Vic Mensa broadcasts protest live performance at ICE headquarters
Of their video for “Camp America”, Vic Mensa and his 93PUNX band took a powerful stand towards ICE detention facilities. Now, the Chicago rapper is taking his activism on the highway by staging a “Fuck I.C.E.” protest live performance at ICE’s Los Angeles headquarters on Monday, September 1st.
“@93punx guerrilla efficiency at I.C.E. headquarters in LA monday 4pm meet me there,” Mensa wrote on Instagram on Thursday. The hooked up flyer (seen beneath) says, “Fuck ICE! for da Youngsters”, and includes a banner that reads, “Rock for Kids’s Rights”.
Mensa has lengthy been an outspoken activist each in his music and on the streets. The Autobiography rapper beforehand protested towards police brutality and advocated for racial equality. He not too long ago signed a Deliberate Parenthood letter protesting the latest surge of anti-abortion legal guidelines.
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Nevertheless, Donald Trump’s “household separation coverage” and ICE facilities have been Mensa’s predominant focus as of late. His “Camp America” visible reimagined detention facilities as precise summer time camps stuffed particularly with white (dabbing) kids.
“I believed that was a loopy fucking thought and wished to create a world with this track that imagined that twisted alternate actuality, the place it was enjoyable for teenagers to be held as prisoners, consuming out of bogs, away from their mother and father, and in some way take pleasure in it like one would possibly at a summer time camp,” Mensa instructed The Day by day Beast, including:
“My intention for utilizing white children versus minority kids is to level out the blatantly apparent indisputable fact that this is able to by no means occur to white children on this nation or perhaps wherever on this earth. Though the character of the actions the children have been concerned in was graphic or surprising, it was all taken from precise occurrences reported at ‘detention’ facilities.”
In an interview with Consequence of Sound final 12 months, Mensa mentioned talking up on behalf of his neighborhood is an “inspirational necessity” and one of many predominant explanation why he creates music within the first place. “To attach with those that I do know greatest, to inform their story,” he shared.
“Camp America” seems on 93PUNX’s self-titled debut album, which hit cabinets simply final week. Mensa has different non-protest live performance dates developing subsequent month, and tickets might be bought right here.
Revisit “Camp America” beneath.