Vic Mensa has released the music video to his Travis Barker-produced single as 93PUNX, “3 Years Sober.” The video was directed by Vic himself along with Franc Fernandez, and it’s quite the eye-catcher. As the press release notes, it includes visual references to John Waters, To Wong Foo With Love…, Twin Peaks, and BBQ Becky among others. Sexual, violent, and police abuse all get some screen time here.
The Chicago artist tackles identity, dressing in drag and wearing a confederate flag dress to showcase the abuse that surround this kind of iconography people carry around. Mensa said the following in the song’s press release:
The ‘3 Years Sober’ video is a statement about identity. I put on a confederate flag dress to be able to laugh at a symbol of hate, and played tug of war with Mike Pence over birth control. I had my face written on to get ahead of everything I know people will say about me and had a diner full of BBQ Becky’s call the police on me for using the women’s bathroom. I know some in hip hop culture will see this and say ‘Vic‘s gay’ (which I’m not), whereas if I was white they’d just say ‘he’s a rockstar.’ 93PUNX is about being yourself, fuck what people think.
Check it out above.
