Vic Mensa, Lauren Jauregui, Aloe Blacc & More Record Defund The Sheriff Album for LA Campaign – Billboard
Vic Mensa, Lauren Jauregui, Aloe Blacc and more lent their voices to Defund The Sheriff (The Album), a musical compilation tied to the campaign to defund the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and allocate those funds to other local resources.
JusticeLA, #SchoolsNotPrisons, Question Culture and Reform LA Jails produced Defund The Sheriff, which criminal justice speaker and musician Mike de la Rocha and formerly incarcerated Question Culture CEO Richie Reseda executive produced. The 17-track LP arrives in time with local campaigns to invest in alternatives to incarceration as LA County pushes to construct two new jails with a $3.5 billion budget, so these artists are applying pressure to scrap the project with their very own.
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