Vic Mensa’s Domestic Abuse Allegations Surface After XXXTentacion Jab, Twitter Reacts

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Vic Mensa caught a ton of flack for a line rapped during the BET Hip Hop Awards cypher where he took a shot at the late XXXTentacion, then doubled down on his stances against domestic abuse. Despite apologizing for the jab, domestic abuse allegations that Vic Mensa himself rapped about in times past have surfaced and fans on Twitter are blasting the Chicago artist.

Mensa’s cypher lines were shared to the Miami audience at the BET Hip Hop awards show taping last weekend, and XXX’s mother was also in attendance. Mensa took to Instagram to apologize to XXX’s mother but stood tall on the fact that he’s against domestic abusers. But fans dug up an older interview Mensa did with The Breakfast Club where he admitted to choking a former girlfriend and even wrote a song about it.

Since the news has resurfaced, fans on Twitter have been ripping Vic Mensa apart. We’ve collected some of the responses in the gallery below.

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How do you choke your girlfriend out and write an entire song about it, then proceed to “condemn” rappers that have committed domestic abuse? Vic Mensa really the oddest rap nigga in existence. Bozo.
— Toshinori (@DreamCast_K) October 9, 2018

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Hip-Hop Twitter is going to see Vic Mensa’s little speech and go “didn’t he choke his girlfriend?” When they should really go “why is he being mean to dead kids?” #BET
— Gary (@iGSPZ) October 8, 2018

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@VicMensa didn’t you choke your girlfriend a few years ago??? Also, dissing a rapper not famed for the fake allegation but for his changes and music which inspiried and helped people through tough times was uncalled for. You’re not a man for this.
— cornhubdad (@cornhubdad) October 9, 2018

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When Russ see the hate start to switch to Vic Mensa pic.twitter.com/3od3okUP81
— noah👀👻 (@astroyeezy) October 13, 2018

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Bruh X used to fight like he was in an anime, my man woulda fucking hadoukened Vic Mensa into the shadow realm
— 666fuckthecops (@666fuckthecops) October 10, 2018

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Somebody said Vic Mensa learned from his mistakes and addressed abuse but... X did the same thing while he was alive and they’re still bashing him. He was literally turning his life around. People don’t even know what happened and they still bash him.
— 亀悟 (@totinabelcher) October 11, 2018

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Vic Mensa calling Xxxtentacion an abuser pic.twitter.com/fZbfbsrtHv
— kopano. (@Kopanooooo) October 11, 2018

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Vic Mensa disses XXX in front of his mom at a vigil, Quavo disses Lil Peep on a track MONTHS after his death.

y'all really THIS desperate for fucking attention?????????
— the mexican blue shirt rowdyruff boy (@lowkey_santa) October 12, 2018

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Quavo dissed Lil Peep so he’s now officially added to my Russ and Vic Mensa catergory of corniest niggas in Rap.
— MARYLAND MANSON (@BreezyxSupreme) October 12, 2018

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When you have to explain Quavo and Vic Mensa that dissing dead people ain’t cool pic.twitter.com/BMtxEO1q0o
— liluzivertical (@raptalk5) October 12, 2018

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lol everyone’s real mad at vic mensa but not mad at abuse okay got it very cool !
— Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun) October 13, 2018

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sooooo... vic mensa called x an abuser in front of his grieving mother even though he wrote a song about choking a girl. gotcha https://t.co/JXFrfDe1bv
— adam22 (@adam22) October 7, 2018

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@VicMensa didn’t you choke out your girlfriend? All you hip hop weirdos who do this “I’m here to change the culture.” Need to look at yourselves. It’s a glass house y’all livin in I don’t get how y’all dare throw stones knowing what you’ve done. https://t.co/P7uqulo5JQ
— 🗣 (@RamBoutIt) October 8, 2018

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i understand people can change and i could 100% be wrong but i just don’t understand how something that happened not that long ago is forgiven so quickly bc he’s an outspoken activist. i just don’t wanna pretend “woke” people can’t be abusers too
— rat 🐀🐀🐀 (@maddydamm) October 10, 2018

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i thought vic mensa openly addressed his abusive past, got counseling, and did that whole thing
— Xavier D'Leau (@XavierDLeau) October 12, 2018