Vic Mensa relies on Apple's Voice Memos app to capture ideas before they slip away, the rapper and actor said in a questionnaire interview. Mensa described the app as the starting point for everything he works on, including songs, essay concepts, thoughts he associates with his orange tree, late-night voice notes to himself, and remarks from his son he wants to preserve. He said that although his phone functions as a rectangle full of distractions, Voice Memos remains one of the few features that still feels honest to him, and that he opens it and presses record before a thought disappears.

Mensa's answer came in the context of his wide-ranging career. His debut mixtape Innanetape reached major streaming services for the first time in September, and he is also known for the house-influenced single "Down On My Luck." He has acting credits on The Chi and Bel-Air, hosts The Vic Mensa Show podcast, and is known for his activism and social media presence.

Instagram, Mensa said, is where his public voice developed. He began by peeling an orange while talking through whatever was on his mind, and the approach grew into an ongoing conversation with people about politics, history, music, grief, jokes and fatherhood. That response, he said, showed him there was room for his podcast as well. He acknowledged that Instagram can be chaotic but called it a valuable tool for connection.

Asked what he would remove from technology, Mensa pointed to Meta's smart glasses, saying they appear to be used for harmful purposes. He also named his upcoming album as the project exciting him most, describing it as the first album on which he has taken himself completely seriously as a producer. He said the surrounding art, videos, design, clothing and world he is building around the record also energize him.

Mensa described a routine that combines two breathing and meditation practices. He said he either performs the Shambhavi Mahamudra meditation he learned from Sadhguru or the Wim Hof breathing method, and that his ideal version is the Wim Hof method in a steam room followed by the meditation.

The interview was published as part of a weekend questionnaire series. For a US technology audience, Mensa's comments put an Apple-built recording tool at the center of a creative workflow that spans music, writing, podcasting and family life, and they add a public figure's skepticism toward Meta's smart glasses.

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