The rapper and singer who caused conservative outrage with his impassioned Camp America video talks about why he’s decided to take a stand
A group of children downing pills and drinking toilet water behind bars makes for uneasy, provocative imagery in the video for Camp America, the debut single from Vic Mensa’s politically charged new project dubbed 93PUNX. A song meant to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (Ice) controversial network of detention camps and their policy of separating children from their parents, it’s part of a new direction for the rapper both lyrically and musically.
“There was one particular comment made by Matthew Albence that inspired the song,” Mensa says from his label Roc Nation’s New York City headquarters of the current deputy director of Ice. “He said that immigrant detention centers were more like a summer camp than a prison. It was obviously an extremely disrespectful and offensive distinction, but I also found it to be really interesting in a dark way.”
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