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Vic Mensa used every second of his time on Jimmy Kimmel Live to drive home a message about voting and police brutality. 

Mensa’s politically-charged single “16 Shots” is running neck-and-neck with YG’s “F*ck Donald Trump” for the most “woke” song of the year. The song explicitly calls out police brutality and racism and forces listeners to relive the Chicago police shooting of 17-year old Laquan McDonald.

Mensa interpolated the music video during his performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live as he rapped surrounded by police officers looking like something out of your favorite dystopian fiction novel.

It doesn’t look like the audience was ready for that. Nor were they ready for the part when Mensa stopped the song to deliver a heartfelt speech that will make you cry tears of anger.

He says:

“I’m a young black man from Chicago, and I’m tired of not being able to trust the police. I want to have faith in the men and women sworn to protect me. I don’t want to see another 17-year-old kid like Laquan McDonald murdered in the street. So when I hear a candidate talking about ‘law and order’ and ‘stop and frisk is the answer to our problems’—you don’t know our problems in Chicago, and you damn sure don’t speak for us. Tomorrow we have the biggest election of our lifetime, so you gotta get out and vote against hate, because Donald Trump is a racist and if you don’t vote, racism wins.”

Good sh*t, Vic Mensa. Do you think he will get invited back to perform next year?

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