Vic Mensa, Aloe Blacc, Madame Gandhi, and more appear on a new benefit album titled Defund the Sheriff. Created in collaboration with and produced by JusticeLA, Schools Not Prisons, Question Culture, and Reform LA Jails, the record is part of a larger #DefundTheSheriff campaign calling on Los Angeles County to divest resources from policing and incarceration toward community safety, education, mental health resources, affordable housing, and drug treatment.
Defund the Sheriff (The Album) is executive produced by Mike de la Rocha and Richie Reseda. Learn more at JusticeLA and listen to Defund the Sheriff (The Album) below.
“The prison industrial complex of The Divided States of America is one of the greatest stains ever to blemish the bloody flag that is America,” Vic Mensa said in a statement. “The sheriff is little more than the militarized arm of this oppressive system; it is our duty as revolutionaries to challenge and dismantle white supremacy to the furthest extent possible within our lifetimes, by any and all means necessary.”
Defund the Sheriff (The Album):
01 Vic Mensa / Lauren Jauregui / Richie Reseda: “Largest Jail System on Earth”
02 Jack Davey: “Who Are You?”
03 Avery Blackman: “Black Is Beautiful”
04 Indigo Mateo: “Here Rn”
05 Aja Monet / Richie Reseda: “There is Another Way”
06 Vic Mensa / Noelle Scaggs / Richie Reseda: “The Caging of Los Angeles”
07 EMANON: “Shine Your Light”
08 Ceci Bastida: “En Las Noches”
09 Vic Mensa / Richie Reseda: “Most Murderous Sheriff’s Department in America”
10 88: “Kings In Chains”
11 Akeishein / Richie Reseda: “Breathe With Intention”
12 Madame Gandhi: “Gandhi Blues (Gizzle Remix)” [ft. Gizzle]
13 Mystic: “Beautiful Resistance”
14 XXX: “Weak and High” [ft. Rain Phoenix]
15 Maya Jupiter: “Crumble”
16 Vic Mensa / Joey Dosik / Richie Reseda: “Deporting Freedom”
17 ON/NOTICE: “Lies”