling an avocado off the tree?

2:35.3

First of all, the tree would be.

2:53.1

Pulling an avocado of the tree. It's the real bread. The avocado. You have to get a knife. No, no, no. No. He still has to use his hands. He'll be mashed all over the place. Smeared on my face. And then you know once an avocado gets exposed turns brown And then you've been there for long

2:54.3

Nasty smeared on my face.

2:54.0

And then you know once an avocado gets exposed turns brown and then you've been there for long.

2:54.4

Nasty.

2:55.2

Now, you can only talk about short topics.

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